NetSys vs. Focus Technology Solutions
Focus Technology Solutions runs from Boston with a New York office in Islandia, which puts it on the shortlist for Suffolk County businesses. Its about page states the company holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certification of its own organization. What each of us publishes, and where that leaves a buyer, is below.
The short answer
When your auditors or your customers ask what controls your IT vendor runs, Focus Technology Solutions publishes that it holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certification of its own organization. That alone is a reason to shortlist them. NetSys is the better fit when you want the privileged access and identity work inside a single base agreement, on month-to-month terms, with no tier deciding which hours are covered.
What Focus Technology Solutions is
Focus Technology Solutions began in 1997, works from a Boston headquarters at 10 Post Office Square, and publishes a New York office at 2990 Express Drive South in Islandia, Suffolk County, the address that arrived with its August 2025 acquisition of Converged Technology Group. Their about page describes serving organizations throughout the Northeast. The site publishes four managed IT tiers, branded Pavis backup products, a security and compliance page naming HITRUST, SOC 2, CMMC, HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS, and an AI and Data practice that lists Virtual Chief AI Officer and Virtual Chief Data Officer roles.
Published headquarters: Boston, MA. focustsi.com
A provider that has been audited itself
Most compliance conversations with an IT provider are about your obligations. Their about page states the company itself is SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certified, which is a different animal: an auditor examined how they operate, over a period, and issued a report. For a biotech, an accounting firm or anyone whose customers send vendor security questionnaires, that report is the document the questionnaire is asking for. Our compliance work faces the client instead, with nine frameworks carrying a service page each, from HIPAA and SOC 2 through NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 and NY SHIELD. Both are useful. They answer different questions.
Which tier carries the clock
Their managed IT page publishes four tiers: IT Premier, IT Assure, IT FlexServ and IT Assist. The unlimited remediation window published under IT Assist runs 7am to 7pm, while 24/7 monitoring, alerting, patching and issue remediation in the data center is published under IT FlexServ. That is a normal way to package managed IT, and it puts a real question on your side of the table: which tier covers the hours your business is exposed. Our monitoring runs 24/7 as part of one agreement, so the answer does not change with the package somebody picked in year one.
Identity management and privileged access
Their security and compliance page lists Identity Management, also described as identity access management, among its security categories, and that discipline answers who gets into what. Privileged access management and privileged identity management answer a narrower question: what an administrator account can do once it is inside, who holds those credentials, and how long they stay live. We publish both as part of the base agreement with a service page each, and we could not find them published on their site. If a ransomware tabletop is anywhere in your future, ask any provider to walk you through domain administrator credential handling specifically.
What each of us publishes
Their column is quoted from pages on focustsi.com and links to each one. Ours states what we commit to elsewhere on this site. Nothing below is our opinion of their work.
| The NetSys Group | Focus Technology Solutions | |
|---|---|---|
| Agreement | Month to month. Leave any time, no early-exit penalty. | We could not find contract length or cancellation terms published on their site. |
| What the monthly fee covers | One agreement: AI services, cybersecurity, managed IT with help desk, PAM, PIM and disaster recovery planning. | Their managed IT services page names four packaged tiers, IT Premier, IT Assure, IT FlexServ and IT Assist, and lists features under each, including live help desk, infrastructure management and monitoring, endpoint management, compliance management, vendor management, and business continuity and disaster recovery. (focustsi.com) |
| Privileged access and credentials | PAM and PIM in the base agreement, each with a published service page describing the work. | Their security and compliance page lists Identity Management, also described as identity access management (IAM), among its security service categories. (focustsi.com) |
| AI and automation | In-house practice led by Jamie Baum: readiness assessments, Copilot rollouts, custom agents and workflow automation. | They publish a named AI and Data Practice with five listed offerings: AI Workshop for Executive Leaders, AI Readiness Assessment, AI Implementation Services, vCAIO (Virtual Chief AI Officer) and vCDO (Virtual Chief Data Officer). (focustsi.com) |
| Disaster recovery | A written plan plus restores that are performed and timed. More than 30 ransomware incidents handled in three years, every one recovered. | They publish their own branded backup and disaster recovery products, Pavis On-Site and Pavis Cloud, described as restoring information within minutes and as able to stand in as a virtual server while a server is repaired or replaced, and state that Focus monitors, maintains and administers them. (info.focustsi.com) |
| Who answers | A NetSys engineer, plus a named account manager who gives you a real cell number. | Their managed IT services page publishes a 7am-7pm unlimited remediation window for the IT Assist tier and 24/7 monitoring, alerting, patching and issue remediation in the data center for the IT FlexServ tier. (focustsi.com) |
| Response commitments | Written into the agreement rather than implied on the website. | We could not find published response-time commitments. |
| Proof before you commit | A free Tier 1 external penetration test. The findings are yours whether or not you hire us. | Their security and compliance page offers a complimentary cybersecurity assessment and a complimentary security consultation, and describes a compliance gap analysis. (focustsi.com) |
| Where they are | One office, in Brooklyn. On-site coverage across the New York metro, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Florida, and remote delivery anywhere in the US. | They published an August 8, 2025 announcement of their acquisition of Converged Technology Group, described as an IT services provider headquartered on Long Island, NY and established in 2006. (focustsi.com) |
Focus Technology Solutions appears here because it came up in the search results for IT services in Suffolk County, NY when we checked in September 2026. Its nearest published office is in massachusetts. Everything in their column is drawn from pages published on https://www.focustsi.com/ and links to the source. Where we could not find something published we say so, which means we did not find it, not that it does not exist. We make no claim about the quality of their service. All trademarks belong to their owners and no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Four more things worth knowing about Focus Technology Solutions
Size and history
- Their about page states the company began in 1997. (focustsi.com)
NetSys: Independent since 1998. One office, in Brooklyn, and no private equity owner behind the name.
Industries they name
- Their industry pages and site navigation name Financial/Accounting, Legal Services, Architecture and Construction, Professional Services, Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations, Life Sciences (BioTech and Pharma), and Non-Profit. (info.focustsi.com)
NetSys: Twenty six industries with a page each, from healthcare and legal to hedge funds, auto dealers and government contractors.
Compliance work published
- Their security and compliance page names HITRUST, SOC 2, CMMC, HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS as frameworks they work against, and describes a gap-analysis approach. (focustsi.com)
- Their about page states the company itself holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certification. (focustsi.com)
NetSys: Nine frameworks with a service page each: HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, NY SHIELD, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS and GLBA.
Rates on the website
- Their managed services landing page describes a fixed-price monitoring package and customizable packages sized to a company's needs and budget. (info.focustsi.com)
NetSys: We do not publish rates. We quote per business rather than per seat, after a call, because a thirty person firm with two servers and a thirty person firm with a regulator are not the same job.
What we looked for on their site and could not find
contract length or cancellation terms; response-time commitments.
That means we did not find it published, not that it does not exist. Ask them directly, and ask us the same questions. If Focus Technology Solutions publishes any of this and we missed it, write to info@netsysgroup.com and we will add it.
The honest fit: is NetSys the right Focus Technology Solutions alternative?
When Focus Technology Solutions is the better choice
Choose Focus Technology Solutions if you sit in life sciences, biotech, accounting or legal work where clients ask for vendor audit reports, because their own SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certification answers that question directly. The Islandia office puts engineers inside Suffolk County with a Boston headquarters behind them. Their AI and Data practice also publishes Virtual Chief AI Officer and Virtual Chief Data Officer roles, if you want that layer without hiring for it.
When NetSys is the better choice
NetSys makes more sense when the regulator sitting over your business is a New York one. NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 and NY SHIELD each carry a service page here, alongside HIPAA and SOC 2 and the rest of our nine. Privileged access management and privileged identity management sit in the base agreement rather than a tier above it, monitoring runs 24/7, and you can start with a free Tier 1 external penetration test that costs nothing and leaves the findings with you.
NetSys and Focus Technology Solutions: FAQs
What does Focus Technology Solutions include in managed IT?
Their managed IT services page names four packaged tiers, IT Premier, IT Assure, IT FlexServ and IT Assist, and lists features under each, including live help desk, infrastructure management and monitoring, endpoint management, compliance management, vendor management, and business continuity and disaster recovery. Backup runs on their own branded Pavis On-Site and Pavis Cloud products, described as restoring information within minutes and as able to stand in as a virtual server while a failed one is repaired or replaced. Which tier you sign decides how much of that list you get.
Is there a Focus Technology Solutions alternative for Suffolk County?
There is. Long Island sits inside the NetSys on-site coverage area, and we work from a single office in Brooklyn. Everything lives in one month-to-month agreement with 24/7 monitoring, and the privileged access and identity work sits in the base rather than a tier above it. If a vendor audit report is on your requirements list, weigh that in their favor before you weigh anything else.
Can we switch IT providers without downtime?
Yes, when the handover is planned rather than announced. The order is what protects you: credentials and documentation gathered first, then a restore proved out of the existing backups before anything live is touched, then both systems watched together for a while. Providers running standardized tooling usually hand over cleanly, which shortens the inventory work. On terms, we could not find contract length or cancellation language published on the Focus Technology Solutions site, so ask for it. Ours runs month to month with no early-exit penalty, so there is nothing to buy your way out of.
Does Focus Technology Solutions hold its own SOC 2 report?
Their about page states the company is a SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certified organization. That describes their own controls rather than a service they sell you, and it is the kind of statement worth asking to see evidence for, from them or from anybody: request the report, then read the period it covers and the exceptions at the back. NetSys publishes a SOC 2 service page for clients working toward the standard themselves, which is a different thing and worth not confusing with the first.
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