For Creative & Marketing Agencies

Your agency runs on
client trust.
One breach ends it.

Your Google Workspace holds every client brief, every brand asset, every piece of work-in-progress. It is also accessed by a rotating cast of freelancers — most of whom still have access long after their last invoice was paid. When that access is exploited, or your domain is spoofed to a client, there is no clean way to explain it.

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Workspace Risk — Audit Findings Unresolved
4 departed contractors — access never revoked Active accounts. Live Drive access. No offboarding on record.
MFA not enforced — 3 accounts without any second factor One compromised password gives full access to all client files
DMARC: none — domain spoofable An attacker can send email appearing to come from your domain to any client
No independent backup — Google Drive only If the account is compromised, client work has no separate recovery path
Score: 61 / 215 — High Risk Book free audit →
21 days
Average attacker dwell time
in an unprotected environment
94%
Of breaches begin with
a phishing or spoofed email
£85
Per user per month for
the complete managed stack
48hrs
Written audit report delivered.
No charge, no obligation.
The Real Risks

Three security gaps that are
specific to how agencies work.

Freelancer-heavy teams, fast project cycles, and shared client files create a specific set of exposures. None of them are exotic. All of them are fixable.

Risk 01

Departed freelancers with live account access.

When a contractor joins, they get added to shared Drives. When the project ends, nobody owns the offboarding. Their account stays active — with full access to client files, briefs, and brand assets — until someone manually removes it. That review rarely happens.

GetBulwark revokes access same day and logs the action on every departure, every time.
Risk 02

A domain anyone can spoof to your clients.

Without DMARC set to reject, an attacker can send email that appears to come from your agency's domain — to your clients, to their finance teams, to anyone. A spoofed payment instruction or a fake brief revision lands in an inbox with your name on it. Your client acts in good faith.

DMARC at reject stops this entirely. Most agencies are on "none" — which stops nothing.
Risk 03

A compromised account that runs undetected for weeks.

Without endpoint monitoring, an attacker who gets into one account — through a phished freelancer, a reused password, or a credential exposed in a data breach — can read emails, download client files, and monitor ongoing projects for an average of 21 days before anyone notices.

Huntress detects and contains threats in an average of 8 minutes. Not 21 days.
What Happens Without Offboarding

What a typical freelancer
departure actually looks like

No security review. No access audit. The project ends and the account stays open indefinitely — because nobody owns the process of closing it.

01
Project ends. Invoice approved.

The Workspace access that was set up for the project stays active. Nobody removes it because nobody owns that step.

02
The account sits open — indefinitely.

Six months later, that contractor's Google account still has full access to the Shared Drives they worked in. Client files. Briefs. Unreleased campaign work. All of it.

03
Their credentials get exposed.

Data breaches are routine. If that freelancer used the same password elsewhere and it gets leaked, whoever finds it has the same access they did — with no time limit and no monitoring.

04
You find out when a client calls.

There was no audit trail. No alert. No log anyone checked. By the time the access is discovered, it has been live for months and there is no way to know what was read or copied.

Contractor Offboarding — Without GetBulwark 4 steps missed
✓
Final invoice approved and paid
✓
Project handover confirmed
✗
Google Workspace account suspended
✗
All active sessions revoked
✗
Shared Drive access removed and reviewed
✗
Activity log reviewed — last 30 days
✓
Sent "great working with you" message
Account remains active. Full access to 3 client Shared Drives. No audit record exists. Duration of exposure: unknown.
What GetBulwark Does

The same stack, applied
to how agencies actually work.

GetBulwark's managed monthly service covers the full security picture — not just the obvious controls, but the freelancer lifecycle and access governance that most agencies have never had anyone own.

Structured offboarding on every contractor exit.

When a contractor leaves, GetBulwark runs a documented offboarding: account suspended, all sessions revoked, Shared Drive access reviewed and removed, activity log checked. Same process every time. Timestamped record filed.

→ Same-day. Every departure.

DMARC at reject — your domain locked to you.

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured and enforced. No external party can send email that appears to come from your agency's domain. The spoofed invoice, the fake brief revision, the fraudulent payment request — all rejected before they reach an inbox.

→ Domain spoofing blocked entirely.

24/7 endpoint monitoring on every managed device.

Huntress monitors every managed device around the clock. If a freelancer's credentials are compromised and someone uses them to access your Workspace at 2am, the SOC detects it and contains it — average response time 8 minutes, not 21 days.

→ Huntress SOC. 8-min avg response.

Monthly scored report — visibility without digging.

Every month: a written security report covering MFA status, access permissions, email authentication, device compliance, and any risk items. You see who has access to what and what changed — without having to check the admin console yourself.

→ Proof the work is being done.
The Commercial Case

Client trust is your
most valuable asset.

A security incident at a creative agency is not just an IT problem. It is a client relationship problem. A spoofed invoice sent to a client using your domain. A compromised account that had access to their unreleased campaign. An ex-contractor whose credentials were leaked and nobody noticed. Any of those lands on your desk as a client conversation you cannot easily recover from.

At £85/user/month, a 12-person agency pays £1,020/month for the complete managed stack — MFA enforcement, DMARC, 24/7 endpoint monitoring, daily backup, access governance, and a monthly scored report. That is the cost of roughly one billable day. It is not the cost of explaining a breach to a client.

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Without GetBulwark
Departed contractors with live Workspace access
MFA optional — one compromised password = full access
DMARC absent — domain spoofable to any client
No endpoint monitoring — 21-day avg attacker dwell time
No independent backup — Workspace compromise = data loss
No audit record — impossible to scope a breach after the fact
With GetBulwark
Same-day offboarding — access revoked, logged, documented
MFA enforced — credential theft stopped at login
DMARC at reject — your domain is yours alone
24/7 monitoring — 8-minute avg threat response
Daily backup — outside Google, independently recoverable
Monthly audit log — full access history, always available
Free Audit — No Obligation

Find out exactly where your agency stands.

A free 45-minute manual review of your Google Workspace. Twenty controls across identity, email authentication, access permissions, and devices — scored out of 215 and delivered as a written PDF within 48 hours. No pitch, no pressure. If everything is in good shape, you will hear that directly.

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Takes 45 minutes. Delivered as a PDF within 48 hours. No contract required.