ABOUT

Hi, I'm David Martin.

I run Information Security Kentucky, LLC — a one-person cybersecurity company based in Hardin County, Kentucky. I do two things, and they share the same purpose.

For small businesses near me, I provide hands-on cybersecurity and backup services. For everyone else, I build a family of professional-grade security apps under the VaultGuard name, available by subscription to individuals and businesses anywhere.

Both sides exist for the same reason: serious cybersecurity has historically been built for big companies, and small businesses and individuals get whatever's left over. I'm working to change that.

How I got here

I spent years watching small Kentucky businesses get squeezed between two bad options. On one side: enterprise security tools priced for Fortune 500 budgets, sold by vendors who don't return calls under a certain dollar threshold. On the other side: consumer software that quietly fails — the kind of "successful" backup logs that turn out to be empty when you finally need them.

In the middle, where most small businesses actually live, there was nothing. So I started building it.

Information Security Kentucky began with a single client and a handful of evenings spent automating their backups properly. It grew into a small services practice — churches, dental offices, funeral homes, self-storage operators, sole proprietors. Each one taught me something the next one would benefit from.

Eventually, I got tired of patching together other people's tools to do the things my clients needed. So I built my own. VaultGuard Backup is the first of those tools, available now as a subscription product to anyone running Windows. More VaultGuard apps are coming, each one designed for the same kind of businesses I serve in person.

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 that something is going to go wrong, and verifies that you can recover from it before you need to.

Small businesses deserve serious tools. A two-person dental office faces ransomware just like a 200-bed hospital does. The threat doesn't scale with your headcount. Your defense shouldn't have to either.

Honest beats clever. Cybersecurity is full of jargon, scare tactics, and acronym soup. None of that helps you make a real decision. I'd rather lose a sale by being upfront than win one by selling you something you didn't need.

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 PM on a Friday, you get me — not a ticket queue, not a tier-1 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 of Kentucky 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 provision for any retired drives or media.

Every VaultGuard subscription is governed by an end-user license agreement and a privacy policy that's specific rather than generic — the privacy policy tells you exactly what data leaves your computer, where it goes, and what we do with it.

I'm not a Fortune 500 vendor and I never plan to be. I'm a one-person Kentucky company that takes cybersecurity seriously, and I built this business to stay that way.