North Star has kept Colorado businesses running since 1992. Today that means managed IT and cybersecurity together — from the Denver metro area to Colorado Springs and Fort Collins — with particular expertise in regulated and security-conscious organizations where technology can’t be left to chance.
North Star is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider based in Northglenn, Colorado, serving businesses of roughly 5 to 300 endpoints across the Front Range since 1992. We run both sides of the work — the day-to-day IT that keeps your business operating, and the security program that keeps it protected — with particular depth in regulated industries where a compliance obligation makes technology a board-level concern.
Most providers do IT or security and subcontract the other. We do both in one team, which removes the gap where each vendor assumes the other handled something. That extends to newer work as well, including secure AI adoption and vendor-neutral IT procurement.
Helpdesk, monitoring, patching, cloud administration and technology planning for a predictable monthly fee — one accountable team for everything that keeps your business running.
Around-the-clock detection and response, vulnerability management, security awareness training, and the control evidence your auditors and insurers ask for.
We extend your internal technologist instead of replacing them — covering nights, vacations, security operations and the specialist projects nobody has time for.
Documented security leadership without a full-time executive hire, mapped to HIPAA, CMMC, GLBA and the FTC Safeguards Rule, with the audit-ready evidence your assessors ask for.
Put AI to work on the repetitive processes eating your team’s time — with governance, access control and data handling settled before anything goes live.
How nearly every relationship here begins. We inventory what is actually running, test whether your controls work, and hand you a ranked, budgeted roadmap.
The fundamentals are consistent; the obligations and the threats are not. We build each program around the regulations and attack patterns that field actually faces.
HIPAA-focused security for medical practices and clinics — protecting patient records and imaging systems without disrupting the schedule.
Accounting and tax practices, advisories, trading firms, banks and credit unions — with the documented controls SEC, FTC and GLBA examiners expect.
Secure, serverless IT for law firms — protecting privileged client data, stopping wire fraud, and meeting your ethical obligations.
Stopping wire fraud and ransomware, securing the connected job site, and meeting owner and general contractor flow-down requirements.
We prepare defense contractors and manufacturers for CMMC assessment — scoping CUI, closing NIST SP 800-171 gaps, and producing the evidence your assessor will ask for.
Metro, water and sanitation, fire protection, park and library districts — with the records, transparency and notification controls Colorado law requires.
We also support dental practices, CPA and accounting firms, financial advisors and trading firms, banks and credit unions, manufacturers, real estate, property management and HOAs, nonprofits and automotive dealerships and shops — see all industries we serve.
Our technicians are expected to explain the situation in terms you can act on. If you need a translator, we have failed.
Plenty gets solved remotely, but some things need a person in the room. Our technicians work across the Front Range and come to you when that is the right answer.
We are an MSP and an MSSP. One team owns the environment and the controls protecting it, so nothing falls between two vendors.
The people who own this company came up through the service department. When something escalates, it reaches someone who can fix it rather than someone who files a ticket.
HIPAA, CMMC, GLBA, the FTC Safeguards Rule, CORA and CCIOA are not frameworks we look up when asked. They shape how we build and document your environment.
We are not a single vendor’s channel partner dressed up as an advisor. Hardware and software are sourced competitively through our IT procurement service, and we will tell you when what you already own is good enough.
We support organizations across Colorado’s Front Range, including Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn, Broomfield, Commerce City, Brighton, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Englewood, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Castle Rock, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Colorado Springs, Monument, Fountain, Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor and Greeley, along with the surrounding communities and clients running remote and hybrid teams.
A managed service provider takes responsibility for your technology for a predictable monthly fee — helpdesk support, monitoring, patching, backup, cloud administration and technology planning. Unlike hourly break-fix support, the incentives align: preventing problems is cheaper for both sides.
Roughly 5 to 300 endpoints. Our strongest fit is regulated firms with no full-time IT staff, or with one internal technologist who needs depth behind them.
Yes. Compliance is core to what we do rather than an add-on. We prepare your organization for assessment and certification — running the risk assessments, tracking control status in a managed compliance platform, and producing the policies, access reviews, training records and evidence your auditor or assessor asks for. Legal interpretation stays with your counsel, and the certification itself is awarded to you by the accredited assessor; the technical controls and documentation are ours.
With an assessment. We inventory what is actually running, test whether your existing controls work, and give you a ranked, budgeted roadmap — whether or not you engage us afterward.
Whether you are outgrowing hourly support, facing a compliance requirement, or simply want an independent second opinion on how exposed your business is, the first conversation costs nothing. Call 303-552-0018 or book a time below.