About — Information Security Kentucky
Hi, I'm David Martin.
I run Information Security Kentucky — a one-person cybersecurity company in Hardin County. Not "headquartered" in Hardin County. In it.
I live here, I work here, and when a client calls, the person who answers is the same one who set up their backups.
I do two things, and they share one purpose. For small businesses within driving distance, I provide hands-on cybersecurity and backup
services — in person, at your shop, in plain English. For everyone beyond the drive, I build VaultGuard, a growing family of professional-grade
security apps, starting with VaultGuard Backup — so that the same protection I give my neighbors is available to any small business, anywhere.
Both exist for the same reason: serious cybersecurity has always been built for big companies, and everyone else gets the leftovers. I'm working
to change that — starting with Kentucky.
How I got here
I'm not a Silicon Valley founder. I'm a working Kentuckian who built this company the way most things worth having get built around here — on my
own time, after hours, one piece at a time, because it needed to exist.
What pushed me was watching small businesses across this state get squeezed between two bad options. On one side: enterprise security vendors
with Fortune 500 price tags who won't return a call under a certain dollar amount. On the other: consumer software that quietly fails — the "successful"
backup that turns out to be empty the day the hard drive dies.
In the middle — where the dental office sits, and the church, and the funeral home, and the one-person shop run out of a truck — there was nothing.
Nobody was coming to help. So I decided to be the one who did.
Information Security Kentucky is new, and I'm not going to dress that up. I started it because I kept seeing the same gap and got tired of waiting for
someone else to fill it.
So far, what I've built isn't a client list — it's the thing I'd want to hand one. Software that verifies its own work instead of asking you to trust it. Documentation that explains the hard parts instead of hiding them. A way of working that
doesn't require you to speak fluent IT. That's what the nights and weekends went into.
Eventually I got tired of duct-taping other people's tools together to do what my clients actually needed — so I built my own. VaultGuard Backup is the first. It won't be the last. The plan has always been bigger than one app, and if you
check back over the coming months, you'll see what I mean.
Why "Kentucky" is in the name
I could have called this company something vague and techy that could be from anywhere. I put Kentucky in the name on purpose.
Because this is who I built it for. The businesses here don't have IT departments. They have a owner who does the books at the kitchen table, a computer that runs everything, and a gut feeling that they're one bad day away from
losing it all. They deserve the same caliber of protection a corporation gets — from someone who talks like a neighbor, shows up like one, and charges like the small business he is.
Kentucky's where it starts. It's not where it ends.
What I believe
A few principles that shape both the services and the software:
Backup is a discipline, not a product. A backup you haven't tested isn't a backup — it's a hope. Every system I set up, and every app I build, assumes something will go wrong and verifies you can recover before you need to.
Small businesses deserve serious tools. A two-person dental office faces the same ransomware a 200-bed hospital does. The threat doesn't scale down with your headcount. Your defense shouldn't have to either.
Honest beats clever. This industry runs on jargon, scare tactics, and acronym soup, and none of it helps you make a real decision. I'd rather lose a sale being straight with you than win one selling you something you didn't need. If
you're already in good shape, I'll tell you that too.
You should know who you're paying. When you call my number, I answer. When you email support, I respond. When something breaks at 4:55 on a Friday, you get me — not a ticket queue, not a script reader, not "your case has been
assigned to a specialist."
The company
Information Security Kentucky is a Kentucky limited liability company, registered in the Commonwealth and based in Hardin County. Every services engagement runs under a written agreement with a clear liability cap, a 30-day
termination clause, and a Certificate of Destruction for any retired drives or media. Every VaultGuard subscription is governed by a privacy policy that's specific instead of generic — it tells you exactly what data leaves your computer,
where it goes, and what happens to it.
I'm not a Fortune 500 vendor, and I don't want to be one. What I'm building is bigger than one person can finish in a year — but it will always be built the way it started: by someone with his name on the work, who answers his own
phone.
If your business runs on data you can't afford to lose — whether you're down the road or across the state — let's talk. The first conversation is free, and it comes with no pitch.
Protect. Prevent. Prepare.
