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Managed IT Services
Security-Aligned IT Operations
Most organizations manage IT and security as separate functions handled by separate teams. That gap is exactly where things fall through. We deliver IT operations with NIST and CIS security controls woven into every process so your environment is operationally sound and defensibly secure at the same time.
Certifications & Partnerships
Microsoft Partner Google Cloud Partner NIST CSF Aligned SOC 2 Operations CMMC Ready
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This is not a standalone security service
Security-aligned IT operations means your managed IT practice operates to security standards such as patch discipline, access control, MFA enforcement, and vulnerability management built into how we run your environment every day. If your organization needs a full dedicated security program with SOC monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response, that is our Managed Security Services practice. Many clients run both. Neither replaces the other.
What's Included
Security controls that run continuously not just before an audit.
Security compliance is not a point-in-time event. The organizations that pass audits easily are the ones whose IT operations produce compliance evidence as a byproduct of how they work every day. That's what we build.
Vulnerability management
Regular vulnerability scans across your environment, prioritized by exploitability and business impact — not just CVSS score. Findings are remediated on a defined timeline with documented evidence, not added to a backlog that never moves.
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Weekly authenticated scans across endpoints and infrastructure
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Risk-prioritized remediation with defined SLAs by severity
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Trend reporting showing open, closed, and aging findings
Identity and access reviews
Excessive access is one of the most common findings in security assessments and one of the easiest to avoid. We conduct quarterly access reviews across your systems, identify accounts with more permissions than they need, and enforce least-privilege as a standard operating practice.
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Quarterly access reviews across AD, M365, and cloud platforms
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Stale account identification and remediation
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Privileged access monitoring and documentation
MFA enforcement and identity hardening
Stolen credentials are involved in the majority of breaches. MFA doesn't stop every attack, but it stops the most common ones. We deploy, enforce, and monitor MFA across your accounts, and close the gaps that let people work around it.
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MFA rollout and enforcement via Azure AD and Okta
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Conditional access policy configuration
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Phishing-resistant MFA for privileged accounts
Compliance reporting and evidence management
Auditors don't want your word that controls are working, they want evidence. We produce documented, timestamped records of security control activity throughout the year so your next audit is a review, not a fire drill.
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Continuous control evidence collection and storage
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Framework-mapped reports for NIST, CIS, HIPAA, and CMMC
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Audit-ready documentation packages on request
Frameworks we align to
We speak the language your auditors and regulators use.
Security frameworks aren't checkboxes, they're operational blueprints. We align our IT operations practices to the frameworks that matter for your industry so compliance is a natural output of how we work.
NIST CSF
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The most widely adopted security framework in the US. Our operations map to the five NIST functions Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover giving you a structured posture that regulators and insurance carriers recognize.
Energy Critical infrastructure General compliance
CIS Controls v8
CIS Critical Security Controls
Eighteen prioritized controls that address the most common attack vectors. We implement CIS Controls as the operational foundation of every managed IT engagement, not as an add-on, but as the way we run your environment from day one.
SMB and mid-market PE-backed companies Professional services
HIPAA / CMMC
HIPAA and CMMC alignment
Healthcare organizations and defense contractors operate under strict regulatory requirements. We manage IT operations practices that align to HIPAA and CMMC producing the documentation those frameworks demand.
Healthcare Defense contractors Government adjacent
Control mapping
What we manage, and which frameworks it satisfies.
Every operational practice we run maps to one or more security control requirements. Here's how our work connects to the frameworks your auditors care about.
| Operational practice | Type | NIST CSF | CIS Controls | HIPAA / CMMC |
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| Patch and vulnerability management | IT + Security | PR.IP, DE.CM | Controls 7, 12 | 164.308(a)(5) |
| MFA enforcement and conditional access | Security | PR.AC | Control 6 | 164.312(d) |
| Quarterly access reviews | IT + Security | PR.AC, ID.AM | Controls 5, 6 | 164.308(a)(3) |
| Endpoint EDR and AV management | IT + Security | DE.CM, RS.MI | Controls 10, 13 | 164.306(a)(1) |
| 24/7 infrastructure monitoring | IT Ops | DE.CM, DE.AE | Controls 8, 13 | 164.308(a)(6) |
| Backup verification and DR testing | IT Ops | RC.RP, PR.IP | Control 11 | 164.308(a)(7) |
Why it Matters
Security that lives in a separate silo from IT operations has a gap in it by design.
When your IT team and your security team are different vendors who never talk to each other, neither one has the full picture. Patches slip through because the security team doesn't know what's deployed. Access reviews miss accounts because the IT team doesn't know what the security team is looking for. We close that gap because the same team owns both.
One team, one view of your environment
Our IT ops and security practices share the same asset inventory, the same incident history, and the same operational context. An anomaly spotted in monitoring feeds directly into security review, not a separate ticket queue at a different company.
Audit evidence that exists before you need it
We document control activity throughout the year as a standard practice. When your auditor asks for six months of patch compliance records or MFA enforcement evidence, we produce it in hours.
Built for Texas industries under real pressure
Energy operators, healthcare organizations, and PE-backed companies in Texas face regulatory scrutiny and threat actors that most MSPs haven't dealt with. Our team has, and our operational practices reflect it.
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Who This is Built for
Organizations where "we'll deal with compliance later" is no longer an option.
Energy and critical infrastructure
NERC CIP requirements, OT/IT convergence risks, and a threat landscape that's intensified dramatically over the past three years. We manage IT operations for energy companies with practices that hold up under regulatory scrutiny and real attack conditions.
Healthcare organizations
HIPAA's technical safeguard requirements aren't optional, and OCR enforcement has accelerated. We manage the IT operational controls that HIPAA actually requires encryption, access logging, audit controls, and documented workforce training records.
PE-backed and portfolio companies
Cybersecurity due diligence is now standard in every transaction. Whether you're preparing for an acquisition review or cleaning up a portfolio company's posture post-close, we build IT operations that produce the evidence buyers and their advisors ask for.
Frequently Asked Questions
What people ask before they get started.
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What's the difference between this and your Managed Security Services?
Security-aligned IT operations means your day-to-day IT environment is managed to security standards — patch discipline, MFA enforcement, access reviews, and vulnerability management are built into how we run your IT. Managed Security Services is a separate, dedicated security program that adds SOC monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and security assessments on top of that foundation. Many clients run both. Security-aligned IT operations is often the right starting point; Managed Security Services is what you add when you need a full dedicated security function.
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Does this make us compliant with HIPAA or NIST?
It addresses the technical and operational controls those frameworks require — patch management, access controls, MFA, vulnerability management, audit logging, and documented evidence. What it doesn't replace is the full compliance program: risk assessments, policies and procedures, workforce training, and business associate agreement management. We produce the technical controls and documentation that form a significant portion of most compliance frameworks, and we're direct about what falls outside scope rather than overpromising.
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How do access reviews actually work in practice?
On a quarterly schedule, we pull current access lists from Active Directory, M365, your cloud platforms, and any other systems in scope. We review against role definitions and flag accounts with excessive permissions, inactive accounts that should be disabled, and service accounts without documented owners. We remediate what we can directly and bring anything requiring a business decision to you with a clear recommendation. The whole cycle is documented so you have a dated record of every review and what was done.
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We already have a security vendor. Can you still provide security-aligned IT operations?
Yes, and this is a common setup. We manage IT operations to security standards while your existing security vendor handles SOC monitoring or assessments. The key is establishing clear communication between the two teams — specifically around asset inventory, patch status, and incident escalation paths. We've worked alongside other security vendors before and know how to make the handoff points clean. What we'd want to avoid is the situation where neither vendor has a complete picture of your environment.
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How quickly can you establish a security baseline for our environment?
Our onboarding process starts with an environment assessment that includes a security posture review — typically two to three weeks. That gives us a current-state picture: patch coverage, MFA adoption, access control gaps, and active vulnerability findings. From there we prioritize remediation based on risk and build the operational practices that will maintain your posture on an ongoing basis. Most clients have their first CIS Controls alignment report within 60 days of signing.
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