About droptine group
Managed technology and cybersecurity for businesses built on trust.
Whether you need a complete technology partner or added expertise alongside your existing team, Droptine helps close gaps, strengthen security, and keep your business moving.
30 minutes. A strategic conversation. Clear next steps.
Don't be like most businesses
Most business owners are guessing about cybersecurity.
The IT provider handles tickets. The client portal vendor protects the portal. The insurer asks questions. The regulator asks for documentation. Vendors need access. Employees work from wherever they are.
Somewhere in the middle, the business owner is left wondering whether the whole environment is actually protected.
Droptine was built to close that gap.
Somewhere in the middle, the business owner is left wondering whether the whole environment is actually protected.
Droptine was built to close that gap.
Why Droptine exists
Most security failures don't trace back to a sophisticated attack. They trace back to a Tuesday: a password reused because nobody prevented it, an ex-exployee account still active because disabling it was nobody's job, backups that failed quietly in a system nobody checked.
Each of those gaps had a vendor adjacent to it. None of them had an owner.
After an incident, every party can explain, accurately, why the gap wasn't theirs to watch. The explanations are all true, and the data is still gone.
Droptine was started to be the firm those gaps belong to. One party accountable for the whole picture: finding the exposure, closing the gaps, and keeping it all locked down as the business grows.
Each of those gaps had a vendor adjacent to it. None of them had an owner.
After an incident, every party can explain, accurately, why the gap wasn't theirs to watch. The explanations are all true, and the data is still gone.
Droptine was started to be the firm those gaps belong to. One party accountable for the whole picture: finding the exposure, closing the gaps, and keeping it all locked down as the business grows.
What we believe
Security should match the consequence
A tax firm, an oil and gas firm, and a defense contractor don't need the same program. They need controls sized to their specific industry, operations, and data.
A document is not protection
Documentation matters, but a document only describes controls. If the controls don't exist or aren't followed, the document is a confession with a table of contents.
IT and security belong together
Devices, access, email, backups — every one is both an IT task and a security control. Companies that split them across vendors create exactly the gaps attackers look for.
Practical beats theatrical
No 80-page report that ends at the report. If we can't tell you what to fix first, why it should be fixed, and how we are going to fix it for you, we haven't done our job yet.
Leadership
Austin Buonasera
Austin brings deep government and private sector cyber experience to the work. What that background means for clients: he has seen how systems actually get attacked and compromised and what assessors actually check — so the program he leads is shaped by experience.
Clayton Hauk
Clayton has spent his career scaling and leading businesses. At Droptine he owns the client side of the work: scope that's clear before the engagement starts, communication a non-technical owner can act on, and pricing that doesn't need decoding.
How we work
01
Exposure first
We don't open with a product list. We open with where risk actually lives in your business — then the recommendations have a reason behind them.
02
Priorities, not piles
Findings get ranked by consequence. You'll always know what we'd fix first and why it's ahead of the rest.
03
Implementation, not advice
We do the work — configure the controls, write the documentation, run the monitoring. Advice alone doesn't change your risk.
04
Maintenance, because drift is real
The program stays current as people, vendors, and systems change. Security that was true last year isn't a fact. It's a memory.
Talk to people who take the job as seriously as you take yours.
One conversation, plain English, and a straight read on where you stand — including the parts that are fine as they are.