Greenfield IT, security, and compliance, built right the first time.
You won a contract with a security clause and you do not have an IT department yet. We build the whole thing (laptops, accounts, network, cloud, monitoring, and a walled-off environment for the government’s sensitive data) so it passes an assessment the first time instead of being rebuilt in six months. For startups taking their first federal work, and for firms opening a facility that will handle controlled data.
- — You just won a contract with a security clause and have no IT department yet.
- — Your team is on personal laptops and a consumer cloud tenant, and an assessor is coming.
- — You are opening a facility that will handle CUI and need segmentation designed in, not bolted on.
- — You were quoted a retrofit and suspect building it correctly the first time would cost less.
Turnkey compliant infrastructure.
Greenfield IT is the moment where most compliance programs are made or broken. A startup that wires up its infrastructure without CMMC or SOC 2 in mind spends the next six months retrofitting. A commercial firm that opens a new facility without CUI segmentation designed in ends up with a scope-sprawl problem that the first assessor flags immediately. Getting the foundation right is cheaper than fixing it, usually by a wide margin.
We handle the full stack. Network architecture (wired, wireless, VPN, CUI-segmented VLANs). Identity and access management (Active Directory, Entra ID, SSO, MFA, privileged access). Endpoint deployment (Intune, JAMF, EDR/MDR across all workstations). Cloud tenant setup in Azure GovCloud, GCC High, or AWS US Gov depending on workload class. Email and productivity with compliance licensing. Centralized SIEM with retention tuned to 800-171 and CMMC expectations. Backup and DR. Physical security integration (badges, cameras, access control) via trusted subcontractors. Low-voltage cabling and rack install. Optional help desk and L1 support.
We don't vanish after cable-pulling. Typical engagements include a three-to-six-month operating period where we run the environment while your internal IT and security team comes online, then hand off with full documentation and runbooks, or continue as a managed retainer if that is the better fit.
- ✓ Network design and installation, with the controlled-data side kept separate from everything else
- ✓ Company accounts and logins — single sign-on, multi-factor, and controlled admin access (Entra ID or Active Directory)
- ✓ Company laptops, centrally managed and locked down to a recognized security baseline, with threat monitoring on every one
- ✓ The right cloud environment for your data: commercial, GovCloud, or GCC High. We tell you which you actually need, since the wrong answer is expensive in both directions
- ✓ Central security logging, kept long enough to prove what happened; you cannot create this history after the fact
- ✓ A dedicated, walled-off environment for controlled government data, plus backup and disaster recovery
- ✓ The written policies, diagrams, and procedures an assessor will ask for, written to their standard, not filler
- ✓ Three-to-six-month operating period, then documented handoff or managed retainer
All engagements are anonymized. We do not publish client names.
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Start with a scoping conversation.
No obligation and no pitch deck. We will tell you what the engagement actually involves, what it depends on, and whether we are the right firm for it — including when we are not.