General Shield
Cybersecurity by General Federal Industries
General Shield checks business websites and technology from the outside: the same doors, windows, and signals a stranger can see. Then we explain what we found in plain English — what it means, and how to fix it.
Every scan runs only on systems the client owns, and only after a signed authorization. No authorization, no scan, ever. That is not fine print. It is the foundation of the whole service.
Three ways to know where your website stands. All three are offered at founding-client pricing while we take on our first clients — one price, everything included, no hidden fees.
A free first look at the signals anyone on the internet can already see: your security headers, your encryption (TLS), and whether your email is protected against impersonation. Quick, honest, and a good place to start.
Its limits, plainly: Public signals only — what anyone can see from the street. It does not test passwords, logins, or anything behind your door.
The full check — open doors, exposed services, outdated signals, and the public weak spots — written up in a report a business owner can actually read. Every finding says what we found, what it means, and how to fix it. No jargon walls.
Websites change, and new problems show up quietly. Monthly Watch re-checks your site on a schedule and flags new issues early, so a small fix never gets the chance to become a bad week.
Before we offered this to anyone, we pointed the machine at ourselves — our own platform and our own website — and published what it said.
C → D
Our CRM platform graded C on the first version of the engine. When the stronger second version learned to map open ports and services, it found more surface on our own house — and the grade dropped to D. Nobody here softened the number.
F
Our public company website scored lower still — an F — partly because its hosting platform does not let owners set the protections our scanner looks for. We say so plainly, because that is the job.
Our machine grades us harder as it gets smarter. It will do the same for you — honestly.
Security is often sold with scary statistics. Here are three real ones — quoted the careful way, with their sources named and their limits stated, because that is how we work.
88%
Ransomware was involved in 88% of the small and mid-sized business breaches Verizon analysed in its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Note the wording: 88% of the breaches — not 88% of businesses — versus 39% at large organisations.
Source: Verizon DBIR 2025.
43%
43% of UK businesses identified a cyber breach or attack in the previous 12 months, most of them phishing. The same survey series' stricter cybercrime measure is 19% — the 43% counts phishing attempts, including emails nobody opened. Both numbers are true; they measure different things.
Source: UK Government Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025.
2 in 3
Only 34% of small and mid-sized businesses do vulnerability scanning, and only 32% do penetration testing — so roughly two-thirds have no regular check of what the internet can see of them.
Source: VikingCloud 2026 SMB Threat Landscape Report (a vendor survey).
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A short, plain document names exactly which systems are yours and in bounds. Nothing runs before it is signed.
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The rules of engagement are in writing before anything runs — what we check, when we check it, and when we stop and call you.
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Every finding explained: what we found, what it means for your business, and how to fix it, in order of importance.
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We never change anything on your systems. The report is the map — what gets fixed, and by whom, is always your call.
General Shield is taking on its founding clients now. If you want an honest look at what the internet can see of your business — under a signed authorization, with a report you can read — start with our parent company:
General Federal Industries → Jeff Pruden on LinkedIn →
General Shield is a product line of General Federal Industries LLC,
Yucca Valley, California.