North Star provides managed IT services and cybersecurity for Colorado Springs businesses of roughly 5 to 300 endpoints. We run day-to-day IT and the security program protecting it in one team, and we bring particular depth to the defense and aerospace contractors who make up a large share of the Pikes Peak region’s economy.
Colorado Springs has its own business mix. Alongside the professional services firms, medical practices, contractors and retailers found in any city, it has an unusually dense network of companies that sell to, subcontract for or support the military installations in the region. For those firms, cybersecurity is not optional; it is a condition of keeping the contract. We serve both kinds of business.
If your company handles Controlled Unclassified Information under a Department of Defense contract or subcontract, you face DFARS cybersecurity clauses, the NIST SP 800-171 controls and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Smaller suppliers often discover these obligations when a prime contractor sends a flow-down requirement or a questionnaire with a deadline attached.
We prepare your organization for assessment. That means scoping where controlled information actually lives, building an environment that keeps it inside a defined boundary, implementing and documenting the required controls, maintaining your System Security Plan and plan of action, and producing the evidence an assessor will ask for. The certification itself is awarded to your organization by an accredited assessor; the technical work and documentation are ours. Our CMMC compliance and defense contractor cybersecurity page covers the program in detail, and manufacturers can see our manufacturing cybersecurity page for production-network segmentation.
Most of our clients have no regulator to answer to; they simply need technology that works and protection that holds up. For a Colorado Springs business without a defense contract, a North Star agreement typically covers:
We also support Colorado Springs medical and dental practices, accounting firms, contractors, nonprofits and special districts. See all industries we serve.
We work with organizations across Colorado Springs, Monument, Fountain and the surrounding El Paso County communities, as well as businesses running hybrid and remote teams. North of the Palmer Divide, we serve the Denver metro area and Fort Collins.
Every engagement begins with a network health and security assessment: what is running, whether your protections work, and a ranked, budgeted roadmap. For defense contractors, that assessment includes a gap review against the controls your contract requires. If you want a security-only starting point, request a complimentary cybersecurity risk assessment.
No provider can certify its own clients. Certification is awarded by an accredited assessor or, for some levels, through self-assessment and affirmation by your organization. We prepare you for that assessment: implementing the controls, documenting them and assembling the evidence.
Yes. Most of our clients have no regulatory obligation at all. Defense work is a strength, not a requirement to work with us.
Yes. Most support is delivered remotely because it is fastest, and our technicians travel to Colorado Springs clients when a problem or project needs a person on-site.
Whether you are facing a prime contractor’s flow-down deadline or simply want IT that stops being a distraction, the first conversation costs nothing. Call 303-552-0018 or book a time below.
