IT Services and Cybersecurity in Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs runs on defense and space contracts, two large hospital systems, national sports organizations and the businesses that serve them, and each needs an IT company that answers quickly, locks down Microsoft 365 and can prove its backups work. NetSys provides that to Colorado Springs organizations remotely from Brooklyn, under one month-to-month agreement with a named account manager.
The short answer
NetSys is an IT services and cybersecurity company that supports Colorado Springs organizations remotely from Brooklyn, NY, where its only office is. One agreement can cover the help desk, Microsoft 365 and Intune, ThreatDown managed detection and response, Barracuda email security, restore-tested backups, firewall management and the NIST SP 800-171 or HIPAA evidence your contracts require. Engineers are on the help desk between 2 a.m. and 9 p.m. Mountain, seven days a week, while monitoring and emergency service run 24/7. No NetSys engineer works on site in Colorado Springs; laptops ship enrolled and firewalls ship configured. Pricing for managed IT and IT support is per user, per month, set after an assessment.
- One office, in Brooklyn, NY; Colorado Springs organizations are supported remotely and through the cloud
- NetSys does not send engineers on site in Colorado Springs: laptops ship enrolled through Intune and Windows Autopilot, and firewalls ship with their rules loaded
- 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 (2 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mountain)
- Month-to-month agreements and 98% client retention
What an IT company handles for a Colorado Springs organization
A typical Colorado Springs office that calls NetSys has a Microsoft 365 tenant that has not been reviewed since the day it was created, one business application everyone depends on, laptops bought one at a time and a firewall still on its original settings. We take all of it over as one accountable provider. Staff get a help desk with engineers on it; every computer gets NinjaOne patching and ThreatDown detection; mail runs through Barracuda before it lands; shared passwords move into Keeper; and backups are restored on a calendar, so you know they work before the day you need them. The Colorado Springs managed IT page explains how the whole environment and its vendors are run, the IT support page covers the help desk, devices and accounts, and the cybersecurity page sets out the controls and incident response in detail. Projects such as retiring a server or building an enclave for controlled data are quoted on their own.
How remote onboarding works for Colorado Springs offices
Onboarding happens over video calls, remote sessions and a few shipped boxes. It starts with an assessment: an engineer spends an hour with whoever keeps things running today, installs the NinjaOne agent on each computer and reviews the firewall, Microsoft 365 settings and backup jobs. You then receive a written plan and a per-user price, and nothing is touched until you accept it. The switchover is timed around your calendar, whether that is a proposal deadline, a grant cycle or a month-end close. NetSys does not send engineers on site in Colorado Springs, so the physical pieces travel to you: laptops enrolled through Windows Autopilot and a configured firewall that your staff or cabling contractor connects while an engineer in Brooklyn watches it come online. The two-hour time difference rarely shows, because our help desk opens at 2 a.m. Mountain. Your account manager has a real cell number for anything that does not fit a ticket.
Defense, space and the businesses around the bases
Few cities depend on one industry the way Colorado Springs depends on defense and space. The Colorado Springs Chamber and EDC puts El Paso County's aerospace and defense sector at more than 200 companies and 111,000 jobs, over 40 percent of the local economy, alongside Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, Peterson and Schriever Space Force Bases and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station. The city is also home to Space ISAC, Catalyst Campus and the National Cybersecurity Center. One shift is under way: U.S. Space Command is moving its headquarters to Redstone Arsenal in Alabama in phases, with about 1,400 of its roughly 1,700 positions relocating and half the headquarters staff expected there by the end of 2028. The contractors, suppliers and engineering firms around the bases remain, and their IT question is the same as before: where controlled unclassified information lives, who can reach it, and whether the SPRS score and the evidence behind it would survive a prime's review.
Hospitals, sports bodies and the rest of the local economy
Defense is the largest employer group, not the only one. UCHealth Memorial Hospital and CommonSpirit Health's Penrose Hospital both rank among Colorado's best hospitals, and independent practices across the city refer patients to them, which puts HIPAA evidence and secure referral channels on the list for any medical office. The city says more than two dozen national governing bodies and Paralympic sport organizations are headquartered in Colorado Springs, and with ministries and other national nonprofits they hold donor, member and athlete records that need careful access control. On the southeast side, Peak Innovation Park at the Colorado Springs Airport is a 1,600-acre business park anchored by the Aerospace Corporation's campus, Amazon facilities and Northrop Grumman, with a Frito-Lay distribution center among the newer arrivals. Contractors, home builders and property managers round out the market. Each runs a different core system, and we support the infrastructure around it and work its vendor's tickets.
Circuits, utilities, wildfire and a vendor breach
Internet options vary by address, so we check before designing anything. Comcast Business and Lumen are the long-standing choices, Quantum Fiber, which AT&T bought from Lumen in February 2026, is available in parts of the city, and Ting holds a 25-year lease, signed in January 2022, as anchor tenant on the citywide fiber network Colorado Springs Utilities has been building since 2023. That city-owned utility also supplies electricity, gas and water, so its outage notices belong in your continuity plan. Wildfire is the local design case: the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012 and the Black Forest fire in 2013 each brought a federal disaster declaration for El Paso County, as did the September 2013 floods and the June 2023 storms. Vendor risk is real too. In January 2025, Districts 11, 14 and 49 learned that student, family and staff data had been taken from PowerSchool, the vendor behind their student information system, without any district network failing.
Colorado law and the rules your industry adds
Colorado's baseline reaches every business holding residents' personal information. Section 6-1-713 of the Colorado Revised Statutes calls for a written disposal policy; 6-1-713.5 calls for reasonable security, and for a contract requiring the same of any service provider you hand that information to; and 6-1-716 sets a 30-day clock for telling affected residents after a breach is confirmed, adding the Attorney General once 500 Coloradans are involved. Since July 1, 2023 the Colorado Privacy Act has given consumers rights over their data and placed duties on controllers, nonprofits among them, once they process data on 100,000 Colorado consumers a year. Industry rules supply the detail. Defense suppliers answer to NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS 252.204-7012, with the CMMC Phase 2 certification step on hold since July 13, 2026. Medical practices follow the HIPAA Security Rule, tax preparers the FTC Safeguards Rule and IRS Publication 4557, and SEC-registered advisers Regulation S-P. This is general information, not legal advice.
Towns and neighborhoods we cover around Colorado Springs, CO
- Downtown Colorado Springs
- Old Colorado City
- Briargate
- Interquest
- Northgate
- Rockrimmon
- Broadmoor
- Stetson Hills
- Cimarron Hills
- Banning Lewis Ranch
- Peak Innovation Park
- Manitou Springs
- Fountain
- Security-Widefield
- Monument
- Black Forest
- Falcon
- Woodland Park
- Palmer Lake
Examples of our client work
- Manufacturing
Large manufacturing plant in Virginia
Password management for 125 employees, management of 160 computers, and managed EDR antivirus across production and office devices.
- Healthcare
Three-location urgent care group
IT support for 36 workstations, patient data backups, endpoint protection, and secure networking across all three locations.
- Nonprofits
Nonprofit providing developmental disability services
SharePoint intranet for 120 employees, departmental document libraries, permission controls, and staff onboarding resources.
Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Colorado Springs, CO client.
Services in Colorado Springs, CO
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Colorado Springs, CO FAQs
Who provides IT services and cybersecurity in Colorado Springs?
NetSys provides managed IT, IT support, cybersecurity and IT consulting to Colorado Springs organizations, working remotely from Brooklyn, NY, home to its one and only office. The company was founded in 1998. Its engineers are degreed in electrical engineering, electronics engineering or computer science and certified by Cisco and Microsoft. Everything comes under one month-to-month agreement with a dedicated account manager. We do not claim a Colorado Springs office or local staff; our engineers support you from Brooklyn on Mountain time.
How does IT support work for Colorado Springs organizations?
Remotely and through the cloud. Your staff call, email or message the help desk in Teams, and engineers are on duty from 2 a.m. until 9 p.m. Mountain all week; outside those hours, monitoring and emergency service keep going. A critical problem gets a call back within ten minutes and an engineer working on it remotely within thirty. Because NetSys has no engineers in Colorado Springs and does not travel there, laptops arrive enrolled through Windows Autopilot, firewalls arrive configured, and your staff or a cabling contractor plugs things in while we confirm them.
What do IT services cost a Colorado Springs business?
Both managed IT and IT support carry a monthly fee per user that we calculate after an assessment, so no figure is published. The biggest drivers are the number of servers and sites, the evidence you must keep for a prime contractor, an insurer or HIPAA, any help desk hours you need beyond ours and whether an internal IT person stays involved. Projects, hardware and licenses are priced on their own, and the agreement is month to month without a long-term commitment.
Can you help a Colorado Springs defense contractor with NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC?
Yes. We find where controlled unclassified information lives, build an enclave around it, maintain the system security plan and plan of action, and gather monthly evidence for each of the 110 requirements in NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2. Third-party CMMC certification under Phase 2 is on hold during the Pentagon's review, yet the obligations primes check today have not gone away: self-assessment scores posted in SPRS, the annual affirmation and the DFARS 7012 safeguarding clause.
How long does it take to switch IT providers in Colorado Springs?
A 20-seat office usually takes three to four weeks from the first assessment to a completed switchover. Week one is discovery, week two produces the written plan and price, and the switchover runs in stages after you approve it. We request credentials and documentation from the outgoing provider in writing, keep the old tools running until the new ones are confirmed, and time the changes around your deadlines. Our switching IT providers page sets out the handover checklist in full.
Do you support nonprofits and national sports organizations?
Yes. Nonprofits run the same Microsoft 365, laptops and security tools as any business, plus a donor or member database that holds personal and payment information. We lock that down with multifactor sign-in, role-based access and tested backups, and we help with grant and insurer security questionnaires. The Colorado Privacy Act covers nonprofits that cross its thresholds, which many national organizations with large member lists do, so we also help document where member data lives and who can reach it.
Will you work with our current IT person, or take over from our current provider?
Either works. With an internal IT person, a co-managed agreement leaves them the relationships and everyday requests while NetSys covers monitoring, the security stack, patch management and evenings and weekends, and the agreement spells out who handles what. When you are leaving another provider, we manage the transition: credentials, documentation, licenses and backups move across on a set schedule, and the old tools stay in place until ours are confirmed working.
Get a written IT and security plan for your Colorado Springs office.
Tell us your headcount, the systems you rely on and any contract or compliance requirements. An engineer will walk you through the remote setup, the security baseline and how the monthly fee is set.