IT Consulting in Brooklyn
NetSys provides IT consulting to businesses in Brooklyn: written assessments, roadmaps with real numbers, cloud and Microsoft 365 migrations, network designs, compliance programs and a virtual CIO who stays for the quarterly review. Engineers since 1998, not a sales deck. Our office is at 1 Prospect Park SW in Brooklyn, so our office is in Park Slope, so Downtown Brooklyn is 10 minutes, DUMBO and Sunset Park 15 to 20, and Williamsburg or Bay Ridge about half an hour; engineers come to you for the work that needs hands, and monitoring and help desk run remotely around the clock. Most clients run between 10 and 75 seats, and every agreement is month to month.
The short answer
NetSys provides IT consulting to businesses in Brooklyn: assessments, technology roadmaps with costs, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, network and office designs, security and compliance programs and virtual CIO reviews. Engineers come to you for the work that needs hands; monitoring and help desk run remotely around the clock from our Brooklyn office. Most clients run between 10 and 75 seats, and every agreement is month to month.
How IT consulting is delivered in Brooklyn
Our office is at 1 Prospect Park SW in Brooklyn, so our office is in Park Slope, so Downtown Brooklyn is 10 minutes, DUMBO and Sunset Park 15 to 20, and Williamsburg or Bay Ridge about half an hour; engineers come to you for the work that needs hands, and monitoring and help desk run remotely around the clock. The buildings decide a lot of the design. Industry City and the Navy Yard have modern fiber, but converted lofts in Gowanus, Bushwick and Sunset Park often run on a single coax circuit with a consumer router the landlord installed, and mixed-use buildings share risers with residential tenants, so segmentation and failover get designed on the first site visit. The carriers we see most in Brooklyn are Verizon Fios, Spectrum Business and Optimum Business, and the failover design starts with which of them actually reach your building.
Who IT consulting in Brooklyn is built for
Most of our Brooklyn work sits in Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Industry City, Williamsburg and Bay Ridge: medical and dental practices on Dentrix, nonprofits and social-service agencies on Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, creative studios and agencies on HubSpot, contractors and trades on Procore, distributors and light manufacturers on QuickBooks Enterprise, and property managers on AppFolio. Each carries its own compliance load, which the section below covers, and each has a line-of-business vendor we coordinate with rather than work around. Companies with an internal IT person fit too; in that case we supply the monitoring, the security stack and the after-hours coverage behind them, and they keep their projects.
What tends to go wrong in Brooklyn
Two things shape the continuity design here. First, the weather and the grid: Sandy put water in Red Hook and Gowanus telecom rooms in 2012, and that is still the design case for anything below grade: off-site backups and a wireless failover path. Second, the attacks that actually land locally are ordinary ones, and the public record shows how they go: the September 2022 ransomware attack on Suffolk County government, which took county systems offline for weeks and was traced to an unpatched, internet-facing server. The controls in the next section are the ones that would have changed those stories.
IT Consulting in Brooklyn: what NetSys delivers
Assessment and roadmap
- A written assessment of every system, account, vendor and risk, produced from discovery rather than a questionnaire
- A 12-to-36-month technology roadmap with costs, sequencing and the decisions that depend on each other
- Budget modeling that compares an on-premises refresh with Microsoft 365, Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop on the same basis
- Vendor and contract review: licensing, ISP, telecom, software and support agreements, with what to cancel and what to renegotiate
Projects, designed and run
- Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations planned around identity first, with Entra ID, Conditional Access and Intune designed before data moves
- Network and office designs: Cisco Meraki or Fortinet firewalls, segmentation, Wi-Fi and failover, specified before the fit-out starts
- Security and compliance programs mapped to the standard you answer to, whether HIPAA, NYDFS Part 500, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2 or a cyber insurer's questionnaire
- Project management with a named engineer, a written plan, acceptance checks and a cutover that happens outside business hours
Ongoing advisory
- Virtual CIO service: a quarterly review with leadership covering risk, spend, projects and what changed
- IT due diligence for acquisitions, leases and vendor decisions, with findings in writing
- Line-of-business application decisions coordinated with the vendor, from CRM selection (Salesforce, HubSpot, GoHighLevel) to ERP
- An engineer who knows your environment on call for the decisions that come up between reviews
A 45-person distributor or light manufacturer in Williamsburg
The specific engagements behind this profile are under NDA, so it is written as a generalization rather than a named client. Our published, client-approved outcomes are in case studies.
A distributor or light manufacturer in Williamsburg with 45 staff, two offices on two different systems, and a leadership team that wants one. The Microsoft 365 tenant was set up by a former employee and nobody knows what it can do. QuickBooks Enterprise lives on one side, the other side runs on spreadsheets, and the identity, file and email layers were never designed to be shared. A compliance questionnaire arrived in the middle of it.
- Licensing audit of Microsoft 365 and the security stack, with unused seats reclaimed and Business Premium compared with the tools bought separately
- CRM decision run with the vendor in the room: Salesforce, HubSpot and GoHighLevel compared against the sales process the team actually follows
- Project plan with a named engineer, acceptance checks for each phase and a cutover scheduled outside business hours
- Virtual CIO cadence set: quarterly reviews with a roadmap, a budget and a change log, starting at the 90-day mark
- Discovery across every server, cloud tenant, device, circuit and contract, documented in IT Glue and reviewed with leadership before anything is proposed
- Workload-by-workload cloud assessment: each on-premises system sized for Azure, priced against a hardware refresh, and sequenced by dependency
The company knows what it has, what it should change and what each option costs, in one document it can act on. The projects that follow have a plan, an owner and acceptance checks, and the same engineer runs the quarterly review afterwards. Month to month.
On-prem servers to Azure and OneDrive to SharePoint
Two migrations in one engagement. The client's servers lived in the office, so the business lived with the office's power, cooling and hardware age, and years of files sat in individual OneDrive accounts shared ad hoc. NetSys assessed and sized each workload and moved it into Azure with identity anchored in Entra ID, designed a SharePoint structure of sites by function and permissions by role before moving a single file, migrated the OneDrive estate into it, set backups for both platforms and took on day-to-day management. The write-up is limited to the scope delivered, with no outcome figures claimed.
Compliance in Brooklyn: the SHIELD Act and what sits on top of it
If you hold personal information on a resident of New York, the New York SHIELD Act (General Business Law § 899-bb) requires any business holding private information on a New York resident, with no employee-count threshold, to keep reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards, and § 899-aa sets the breach-notification duty. Small businesses get a scaled standard, not an exemption. Licensed financial businesses add NYDFS Part 500 (amended in November 2023, with multifactor authentication, asset inventories and annual certification now expected of nearly every covered entity). Healthcare practices layer HIPAA on top, and advisory firms answer to the SEC and FINRA. Consulting engagements map each requirement to a control, an owner and the evidence an auditor or insurer will ask for, before anything is bought. Most firms we take over have none of it documented, which is the part that matters if you ever have to demonstrate compliance, so the documentation is built during onboarding rather than sold as a separate project.
What IT consulting costs in Brooklyn
Consulting is priced by the project or by the review rather than by the hour: an assessment has a fixed price based on the size of the environment, a migration is quoted from the workload inventory, and virtual CIO advisory is a monthly figure that scales with how many reviews and decisions a year you need. What moves the number is the number of systems and sites, the compliance standard in play and whether we are also managing the environment afterwards. Every quote is written from discovery, and the terms run month to month.
Who this fits, and who it does not
Best fit: 10 to 150 employees, a decision on the table that involves cloud, an office move, an acquisition, a compliance program or a system nobody trusts, and leadership that wants options with numbers rather than a sales deck.
Not a fit: businesses looking for staff augmentation by the hour, or projects where the outcome has already been decided and only a signature is wanted. We consult to reach the right answer, which sometimes means telling you not to buy something.
Read next
Industry pages: IT for Healthcare · IT for Nonprofits
Terms used on this page: Virtual CIO (vCIO) · Microsoft Entra ID · Zero Trust
Guides: the cloud migration questions owners ask most · Google Workspace versus Microsoft 365 for a small business
Related pages
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Also in Brooklyn: Cybersecurity · Network Security & Monitoring · Backup & Disaster Recovery · Managed IT Services · IT Support
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Related services: Azure Cloud Migration · Virtual CIO (vCIO) · Microsoft 365 Migration · IT Due Diligence Services
IT Consulting in Brooklyn: FAQs
What happens after the roadmap is delivered?
Either your team runs it, we run the projects, or we take on the environment under a managed agreement. The quarterly virtual CIO review keeps the roadmap, the budget and the risk register current whichever way you choose.
How is IT consulting different from managed IT services?
Managed IT runs your environment every day: help desk, monitoring, security, backups. Consulting answers a question or delivers a project: whether to move to Azure, how to pass an audit, what a new office needs, what an acquisition target's IT will cost. Many clients use both, with consulting decisions feeding the managed roadmap.
Do you charge by the hour?
No. Assessments carry a fixed price based on the size of the environment, projects are quoted from the inventory, and virtual CIO advisory is a monthly figure. Terms run month to month, and the scope of every engagement is written down before it starts.
Do you have an office in Brooklyn?
Our office is at 1 Prospect Park SW, Suite 6E, Brooklyn, NY 11215, and our office is in Park Slope, so Downtown Brooklyn is 10 minutes, DUMBO and Sunset Park 15 to 20, and Williamsburg or Bay Ridge about half an hour. Engineers come to you for anything the help desk cannot fix remotely, and monitoring runs around the clock from Brooklyn. Every agreement is month to month.
Does the NY SHIELD Act apply to a small business?
Yes. It applies to any business holding private information on a New York resident, with no employee-count threshold. Small businesses get a scaled standard, meaning safeguards appropriate to their size, but not an exemption, and the breach-notification duty under § 899-aa applies to everyone.
Bring the decision you are stuck on.
A cloud move, a merger, a compliance deadline, a system nobody trusts. Tell us what you run and what has to change, and an engineer comes back with an assessment, options with real numbers and the order to do them in.