Every industry answers to different regulators, runs on different systems and faces different attackers. North Star delivers IT support and cybersecurity built around your industry — not a generic package — for businesses across the Denver metro area, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. Choose your field below to see exactly how we protect it.
Below are the industries we specialize in and the regulations each one answers to. Underneath every program is the same deep set of security and IT capabilities, configured for the way your business actually works.
Money and account data make financial firms a prime target, and regulators from the SEC to the FTC expect provable safeguards. Our financial services cybersecurity program covers the whole sector, with dedicated guidance for accounting and tax firms (IRS Publication 4557, the WISP requirement and the FTC Safeguards Rule), investment advisors and trading firms (SEC Regulation S-P and FINRA), and banks and credit unions (GLBA, FFIEC and NCUA).
Healthcare is the most-attacked industry there is, and HIPAA holds providers responsible for protecting patient data. Our healthcare cybersecurity program serves medical and specialty practices, behavioral health and more — with a dedicated page for dental practices and the imaging and practice-management systems they run on.
Law firms hold privileged client information and move money through trust accounts, making them a favorite target for wire fraud and data theft. Our law firm IT support and cybersecurity protects privileged data, client confidentiality and the systems your practice depends on.
Construction firms face wire fraud on large payments, project-data theft and job-site connectivity challenges. Our construction cybersecurity secures bids, contracts, payments and the mobile workforce that runs a modern build.
For defense and aerospace contractors, cybersecurity is now a condition of the contract. Our CMMC compliance and defense contractor cybersecurity readies you against DFARS and NIST SP 800-171, protects Controlled Unclassified Information, and draws on deep roots in the Colorado Springs defense community around Fort Carson, Peterson and Schriever.
Generic IT treats a dental office and a defense contractor the same way. We don’t. An industry-specific approach means:
Whatever your field, the same strong foundation sits underneath, delivered through our managed security services and cyber security program: SASE and Zero Trust access, managed detection and response, immutable cloud backup, and secure Microsoft 365 and cloud migration — plus IT procurement and secure AI adoption, all led by vCISO and compliance-as-a-service and managed as one program.
North Star provides industry-specific IT support and cybersecurity across Colorado’s Front Range, including Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn, Broomfield, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Englewood, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Castle Rock, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Colorado Springs, Monument, Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor and Greeley, along with the surrounding communities. We also support organizations with multiple locations and remote and hybrid staff elsewhere in the United States.
Because the regulations, systems and threats differ enormously between industries. A HIPAA-covered practice, a defense contractor handling Controlled Unclassified Information and an SEC-regulated advisory each need specific controls and documentation. Industry-specific expertise means those requirements are met by design, not discovered during an audit or after a breach.
These are the fields we’ve built dedicated programs for, but the same capabilities protect businesses in many other industries across the Front Range. Reach out and we’ll tailor an assessment to your specific systems, data and compliance obligations.
Yes. Each of our industry programs is built around the real rules that field answers to — HIPAA and HITECH for healthcare, CMMC, DFARS and NIST 800-171 for defense, GLBA, SEC and FTC requirements for finance — and we map every requirement to a concrete control and the documentation to prove it.
Not meaningfully — and it’s far cheaper than the alternative. Getting compliance and security right the first time avoids the fines, breach costs, failed audits and rework that generic IT leaves you exposed to. You’re paying for the right controls, not more of them.
Find your industry above, or talk to us directly. North Star will assess your environment against the rules and threats your field actually faces, show you where the gaps are, and manage a complete, industry-specific program through our managed security services.
Contact North Star today to see how industry-specific IT and cybersecurity protects your Denver, Colorado Springs or Fort Collins business.