ANC Systems conducts a complete, on-site Security & Network Risk Assessment for your business — covering every layer of your environment from network architecture to physical access control. You receive a scored risk report, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and the clearest picture of your security posture you've ever had.
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(847) 250-0003 Mon – Fri, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT · A real person answersThe ANC Systems Security & Network Risk Assessment is a comprehensive, on-site evaluation conducted by a certified technician at your Naperville or Chicagoland location. Here is exactly what we examine and what you receive for each component.
A complete map of every device on your network — workstations, servers, printers, cameras, IoT devices, smartphones, and anything else communicating on your infrastructure. Most businesses discover devices they didn't know existed. Every unknown device is a potential security exposure.
Your environment is scored on a 0-to-100 security risk scale — with detailed scoring across sub-categories including network security, identity and access controls, endpoint protection, patch management, and data protection. Your score is benchmarked against businesses of similar size and industry so you understand where you stand relative to your peers.
Active scanning for known vulnerabilities across your network and connected systems — unpatched operating systems, exposed services, open ports, weak authentication configurations, and misconfigured firewalls. Each vulnerability is documented with its severity rating, its real-world exploitation risk, and the specific remediation steps required to close it.
We verify what is actually being backed up, how frequently, where backups are stored, whether they are isolated from your production network (ransomware resilience), and — critically — whether a restoration has ever been successfully tested. A backup that has never been tested is not a backup you can rely on. We check the evidence, not just the configuration.
Wireless network security configuration, SSID broadcast settings, encryption standards (WPA3 vs. WPA2 vs. outdated protocols), guest network isolation, channel interference, coverage dead zones, and access point firmware patch status. Weak WiFi security is among the most common and most exploitable vulnerabilities in small business environments.
An evaluation of physical access controls — who has physical access to servers and networking equipment, whether server rooms or IDF closets are properly secured, camera system coverage and recording practices, visitor access procedures, and device disposal practices. Physical security failures create digital vulnerabilities that no software can protect against.
A written report — delivered within 2 to 3 business days of the on-site assessment — containing your security risk score, all findings organized by severity, plain-language explanations of each risk and its real-world implications, and a prioritized remediation roadmap with specific action steps. Written for a business owner, not an IT director.
The assessment process is designed to be minimally disruptive to your daily operations. The on-site portion takes 2 to 4 hours depending on your environment size, and we schedule it at your convenience — including early mornings and late afternoons to avoid your busiest business hours.
Submit the form above or call (847) 250-0003. A member of the ANC Systems team contacts you within one business day to schedule the on-site visit at a time that works for your schedule and your team.
A certified ANC Systems technician arrives at your Naperville or Chicagoland location and conducts the full seven-component assessment. Your team does not need to prepare anything in advance. The process requires minimal involvement from your staff — we work around your operations, not through them.
You receive a detailed written report — your security risk score, all findings by severity, plain-language explanations of each risk, and a prioritized remediation roadmap with specific action steps. The report is written for a business owner who needs to make decisions, not a technical audience that needs log files.
We schedule a brief call to walk through the report, answer questions, and discuss any issues you'd like to address. There is no obligation to engage ANC Systems for remediation — the report and the recommendations are yours. If you do move forward with us, the $499 assessment fee is credited toward your first month of service.
In over 15 years of conducting these assessments for businesses throughout Naperville and the greater Chicagoland area, certain findings appear repeatedly — across industries, company sizes, and IT setups. These are three of the most common.
A Naperville professional services firm with 28 employees had been operating under the assumption that their nightly backup was running successfully. During the assessment, we discovered the backup job had failed silently every night for over four months following a storage configuration change. The backup monitoring dashboard showed green — because the alert threshold had been set incorrectly. The firm had no recoverable backup for a four-month period without knowing it.
A DuPage County medical practice's network discovery revealed 14 unidentified devices on their primary clinical network — a mix of forgotten IoT devices, old printers, and personal devices that had connected over the years and never been removed. Three of those devices were actively sending traffic to external addresses. The practice had no network segmentation — all 14 unknown devices had the same access to patient records as clinical workstations.
A Will County financial advisory firm scored 23 out of 100 on the security risk assessment — placing them in the high-risk category. Their antivirus subscription had expired six months earlier and was no longer updating. No accounts had multi-factor authentication. The guest WiFi network shared a subnet with client data systems. The firewall was running firmware from 2019 with 11 known critical vulnerabilities. The firm's leadership had believed they were adequately protected because "IT had set everything up."
ANC Systems has been managing IT environments for small and mid-sized businesses throughout Naperville and Chicagoland for over 15 years. We know which vulnerabilities appear most frequently in which types of environments. We know what a failing backup looks like before it fails completely. We know which firewall configurations create risk that passes a checkbox audit but fails in practice. Experience creates pattern recognition that a generic vulnerability scanner cannot replicate.
Many security assessments produce technical reports full of CVE numbers, log excerpts, and severity scores that a business owner cannot evaluate or prioritize. ANC Systems produces an executive report written for the person who makes decisions — with plain-language descriptions of each finding, its real-world business implication, and specific recommended actions ordered by priority and cost. You know what to fix first, what it will cost, and what happens if you don't.
The report is yours. The recommendations are yours. There is no expectation or pressure that you will engage ANC Systems to address the findings. Some businesses use the report to direct their existing IT vendor. Some use it to evaluate multiple remediation options. Some move their IT relationship to ANC Systems. All of those outcomes are acceptable to us. We believe the assessment is valuable regardless of what you decide to do next.
ANC Systems is headquartered in Naperville, IL and conducts on-site assessments throughout the Chicagoland area. This is not a remote scan performed by a vendor who has never seen your building. Our technician physically inspects your server room, your network closet, your physical access controls, and your WiFi infrastructure. Some of the most important findings in any assessment cannot be discovered remotely.
This assessment is designed for small and mid-sized businesses in Naperville, IL and across the Chicagoland area — typically 5 to 150 employees — who need an honest, independent evaluation of their security and network posture.
You've never had an independent security or network assessment — and you genuinely don't know whether your current setup is protecting you.
You've experienced a security incident — ransomware, a data breach, business email compromise, or unauthorized access — and need to understand how it happened and what gaps remain.
You're preparing for a compliance audit — HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FTC Safeguards — and need to identify your gaps before the auditor does.
A client, partner, or insurer has requested documentation of your security posture — and you don't have a current assessment to show them.
You have an IT company but aren't certain what they're actually monitoring, managing, or protecting — and you want an independent second opinion.
You're considering cyber insurance or renewing an existing policy and need to understand your current risk profile before the underwriter asks.
You're acquiring a business or being acquired — and need a technology due diligence assessment of the IT environment as part of the transaction.
You simply want to know, with certainty, whether your backups work, your network is secure, and your business is adequately protected — before finding out the hard way.
The assessment includes seven distinct components: (1) full network discovery and device inventory — every device on your network, including ones you didn't know existed; (2) security risk scoring on a 0–100 scale with industry benchmark context; (3) vulnerability identification across all network layers — unpatched systems, weak authentication, misconfigured firewalls, exposed services; (4) backup and recovery validation — whether your backups actually exist, whether they're isolated from ransomware, and whether they've been tested; (5) WiFi and network infrastructure analysis; (6) physical security review of server rooms, access control, and cameras; and (7) a written executive report with plain-language findings and a prioritized remediation roadmap. All of this is performed on-site at your Naperville or Chicagoland location by a certified ANC Systems technician.
If ANC Systems conducts the on-site Security & Network Risk Assessment and does not uncover meaningful security risks or improvement opportunities in your environment — you do not pay the $499 fee. No conditions, no disputes, no partial credit. In over 15 years of conducting these assessments for businesses throughout DuPage, Will, Kane, and Cook counties, we have never once performed an assessment that produced no findings of consequence. We offer this guarantee because we are confident in the consistency of what we find — not because we expect to need to invoke it. Additionally, if you become an ANC Systems managed IT client following the assessment, the $499 fee is credited in full toward your first month of service.
The on-site assessment typically takes 2 to 4 hours depending on the size and complexity of your environment. A small office with fewer than 20 users and no on-premise servers generally takes 2 hours. A larger environment with servers, multiple network segments, and complex infrastructure may take 3 to 4 hours. We schedule the on-site visit at your convenience — including early mornings before your peak business hours if you prefer. The assessment requires minimal involvement from your staff — your team continues working normally throughout the process. The written executive report is delivered within 2 to 3 business days of the on-site visit.
No. The assessment report and all recommendations are yours to use as you see fit — whether that means directing your existing IT vendor to address the findings, engaging another provider for specific remediation work, or doing nothing (though we'd encourage you to consider the findings carefully). There is no pressure or expectation that you will engage ANC Systems for follow-up work. If you do choose to move forward with us, the $499 assessment fee is credited in full toward your first month of managed IT service. Some of our best long-term client relationships began with businesses that ordered the assessment with zero intention of switching IT providers — and changed their minds after seeing the report.
ANC Systems conducts on-site Security & Network Risk Assessments for businesses with 5 to 150 employees throughout Naperville, IL and the greater Chicagoland area, including Aurora, Bolingbrook, Lisle, Downers Grove, Wheaton, Woodridge, Oak Brook, Schaumburg, Lombard, Elmhurst, Joliet, Romeoville, Plainfield, and surrounding communities across DuPage, Will, Kane, and Cook counties. For businesses outside our standard service area, contact us to discuss options — some components of the assessment can be conducted remotely for environments beyond our typical on-site range.
Free online vulnerability scanners test a narrow slice of your environment — typically just your internet-facing IP addresses for known CVEs. They miss everything inside your network perimeter: the unknown devices on your WiFi, the server with the expired antivirus, the backup that's been failing for months, the access point with outdated firmware in the back office, and the server closet that anyone in the building can walk into. An automated scan cannot validate your backups, review your physical security, or produce a prioritized remediation roadmap with cost context. The ANC Systems assessment is a human-performed, on-site evaluation that covers your entire environment — the parts visible from the internet and the parts that are only visible from inside your building.