The environments we see most often, by industry

The services are the same everywhere. What changes is the equipment on site, the hours that matter and what breaks first. Here is how that plays out for the clients we build for.

Professional services firms

Typical environment: Accounting, legal, engineering and consulting offices with 20–300 staff, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, a file server or SharePoint, and a remote workforce.
What goes wrong: File shares nobody owns, VPN that breaks at tax season, departing staff who keep access.
What we do: Identity clean-up with MFA and conditional access, file migration to SharePoint or a managed Azure file share, documented joiner and leaver steps, and a backup with tested restores.

Multi-location retail and restaurants

Typical environment: 5–80 stores or restaurants, each with POS terminals, guest Wi-Fi, cameras and a small back-office PC.
What goes wrong: Every site was set up differently. One bad ISP day takes down card payments.
What we do: One network template per site type, FortiGate or Meraki MX with SD-WAN and a cellular failover link, separate VLANs for POS, staff and guests, and a site-opening checklist we run for each new location.

E-commerce and software companies

Typical environment: Production on AWS or Azure, a few engineers who own the application but not the infrastructure around it.
What goes wrong: Nobody wants to be on call for the database. The cloud bill grows every month.
What we do: Account structure and least-privilege roles, patching and backups for the managed layers, 24/7 P1 response, and a monthly cost review covering idle resources and commitment purchases.

Clinics and dental practices (non-clinical IT)

Typical environment: One to ten locations with front-desk PCs, imaging workstations, a practice-management server and patient Wi-Fi.
What goes wrong: An ageing server under the front desk and no clear record of who can reach it.
What we do: Server replacement or migration, network segmentation, encrypted backups with off-site copies, and access reviews. We work under your vendor's requirements for the clinical software itself.

Logistics and warehousing

Typical environment: Warehouses with handheld scanners, label printers, a WMS and wide floors that need even Wi-Fi coverage.
What goes wrong: Scanners drop off between aisles. Shift changes are when things break.
What we do: Predictive and on-site Wi-Fi surveys, access point placement and roaming tuning, change windows scheduled between shifts, and monitoring for the WMS servers.

One inventory for every location

Multi-site clients get a site register in their portal: which firewall each location runs, when its licence renews, and whether its failover link was tested this quarter.

Site register listing firewall model, licence renewal and failover test status per location

Site register

Site register
Site	Firewall	Licence renewal	Failover test
Store 08 Fort Collins	FortiGate 70G	2027-03-14	Passed
Store 09 Greeley	Meraki MX, Advantage	2027-01-02	Passed
Warehouse A Commerce City	FortiGate 90G	2026-12-20	Renew soon
Store 11 Lakewood	FortiGate 70G	2027-05-30	Not tested

Illustrative product interface

Working within your compliance obligations

When we handle personal information on your behalf, we sign a service provider agreement that limits how that data may be used, as the California Consumer Privacy Act requires of service providers and contractors.

If you face a security audit or a customer questionnaire, we supply the evidence for our part of the work: change records, access lists, backup and restore test results and network diagrams.

For regulated software such as practice-management or payment systems, we follow the vendor's published infrastructure requirements and coordinate with their support team.