Uptime-first infrastructure, IT and OT kept properly apart, secure ERP and MES access, and plant Wi-Fi that copes with ruggedized devices and a building full of metal. Generic small-business IT does not survive a production floor. We design for one.
You find that out the first time a provider pushes a Windows update to a machine running production. On top of it you have supply-chain audits, customer security questionnaires, and ransomware crews who target operational technology specifically, because downtime is leverage.
Corporate IT through production-floor infrastructure, security through supply-chain compliance.
Supply chains have turned into a security battleground. Customers audit you, insurers want documentation, and contracts do get lost over a posture that will not survive review.
Reaches manufacturers handling Controlled Unclassified Information, most often through a defense supply chain. We assess the gaps, remediate, and document the result for assessor review.
Certification is phasing into Department of Defense contracts. We help you understand your scope, put the required controls in place, and get ready for third-party assessment.
Major OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers send audits running 50–200 questions. We help you answer honestly and hold the documentation that backs each answer up.
Producing ITAR-controlled items means technical data has to stay segregated from access by non-US persons. That is a real network and identity design problem, and we scope it with you during discovery rather than by template.
State breach notification reaches employee, customer, and supplier PII. We build an incident response plan aligned to it.
Manufacturing is a top ransomware target and premiums have followed. A documented posture helps at renewal and makes sure coverage actually triggers.
We are IT professionals, not attorneys, export-control counsel, or CMMC assessors. We build and document the technical controls and work alongside your counsel or assessor when formal validation is required. The wider stack lives on Cybersecurity & Compliance and Network Infrastructure.
Wisconsin's manufacturing base is one of the most diverse in the country, and we work across the spectrum.
IT is the office network: laptops, email, file shares. OT is the production network: PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, machine controllers. On one flat network, a single phishing email on the office side can stop the line. Segmentation puts firewall rules between them so a compromise on one side stays contained instead of becoming catastrophic.
Yes. We do not replace your ERP. We manage the infrastructure underneath it, meaning servers, network, security, and access control, coordinate with the ERP vendor on issues, and handle provisioning and offboarding. On-premises and cloud deployments both.
We are not a CMMC third-party assessor. We implement the underlying controls and get you ready for assessment, which in practice means gap assessment, remediation, and documentation. When you need formal assessment, we coordinate with assessor partners.
Carefully, and on your schedule. Staged patching rings, patches tested outside production first, and update windows coordinated around the production calendar. For machines that genuinely cannot be patched, usually legacy controls, we isolate them behind strict segmentation with compensating controls instead.
Yes. We supply the documentation, technical evidence, and policy artifacts your customer's security team asks for. We help you answer honestly, then close the real gaps the questionnaire exposes so the answers stay true the next time it lands.
Two parts, and they are priced differently. Office and back-office staff support is a flat per-user monthly fee. Production-floor infrastructure, meaning segmentation, OT monitoring, and ruggedized device management, is scoped per site: a project cost for the initial design plus an ongoing managed cost that depends on plant size and how much OT is in play. We put real numbers on it after walking the floor, because plants vary too much to quote from a template. Rates and inclusions for the underlying service are on Managed IT Services.
We review your IT and OT separation, ERP security posture, and supply-chain readiness, then hand you a prioritized 30-day action plan. You keep the plan either way.