IT Services & Cybersecurity in Atlanta, GA
Metro Atlanta has the world's busiest passenger airport, 16 Fortune 500 headquarters and a payments industry the state credits with about 70% of U.S. payment transactions. NetSys is an IT company that gives organizations across the metro, from Downtown and Midtown to Alpharetta and Marietta, one firm for managed IT, help desk support, cybersecurity and consulting, delivered remotely from Brooklyn.
The short answer
NetSys is an IT company for Atlanta-area organizations that want one accountable provider instead of a patchwork: managed IT, a help desk answered by engineers, cybersecurity built on ThreatDown managed detection and response, Microsoft 365 and Intune, backups, networking and project consulting. The whole service is remote and cloud-based. We have no Atlanta office and do not send engineers on site in Georgia; laptops ship through Windows Autopilot, and your staff or a cabling contractor connects other equipment while we confirm it. Atlanta keeps Eastern time like our Brooklyn office, so the 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. help desk hours are your hours, and monitoring never stops. Managed IT is priced per user per month after an assessment.
- One office, in Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta is about 745 miles away and is served remotely, with no engineers sent on site
- Laptops ship enrolled in Intune and Windows Autopilot; network equipment arrives configured for your staff or cabling contractor to connect
- Monitoring and emergency service run 24/7; the help desk is staffed seven days a week from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time, which is Atlanta's local time
- Month-to-month agreements and 98% client retention
What one IT company handles for an Atlanta organization
Most growing Atlanta companies need everything an IT department does without having one. NetSys covers that work under a single agreement. Engineers answer staff calls and fix problems live. NinjaOne keeps every computer and server patched and watched, ThreatDown detects and contains attacks, Microsoft 365 and Intune are administered properly, Barracuda filters mail, Keeper holds passwords, and Datto or Veeam backs up servers and cloud data with restores we test. We run the network too: the Fortinet or Meraki firewall, switches, Wi-Fi and the AT&T, Comcast or Google Fiber circuit coming into the suite. When the trouble belongs to an outside company, such as the phone platform, the copier lessor or the firm behind your practice or warehouse software, we work the ticket with them. Documentation lives in IT Glue and is yours to keep, and your account manager meets with you each quarter to review aging hardware, renewals and the next projects.
How support reaches Atlanta without local technicians
Support runs over connections that are already in place. Each computer carries the NinjaOne agent, the Microsoft 365 tenant is administered directly, and the firewall reports to its cloud console, so an engineer in Brooklyn can reset a locked account in Sandy Springs or contain an alert on a laptop in Smyrna within minutes. There are no NetSys technicians in Georgia and none will be sent; the proposal says so. Equipment is prepared before it travels. Laptops are enrolled in Windows Autopilot by the supplier and delivered to the office or an employee's home, network gear is configured in advance, and someone on your side, often the office manager or the building's low-voltage contractor, plugs it in while our engineer checks the result. Written commitments give critical issues a ten-minute phone response and a thirty-minute remote response, and severe problems such as ransomware or a dead circuit go directly to your dedicated engineer.
Atlanta industries and the systems they depend on
Atlanta's economy is built on moving things, money and information. Hartsfield-Jackson handled about 106.3 million passengers in 2025, the most of any airport, and Norfolk Southern, UPS and Delta anchor a supply chain sector the Metro Atlanta Chamber counted at about 184,000 employees in 2021. Georgia's banking regulator says about 70% of U.S. payment transactions flow through companies with operations in the state, and processors such as Global Payments and Fiserv rank among Alpharetta's top employers. Corporate headquarters such as The Home Depot and Coca-Cola support law, accounting, consulting and engineering firms that serve them, and independent medical and dental practices refer into the region's large health systems. Film and television production adds studios, post-production houses and agencies. Each of these runs a specialized system, whether a warehouse or transportation platform, a payment or CRM stack, an EHR, a document management system or shared media storage, and each needs IT shaped around that system and its rules.
From Downtown to Alpharetta: offices, circuits and commutes
The metro's offices sit in a handful of districts with very different buildings. Downtown and Midtown, around Tech Square and Georgia Tech, have high-rises where several carriers usually reach the riser. Buckhead's Peachtree Road towers are similar. Perimeter Center, Cumberland and the GA 400 office parks in Alpharetta were built later and more spread out, and many suites there still depend on one Comcast or AT&T circuit. Marietta, Duluth and Peachtree Corners add flex and light industrial space where Wi-Fi has to cover warehouses as well as desks. Wherever the office is, a second internet path from a different carrier or a cellular link is the cheapest insurance a business can buy. Atlanta traffic shapes the rest: with staff commuting across I-285 or working from home in Cobb, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, laptops, files and sign-in have to work from anywhere, which is how we build them.
Ransomware, storms and outages close to Atlanta
The region has a long public record of disruption, and it informs how we plan. SamSam ransomware disabled City of Atlanta systems in March 2018. Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, shut down its pipeline after ransomware in May 2021. LockBit hit Fulton County in January 2024, and Cobb County took court and jail systems offline after an intrusion in March 2025. Not every outage is an attack: water main breaks closed downtown and Midtown businesses in late May and early June 2024, a faulty security update in July 2024 forced Atlanta-based Delta to cancel more than 5,000 flights, and Helene's 2024 disaster declaration covered 94 Georgia counties. Our plan covers both kinds of trouble: ThreatDown monitoring, multifactor sign-in and immutable backups for attacks, and cloud files, battery backup and cellular failover for the days the building is shut. NetSys has handled more than 30 ransomware incidents in three years and recovered every one.
Georgia law and industry rules for Atlanta businesses
Georgia's breach statute, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-912, applies directly to information brokers and government data collectors, and it requires anyone who maintains data on their behalf to report a breach to them within 24 hours of discovering it. For most Atlanta businesses the binding rules are industry ones. Lawyers follow Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6, whose Comment 24 calls for reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to client information. Medical practices follow the HIPAA Security Rule. Tax preparers fall under the FTC Safeguards Rule and IRS Publication 4557. Merchants and processors answer to PCI DSS, and defense suppliers to DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST SP 800-171, with CMMC Phase 2 suspended since July 13, 2026. Customers' home-state breach laws can apply as well. This is general information, not legal advice.
Towns and neighborhoods we cover around Atlanta, GA
- Downtown Atlanta
- Midtown and Tech Square
- Buckhead
- West Midtown
- Perimeter Center
- Sandy Springs
- Dunwoody
- Cumberland and the Galleria
- Smyrna
- Marietta
- Kennesaw
- Alpharetta
- Roswell
- Johns Creek
- Peachtree Corners
- Duluth
- Lawrenceville
- Decatur
- College Park
- Peachtree City
Examples of our client work
- Logistics and warehousing
Refrigerated food storage operator
Backup and disaster recovery planning for 4 servers, recovery testing, and redundant internet connections across two facilities.
- Architecture and engineering
Civil engineering firm
Migration of 3 TB of project data to Azure, secure access for 55 employees, and cloud backup configuration.
Azure Cloud MigrationIT for Architecture and Engineering Firms
- Accounting firms
Corporate accounting firm
Migration of 2 TB of business data to Azure, secure remote access for 42 employees, and backup and recovery configuration.
Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Atlanta, GA client.
Services in Atlanta, GA
Industry depth: IT for Healthcare · IT for Law Firms · IT for Financial Firms · Agencies · Logistics · Consulting Firms
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Nearby: Birmingham, AL · Chattanooga, TN · Nashville, TN
Atlanta, GA FAQs
Who provides IT services in Atlanta?
Many firms do, from one-person shops to national providers with Atlanta branches. NetSys is a Brooklyn-based managed IT and cybersecurity company, founded in 1998, that supports Atlanta-area organizations remotely rather than from a local office. You get engineers with degrees in electrical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science and Cisco and Microsoft certifications, one month-to-month agreement covering support, security, Microsoft 365, backups, networking and vendors, and an account manager with a real cell number. If your office needs someone walking the floor every week, an Atlanta-based firm is the better choice, and we would rather say so up front.
How does IT support work for Atlanta organizations?
Picture an IT department that lives in your systems and on the phone instead of down the hall. Staff reach engineers by phone, email or Teams from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern every day, and the engineer connects to the device and fixes the problem during the call. Overnight, monitoring and emergency service take over. No NetSys technician is sent to Atlanta offices; equipment is configured before it ships and your team connects it with guidance. The four severe cases, ransomware, systems down, no internet and email down, bypass the queue and go to your dedicated engineer.
How much do IT services cost for an Atlanta business?
Managed IT and IT support are billed per user per month, with the figure set after an assessment, and projects are quoted after scoping. We do not publish rates because the drivers vary so much: the number of people and computers, servers still running in a closet, how many sites and circuits are involved, shared computers at a front desk or on a warehouse floor, and the compliance documentation your industry requires, from PCI DSS to HIPAA. Licenses and hardware are billed separately at quoted prices. Every agreement runs month to month, with no exit penalty.
How does remote onboarding work for businesses in Atlanta, GA?
It happens over video calls and remote tools and usually finishes within a month. The first call maps your people, locations, software and current provider. Next, each computer gets the NinjaOne and ThreatDown agents, which produce an inventory we turn into a written plan for your approval. Changes then follow a set order: multifactor sign-in by department, the Keeper password vault, Barracuda email filtering, and backups confirmed by restoring real data. Laptops past their useful life are replaced by new ones enrolled in Autopilot and shipped to the office or to employees' homes anywhere in the metro.
What services do you offer to businesses in Atlanta, GA?
The full range an internal IT team would cover. Daily operations: the help desk, device management and patching, Microsoft 365 and Intune administration, and backups. Security: ThreatDown managed detection and response, Barracuda email protection, KnowBe4 training, Rapid7 scanning and Keeper. Infrastructure: Fortinet or Meraki firewalls, switching, Wi-Fi and carrier management. Projects: office moves, file-server-to-SharePoint migrations, Windows 11 refreshes and retiring Windows Server 2016 machines before support ends on January 12, 2027. Our Atlanta managed IT, IT support, cybersecurity and IT consulting pages go deeper on each.
Do you cover Alpharetta, Marietta and the rest of the metro?
Yes. Because the service is remote, an office in Alpharetta, Marietta, Duluth, Decatur or Peachtree City is handled exactly like one in Midtown, provided it has a dependable internet connection. Companies with several locations across the metro get one standard for all of them: the same firewall rules and Wi-Fi design, the same Intune policies on every laptop and one Microsoft 365 tenant. Our Alpharetta and Marietta managed IT pages describe what we see most in those two cities, from fintech firms along GA 400 to defense suppliers near Dobbins Air Reserve Base.
Can we test our security before choosing an IT company?
Yes, at no cost. The only free offer NetSys makes is an external penetration test: a remote test of what your organization exposes to the internet, within a scope we agree in writing beforehand. Our engineers probe your public addresses, firewall, VPN, remote access and email and web services for the weaknesses attackers use first, such as open Remote Desktop, unpatched appliances and default passwords. You receive a written report ranked by risk with a fix for each finding, and you are under no obligation to hire us afterward.
How should we choose among IT companies in Atlanta?
Ask who actually answers when staff call, and whether that person can fix the problem or only log it. Ask for response times in writing, the contract length and exit terms, and who owns the documentation if you leave. Ask how the firm handles a ransomware night and how many it has worked; NetSys has handled more than 30 in three years, with every client fully recovered. For an Atlanta company, also ask whether the firm checks carrier options before you sign a lease, and whether it says plainly what it does remotely and what it will not do.
Book a call with an engineer about IT for your Atlanta organization.
Tell us how many people you have, which parts of the metro they work from and what software runs the business. We will explain how remote support would work for you and what it takes to start.