IT Specialists
Co-Managed Security for IT Teams

Augment Your IT Team With Enterprise-Grade Security

Your team handles day-to-day operations. We bring the specialized security expertise, 24/7 SOC monitoring, and Zero-Trust infrastructure they don't have time to build.

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The Challenge

Security Is a Full-Time Specialty. Your Team Shouldn't Have to Cover It Alone.

The threat landscape has changed. Your IT staff keeps operations running, but enterprise security requires dedicated expertise and infrastructure.

Remote work broke your perimeter

VPNs were designed for a world where everyone worked in the office. With distributed teams, your attack surface has exploded and legacy tools can't keep up.

Security requires dedicated specialists

Building and maintaining enterprise-grade security infrastructure is a full-time specialty. Your internal team runs operations. We handle the security stack.

Threats don't wait for business hours

Cyberattacks happen at 2 AM on a Saturday. Without 24/7 monitoring, threats can sit in your network for weeks before anyone notices.

Compliance is consuming your team

HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS. The regulatory burden keeps growing, and your IT staff is spending more time on audits than strategic projects.

Tool sprawl with no unified view

Antivirus from one vendor, firewall from another, backups from a third. No single pane of glass means gaps go undetected.

Visibility gaps across the environment

You can't protect what you can't see. Without comprehensive monitoring, threats move laterally through your network undetected.

Our Approach

We Layer Security On Top. Your Team Stays in Control.

This isn't an outsourcing play. We're an extension of your team, focused exclusively on the security work your staff doesn't have bandwidth for.

We augment, not replace

Your IT team keeps full control. We add the security expertise and infrastructure they don't have time to build.

Named specialists, not a helpdesk

Your team works with the same senior engineers every time. People who know your systems and your goals.

Security-first, not security-last

Most MSPs bolt on security as an upsell. We lead with it because everything else depends on a secure foundation.

No long-term lock-in

Flexible agreements because we believe results keep clients, not contracts. Our retention rate proves it.

How It Works

Three Steps to Enterprise-Grade Security

We layer on top of your existing team and systems. No disruption, no takeover, no learning curve.

01

Security Assessment & Gap Analysis

We conduct a thorough audit of your current security posture: network, endpoints, identity, cloud, and compliance. You get a detailed report with prioritized recommendations and a clear remediation roadmap.

02

Architecture Design & Deployment

We design your Zero-Trust and SASE architecture, then deploy it in phases layered on top of your existing systems. Your IT team stays in control of day-to-day while we handle the security infrastructure.

03

24/7 Co-Managed Operations

Your team handles daily IT operations. We handle security monitoring, threat response, compliance, vulnerability management, and escalation support. 24/7/365. One partner, one relationship, complete coverage.

What You Get

Co-Managed Security Capabilities

Everything your team needs to achieve enterprise-grade security, without hiring an entire security department.

Staffed by certified security analysts using enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms. We correlate events across your endpoints, network, cloud, and email to catch what automated tools miss.

We design and deploy a full SASE stack: SD-WAN, cloud-native firewalls, ZTNA, CASB, and DLP. Your users get fast, secure access while your data stays protected, no matter where work happens.

We deploy and manage next-gen EDR/XDR across all endpoints with 24/7 threat hunting. When a threat is detected, our team responds in minutes, not hours.

We implement and manage your identity layer: SSO, MFA, PAM, and conditional access. Role-based policies ensure the right people have the right access. Nothing more.

Whether it's HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CMMC, or NIST, we handle policy creation, gap analysis, continuous monitoring, and audit preparation so compliance doesn't consume your IT staff.

We run automated scans weekly, prioritize by risk severity, and coordinate remediation with your team. Quarterly pen tests validate that your defenses hold up under real-world conditions.

We maintain a documented IR playbook tailored to your environment. Post-incident, we deliver a full forensic report with lessons learned and hardening recommendations.

No ticketing queues. Your IT staff gets a direct line to senior security engineers who already know your environment and can act immediately.

The Business Case

One IT Hire vs. a Security Team

Hiring an IT manager is always cheaper on paper. The problem is what one person can't cover, and what a single breach through those gaps actually costs.

One Hire Doing Everything

  • One person covering SOC, security, and compliance
  • No 24/7 coverage when they sleep or take PTO
  • Gaps in vulnerability scanning & pen testing
  • Incident response falls on someone untrained for it
  • Compliance evidence piles up unmanaged
  • One breach from those gaps costs more than the hire
$100K+/ year + uncovered risk
RECOMMENDED

IT Specialists Co-Managed

  • 24/7 SOC monitoring & response
  • Zero-Trust & SASE architecture
  • Compliance management & reporting
  • Vulnerability scanning & pen testing
  • Incident response & forensics
  • Named specialists who know your systems
A fraction of the cost

“We had a great IT guy, but security was keeping him up at night. IT Specialists took that entire burden off his plate. Now he focuses on projects that grow the business, and we sleep better knowing our security is handled by specialists.”

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IT Director
Colorado Healthcare Organization
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Your IT team keeps full control of day-to-day operations. We layer on top, handling security monitoring, threat response, compliance, and infrastructure so they don't have to. Think of us as your IT team's security department.

No. We deploy in phases, layered on top of your existing systems. Your team stays in control throughout. Most deployments are fully operational within 30 to 45 days with zero downtime.

Because we handle the security layer independently, a staff change on your side doesn't create a security gap. We can also expand our scope to cover operational IT during transitions.

Absolutely. We audit what you have, keep what works, and replace what's creating risk. We're vendor-agnostic and integrate with most enterprise platforms.

Hiring an IT manager to handle everything in-house will always look cheaper on a spreadsheet. The problem is the gaps: one person cannot run a 24/7 SOC, manage SASE architecture, handle compliance evidence, run vulnerability scans, and lead incident response simultaneously. Those gaps are where breaches happen, and the cost of a single breach dwarfs what you would spend on an MSP to cover the security workload properly.

HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and more. We handle gap analysis, policy creation, continuous monitoring, evidence collection, and audit preparation.

Everything. Endpoints, network traffic, email, cloud services, identity events, and user behavior. We use enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms to correlate events and detect threats that point-solutions miss.

Our average response time is 13 seconds to a real security expert. For active incidents, our IR team can begin containment within minutes, not hours.

Your internal IT team keeps running day-to-day operations — user support, endpoint management, Microsoft 365, business systems. We plug in as the specialist layer for cybersecurity, architecture, and compliance: 24/7 SOC monitoring with Managed XDR, identity hardening (conditional access, PAM), network segmentation, vulnerability management, incident response, and GRC support. You stay in control; we become the senior security engineers you can't justify hiring full-time.

No. Our co-managed engagements are explicitly designed to make your IT manager more successful, not to undermine them. We bring them into every strategic conversation, give them access to our tooling, and coach their team. If an IT manager ever feels threatened by our engagement, we've structured it wrong — tell us and we will fix it.

We are vendor-neutral but standardized. Our default stack is Microsoft Defender XDR (Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365) tied into Microsoft Sentinel as the SIEM, plus Huntress for managed response where it makes sense. For clients already invested in other ecosystems (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Arctic Wolf) we integrate rather than force a rip-and-replace.

Yes. We operate as a GRC partner for clients pursuing or maintaining CMMC 2.0 (Levels 1 and 2), HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and NIST 800-171 / 800-53 baselines. We handle technical controls, documentation, evidence collection, and audit liaison. We are not auditors — we prepare you to pass audits.

Co-managed is typically priced per endpoint and per identity for the security stack, plus a fixed monthly retainer for SOC and engineering hours. Most mid-market engagements land in the $25–$65 per user per month range, depending on scope. We'll quote exact pricing after a scoping call.

Yes. We offer emergency incident response for new clients even without a standing contract. Call (719) 359-5995. If you believe you are in an active breach, unplug affected endpoints from the network but do not power them off, and call us before you do anything else.

FrameworkOS

The shared layer between your team and ours.

Live findings. Tracked remediation. Compliance evidence on demand. Everything your team needs to answer leadership without scrambling.

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Open Findings

7 active • 3 resolved this month
HighLocal admin rights on 14 endpoints
HighConditional access not enforced for executives
MedLegacy auth enabled on Microsoft tenant
MedThird-party patching gap (Chrome, Zoom, Adobe)
LowDNS filtering policy unconfigured
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Technology Roadmap

Q2 — In Progress

Conditional access rollout

Admin rights remediation

Q3 — Planned

EDR policy hardening

Backup architecture refresh

Q4 — Planned

Compliance audit prep

Email security upgrade

For your team

Every finding tracked to resolution

No spreadsheets. No lost gaps. Open to closed, with full history.

For your CFO

Budget tied to business impact

Each line item linked to a risk it resolves. Spend decisions get easier.

For your auditor

Evidence ready on demand

Continuous compliance posture for HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, CMMC, NIST.

Ready to Add Enterprise Security to Your Team?

Schedule a security assessment and we'll show you exactly where your gaps are and how we fill them, without disrupting your team.

Call (719) 359-5995
Co-Managed FAQ

What IT managers ask us

Your IT team keeps full control of day-to-day operations. We layer on top, handling security monitoring, threat response, compliance, and infrastructure so they don't have to. Think of us as your IT team's security department.
No. We deploy in phases, layered on top of your existing systems. Your team stays in control throughout. Most deployments are fully operational within 30 to 45 days with zero downtime.
Because we handle the security layer independently, a staff change on your side doesn't create a security gap. We can also expand our scope to cover operational IT during transitions.
Absolutely. We audit what you have, keep what works, and replace what's creating risk. We're vendor-agnostic and integrate with most enterprise platforms.
Hiring an IT manager to handle everything in-house will always look cheaper on a spreadsheet. The problem is the gaps: one person cannot run a 24/7 SOC, manage SASE architecture, handle compliance evidence, run vulnerability scans, and lead incident response simultaneously. Those gaps are where breaches happen, and the cost of a single breach dwarfs what you would spend on an MSP to cover the security workload properly.
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and more. We handle gap analysis, policy creation, continuous monitoring, evidence collection, and audit preparation.
Everything. Endpoints, network traffic, email, cloud services, identity events, and user behavior. We use enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms to correlate events and detect threats that point-solutions miss.
Our average response time is 13 seconds to a real security expert. For active incidents, our IR team can begin containment within minutes, not hours.
Your internal IT team keeps running day-to-day operations — user support, endpoint management, Microsoft 365, business systems. We plug in as the specialist layer for cybersecurity, architecture, and compliance: 24/7 SOC monitoring with Managed XDR, identity hardening (conditional access, PAM), network segmentation, vulnerability management, incident response, and GRC support. You stay in control; we become the senior security engineers you can't justify hiring full-time.
No. Our co-managed engagements are explicitly designed to make your IT manager more successful, not to undermine them. We bring them into every strategic conversation, give them access to our tooling, and coach their team. If an IT manager ever feels threatened by our engagement, we've structured it wrong — tell us and we will fix it.
We are vendor-neutral but standardized. Our default stack is Microsoft Defender XDR (Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365) tied into Microsoft Sentinel as the SIEM, plus Huntress for managed response where it makes sense. For clients already invested in other ecosystems (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Arctic Wolf) we integrate rather than force a rip-and-replace.
Yes. We operate as a GRC partner for clients pursuing or maintaining CMMC 2.0 (Levels 1 and 2), HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and NIST 800-171 / 800-53 baselines. We handle technical controls, documentation, evidence collection, and audit liaison. We are not auditors — we prepare you to pass audits.
Co-managed is typically priced per endpoint and per identity for the security stack, plus a fixed monthly retainer for SOC and engineering hours. Most mid-market engagements land in the $25–$65 per user per month range, depending on scope. We'll quote exact pricing after a scoping call.
Yes. We offer emergency incident response for new clients even without a standing contract. Call (719) 359-5995. If you believe you are in an active breach, unplug affected endpoints from the network but do not power them off, and call us before you do anything else.