Extend your IT team with managed security depth.
Close security coverage gaps with managed EDR/XDR and 24/7 U.S.-based SOC response.
Keep your current IT team in place while CSS adds compliance-ready security operations.
Reduce unnecessary work by starting with scoping, asset categorization, and clear boundaries.
Support CMMC and NIST readiness with POA&M, SSP, policy templates, and reporting dashboards.
Strengthen daily operations with patching, MFA, DLP, email defense, and secure remote access.
Clients value responsive guidance, practical execution, and security support that fits their environment.
It’s always a pleasure to collaborate with your team. The workshops are of excellent quality, and the webinars are a valuable and reliable resource for our organization. Horacio Maysonet, a cybersecurity specialist, always brings clarity, professionalism, and great value to companies.
CSS works hard to resolve every issue, follows through consistently, keeps us updated, and never drops the ball until the problem is fully fixed.
The staff is consistently polite and knowledgeable, making every interaction professional, helpful, and easy to understand.
We are glad to count on CSS. The company communicates in a rapid manner and is always there to find a solution. Thank you for being so flexible for small businesses.
This company has an excellent, skilled team of what I deem absolute experts in the field; their years of experience and talent are unmatched.
CSS has exceeded our expectations. They even handled an emergency that happened on a holiday weekend.
CSS understands our environment and responds fast when something comes up. They got our documentation and controls in order without disrupting how we work.
PRIMEX needed dependable cybersecurity insight; SecuredbyCSS delivered expert-led sessions that became a trusted resource.
Facing the need for fast, expert help, this small business gained a dependable partner known for responsive support and flexibility.
Facing the need for a dependable partner, the organization gained responsive support, stronger communication, and a smoother project experience.
Shared operations with defined accountability
Co-managed IT starts by defining who owns each responsibility. CSS can work alongside internal staff or an incumbent provider to document roles for help desk, patching, endpoint protection, identity controls, reporting, and compliance support. This reduces confusion, avoids duplicated work, and gives leadership a practical operating model for security readiness.
The goal is not to replace a trusted IT resource. It is to add the missing security and compliance capacity.
Before controls are implemented, CSS helps identify what is actually in scope. For defense contractors, that can include CUI data flow mapping, compliance boundary definition, asset categorization, and enclave planning when needed. This approach helps reduce unnecessary implementation work and keeps costs tied to the environment that truly requires protection.
Clear scoping gives your IT team a better roadmap and helps avoid hidden compliance gaps.
CSS adds managed security operations where many internal IT teams need extra depth. Services can include managed EDR/XDR, DNS filtering, firewall support, VPN and secure remote access, device hardening, patch management, mobile device protection, and 24/7 U.S.-based SOC response. Alerts are handled as part of an operational lifecycle: detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and reporting.
Your team gains stronger coverage without carrying every security task alone.
Regulated organizations need more than technical fixes. CSS supports the documentation and evidence work that frameworks often require, including policy and procedure templates, POA&M and SSP management, compliance dashboard reporting, mock assessment preparation, and control alignment for CMMC and NIST 800-171. Support can also align with obligations such as HIPAA Security Rule safeguards, GLBA, and IRS Pub 4557.
This helps make readiness visible and repeatable.
Identity and data protection are core parts of co-managed support. CSS can help your team strengthen MFA, role-based access control, login auditing, email encryption, phishing defense, data loss prevention, and FIPS 140-2 validated encryption where required. These controls help protect sensitive client, patient, taxpayer, financial, and CUI data while supporting daily productivity.
Security is built around how users actually work, not just how a checklist reads.
Co-managed IT should make support easier to route, not harder. CSS provides specialized assistance for security operations, compliance questions, readiness tasks, and managed technology components while your existing IT resources continue handling agreed daily responsibilities. Full-service clients can also receive help desk support and compliance concierge guidance.
The result is a cleaner support path, better accountability, and fewer unresolved gaps.
Your current IT team may already know the business, users, and systems. Co-managed IT services add specialized cybersecurity and compliance support without forcing a rip-and-replace decision. CSS works in good faith with internal staff or incumbent providers to define responsibilities, strengthen controls, and keep daily operations moving.
The engagement starts with scope. For regulated organizations, that may include compliance boundary definition, CUI data flow mapping, asset categorization, and practical scope reduction. From there, CSS can support monitoring, endpoint protection, patching, identity controls, evidence collection, and readiness documentation inside an integrated framework built for ongoing protection.
Co-managed support gives your organization access to security operations, compliance experience, and hands-on technical execution while your existing team keeps ownership of the environment.
Compliance is easier to manage when security tasks, evidence, and reporting are part of daily operations. CSS helps translate requirements into working controls, not disconnected checklists. That can include MFA, role-based access control, login auditing, DNS filtering, email encryption, DLP, FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, and GCC or GCC High Microsoft 365 support where appropriate.
For defense contractors and regulated firms, the result is a more accountable IT operating model. Your team gets specialized assistance for the controls that require deeper security expertise, while leadership gains clearer visibility into risk, readiness, and what remains out of scope.
Define responsibilities, strengthen coverage, and reduce IT burden.
Co-managed IT services for regulated organizations provide a combination of security operations, compliance expertise, and daily technical support while your internal IT team retains control of your environment. You get managed EDR/XDR with 24/7 SOC response, patching, device hardening, secure remote access, policy and procedure templates, POA&M and SSP management, compliance dashboards, and support for frameworks like CMMC, NIST 800-171, HIPAA, GLBA, and IRS Pub 4557. This approach closes security gaps and aligns your IT operations with industry regulations without requiring you to replace your current staff.
Co-managed IT services allow you to keep your existing IT team in place while adding specialized cybersecurity and compliance support. This means:
You gain operational depth and reduce the risk of compliance gaps or costly errors.
The engagement begins with a detailed scoping process to define your compliance boundary, map CUI data flows, and categorize assets. From there, responsibilities are clearly divided between your team and the external provider, ensuring transparency and reducing overlap. Security controls, monitoring, and compliance documentation are then integrated into your daily operations, with ongoing support for technical execution, evidence collection, and audit readiness.
Pricing for co-managed IT services is transparent and based on the actual scope defined during the initial assessment, so you only pay for what is relevant to your organization. A published pricing calculator is available to help estimate costs upfront. Most organizations can begin the onboarding process within days of contract execution, though the full implementation timeline depends on your current security posture and specific compliance requirements.
This provider stands out by starting every co-managed IT services engagement with a comprehensive scoping process, ensuring you avoid unnecessary work and inflated costs. The team brings proven experience supporting defense contractors, healthcare, legal, accounting, and financial firms with end-to-end compliance management, 24/7 SOC, and $3M cyber liability insurance per engagement. You benefit from hands-on operational support, published pricing, and a commitment to working collaboratively with your existing IT staff, not replacing them.