Playbook
The SMB Cyber Resilience Playbook.
The five layers every defense needs, plus a 30 day hardening checklist you can run today.
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Resources
Smart reads for forward thinkers.
Playbooks, eBooks, whitepapers, infographics, and case studies, all built to help you make sharper technology decisions. No jargon, no fluff, just answers.
The Manufacturer's CMMC Playbook
Get certified before the deadline.
What CMMC 2.0 means for your shop floor, why GCC High changes the conversation, and how to choose an IT partner that can actually get you certified. Updated for the 48 CFR Final Rule.
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Playbooks
Field guides for every pillar.
Twelve plain English playbooks, one for each thing we do, each with checklists you can run this week.
Playbook
The Continuous Compliance Playbook.
Replace audit season panic with a calm, always ready compliance program.
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Playbook
The Manufacturer's CMMC Playbook.
What CMMC 2.0 means for your shop floor and how to get certified before the deadline.
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Playbook
The IT Project Success Playbook.
How to scope, staff and ship technology projects that land on time and get used.
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Playbook
The Co-Managed IT Playbook.
Give your internal IT team a 40 person bench without adding headcount.
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The Practical AI Adoption Playbook.
Capture the productivity of AI without the hype, the wasted spend, or the data risk.
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The Microsoft 365 Done Right Playbook.
Migrate, secure and actually use Microsoft 365, from tenant hardening to Teams.
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Playbook
The Business Continuity Playbook.
Why backups fail when you need them, RTO and RPO in plain language, and a recovery test you can run this week.
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Playbook
The Smart Cloud Migration Playbook.
Six migration paths decoded, a cost model with no missing lines, and a zero downtime cutover checklist.
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Playbook
The Technology Roadmap Playbook.
Why reactive IT costs more, what a virtual CIO really does, and a budget your CFO will defend.
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Playbook
The Copilot Readiness Playbook.
Why permissions come before licenses, the oversharing risk in plain language, and a 90 day adoption plan.
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Playbook
The Modern Network Playbook.
MPLS versus SD-WAN decoded, how application aware routing keeps calls clear, and a failover design that works at 2 a.m.
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Blogs and whitepapers
Fresh off the press.
Blog
Cybersecurity Best Practices for Manufacturing Companies.
The shop floor is the new attack surface. Here is how to defend it without slowing production.
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Blog
How to Improve Cybersecurity in Manufacturing.
Legacy machines, flat networks, and tribal knowledge, the three gaps attackers love most.
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Whitepaper
The IT Director's Guide to Supporting Multiple Locations.
Architecture, connectivity, and support models that scale cleanly past your second site.
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Case studies
Real results, documented.
Manufacturing · 85 Users
Eliminated 100+ hours of monthly downtime after a complete IT overhaul.
Co-managed IT, Azure migration, layered XDR and a 24/7 help desk cut ticket volume 60% in 90 days.
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Professional Services · 42 Users
Defeated a ransomware attack with zero data loss, and zero ransom paid.
Contained in 22 minutes, restored overnight from tamper proof backups, fully operational by Monday.
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Architectural Firm · 60 Users
Cut infrastructure costs 38% with a cloud native migration.
Legacy servers to Microsoft 365 and Azure, MFA and ITDR, real time collaboration from anywhere.
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Events
You're invited.
The fun side of Solution Builders. See what is coming up and reserve your seats.
Event
Avengers: Doomsday Private Screening.
See it a day before the world does. Thursday, December 17 at Mall of America. You, two guests, pizza and snacks.
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The RISE library
eBooks, whitepapers and briefs.
The framework behind everything we do, Resilient, Integrated, Secure and Evolving, in four eBooks, plus the field guides and whitepapers our clients ask for most.
eBook
RISE: The New Era of Business Technology, Complete Edition.
The full RISE framework in one volume: Resilient, Integrated, Secure and Evolving.
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eBook
RISE: Resilient.
Cloud, business continuity and backup, so your business can operate under any circumstance.
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eBook
RISE: Integrated.
Integrations, infrastructure and professional services that connect the tools, data and people that drive growth.
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eBook
RISE: Secure.
Layered cybersecurity for growing businesses, from identity to 24/7 detection and response.
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eBook
The AI Advantage.
How growing businesses put AI to work safely, with the governance to match.
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Field guide
Field Guide to the Cybersecurity Apocalypse.
Seven monsters hunting your business, from Count Phishula to the Shadow AI Ghost, each with a plain English survival plan.
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Whitepaper
The Integrated Business.
Only 27% of business applications talk to each other. What connecting the other 73% looks like in practice.
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Whitepaper
The IT Leader's Guide to Co-Managed IT.
The models, the math, and how to add cybersecurity, cloud and AI depth to your team without giving up control.
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Brief
The CMMC Pause Brief.
What paused, what did not, and five smart moves to make with the extra time before assessments resume.
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Infographics
The numbers, on one page.
Quick reads you can forward to your leadership team, each built from this year's research.
Infographic
What Resilient Work Looks Like.
A one page picture of a business that keeps running through outages, attacks and growth.
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Infographic
Where Limits Show Up First.
The early warning signs that your technology is holding your growth back.
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Infographic
250 Hours.
Five small AI plays that hand each person more than 250 hours a year back, with the math behind it.
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Infographic
Questions Leaders Ask When Growth Hits Limits.
The questions worth asking before the next hire, office or system.
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Infographic
Work Anywhere, Win Everywhere.
The business case for flexible, cloud first work: why flexibility pays for itself, with the numbers behind it.
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Infographic
Resilient by Design.
90% of leaders are confident they can recover from an attack. 28% actually did. What Resilient looks like, layer by layer, with a checklist.
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Infographic
The Real Cost of IT Headaches.
Workers lose 7.9 hours a week to technology friction. The numbers, plus a simple way to estimate what it costs your business.
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Infographic
Co-Managed IT: What Comes Off Your Plate.
Exactly which work moves to our team and which stays firmly with yours, on one page.
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Infographic
Your First 90 Days.
Week by week, what switching to Managed IT Support looks like, plus the questions to ask any IT partner before you sign.
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Infographic
Part 1: The Problem.
The scariest numbers from this year's breach reports, and what they mean for a business like yours.
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Infographic
Part 2: The Alternatives.
The five ways businesses try to handle cyber risk, held up against the data. Only one checks every box.
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Infographic
Part 3: The Solution.
The basics that actually work: MFA, patching, tested backups and 24/7 monitoring, with the numbers behind each.
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