Tips, leaks, and links from unknown senders are the job. We keep your newsroom's Windows and Mac computers updated, monitored around the clock, and protected from malicious websites, for a price a small newsroom can budget.
A newsroom that refuses documents from strangers stops being a newsroom. That means the laptop opening them has to be patched, monitored, and able to be isolated fast if something goes wrong.
Notes, contact lists, and drafts live on reporters' machines. A compromise is not only a technical problem. It can put a source at risk and undo months of trust.
Fake document-share links, fake login pages, and fake press invitations are routine. Blocking known malicious sites and watching for what slips through catches most of it before it spreads.
Most independent newsrooms have under ten people and no IT staff. Updates, antivirus, and alerts fall to whoever is least busy, which means they fall to nobody.
Each additional computer is $25 at setup and $20 per month. A seven-person newsroom pays $425 to start and $239 a month after that. Month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice. Windows and Mac cost the same.
"Managed endpoint security for newsroom computers (patching, threat monitoring and response, malicious-website blocking, monthly reporting): $2,388 per year for up to five computers, plus a one-time $375 setup fee." We adjust the numbers for your headcount and can invoice a fiscal sponsor directly.
One short call, written approval, then installation on each covered computer, usually within a week. Reporters keep working. We confirm everything is reporting and send a first status summary.
Journalism networks, fiscal sponsors, and funders can sponsor endpoint defense for several small newsrooms at once. One agreement, one invoice, one consolidated report, and a lower per-computer price.
Minimum of 40 computers across the cohort. Each newsroom receives the full service and its own monthly report. The sponsor receives a consolidated summary of coverage across the program.
Covers each participating newsroom up to ten computers, including its own kickoff call and incident contacts. Larger newsrooms are quoted individually.
Five newsrooms, ten computers each: $2,500 setup and $1,250 per month, or $17,500 for the first year. That is the full service for fifty newsroom computers.
Secure Origin is run by Rafael Gutierrez, Director of Technology at The Southlander, a worker-owned newsroom, with a background in security operations and adversary emulation. The service is shaped by what small newsrooms can actually run and afford, and tested in our lab before it reaches a client.
Tell us how many reporters and editors you have and what they work on. We reply within one business day with a written scope and price.