Managed IT Services in Brooklyn
NetSys runs IT for small and mid-sized businesses in Brooklyn: help desk, security, backups, Microsoft 365 and the network, for a flat monthly fee per user. We have run IT out of New York since 1998, and our engineers hold degrees in electrical and computer engineering. 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 managed IT to businesses in Brooklyn: help desk with engineers on the line, 24/7 monitoring, patching, ThreatDown managed detection and response, Microsoft 365 and Intune administration, tested backups and vendor management, for a flat monthly fee per user. 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 managed IT 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 managed IT 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.
Managed IT Services in Brooklyn: what NetSys delivers
Help desk and monitoring
- Unlimited help desk by phone, email and Teams, staffed by engineers rather than a ticket queue, with severe problems such as ransomware, systems down, no internet or email not working answered immediately by your dedicated engineer
- 24/7 monitoring of every server, workstation and firewall through NinjaOne RMM, with alerts an engineer acts on rather than forwards
- Patching and routine maintenance on the schedule your business sets, weekly for some clients and quarterly for others, with urgent fixes applied as needed in between
- Documentation of the whole environment in IT Glue, so the answer to 'what is that box' exists in writing
Security, built in
- ThreatDown managed detection and response with EDR agents on every device, not just servers
- Microsoft Defender for Business, Entra ID Conditional Access and multifactor authentication across the Microsoft 365 tenant
- Barracuda Email Protection in front of every mailbox, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set correctly
- KnowBe4 security awareness training and simulated phishing for every user, on a recurring schedule
Backups, devices and vendors
- Datto SIRIS or Veeam backups with immutable off-site copies, and live restores run on the schedule in the agreement with the result sent to you
- Intune and Windows Autopilot device management, so a new laptop ships sealed and configures itself at first sign-in
- Vendor management: we deal with the ISP, the line-of-business software vendor and the landlord's building IT
- A quarterly technology review with a written roadmap and budget, run by the engineer who knows your environment
A 60-person distributor or light manufacturer in Downtown Brooklyn
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 60-seat distributors and light manufacturers in Downtown Brooklyn that grew out of its setup: QuickBooks Enterprise plus a dozen browser tools, an Exchange Online tenant with no multifactor authentication, a Meraki firewall out of support and a Spectrum Business connection with no failover. Leadership wants one accountable provider instead of three vendors pointing at each other. The owner has become the help desk and the office manager keeps the passwords in a spreadsheet.
- NinjaOne RMM agents deployed to every workstation and server for 24/7 monitoring, patching and remote support
- Microsoft 365 tenant review: dormant accounts closed, legacy authentication switched off, Entra ID Conditional Access and multifactor authentication applied to every user
- Datto SIRIS appliance installed for the server with immutable cloud copies, and a first restore run and dated within the first month
- KnowBe4 onboarding for every user, with a baseline phishing test in week one and recurring training after that
- Cisco Meraki firewall and switches configured with segmentation for servers, staff, printers and guests, and a cellular failover circuit
- Quarterly technology review scheduled, with the first written roadmap and budget delivered at the 90-day mark
One provider is accountable for devices, network, Microsoft 365 and security. Staff call a help desk that fixes things, the insurer gets answers with evidence behind them, and leadership sees a quarterly roadmap instead of surprise invoices. The agreement runs month to month.
Complete managed IT, cybersecurity and help desk for a 20-seat organization
A 20-seat organization handed NetSys the whole of its IT. Devices, network, Microsoft 365 and vendors came under one agreement with 24/7 monitoring and a named account manager; endpoint protection, multifactor authentication, email protection and tested backups went onto all twenty seats; staff got a help desk with engineers on the other end; and every new hire now goes through a defined onboarding process with recurring phishing training. 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. The managed agreement produces the evidence those rules ask for as a by-product: access reviews, patch reports, backup test results and a written incident response plan. 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 managed IT costs in Brooklyn
Managed IT is priced per user per month for a fully managed agreement, and the number moves with four things more than with headcount: how many servers you run, whether you need after-hours coverage beyond monitoring, how much compliance documentation you carry, and whether we are co-managing alongside an internal person or running everything. We quote from an assessment, not a phone call, and the agreement runs month to month. What belongs in the monthly fee versus what is billed separately is set out on our managed IT pricing page.
Who this fits, and who it does not
Best fit: 10 to 75 employees, one or two offices plus remote staff, already on Microsoft 365 or ready to move there, and either no internal IT or one person who is underwater.
Not a fit: businesses under five people, who are usually better served by the small-office baseline described in our five-person case study, or organizations over 250 seats, which need an internal team we can co-manage with rather than replace.
Read next
Industry pages: IT for Healthcare · IT for Nonprofits
Terms used on this page: Managed Service Provider (MSP) · Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) · Patch Management
Guides: the questions to ask before signing with an MSP · what managed IT costs per user in 2026
Related pages
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Managed IT Services in Brooklyn: FAQs
What happens to our current provider?
We run the transition. That means collecting credentials and documentation, auditing what is actually deployed against what you are paying for, and cutting over in stages. Three to four weeks is typical for a 20-seat office, with no downtime during business hours, and the old provider's access is removed at the end.
What tools do you use to manage our systems?
NinjaOne for remote monitoring and management, IT Glue for documentation, ThreatDown for managed detection and response, Microsoft Defender for Business, Intune and Entra ID for devices and identity, Barracuda for email protection, Datto or Veeam for backups, KnowBe4 for training and Keeper for passwords. Licensing for those tools is included in the agreement rather than added on.
How quickly do you respond to a problem?
Severe problems get an immediate response from your dedicated engineer: ransomware, systems down, no internet, email that has stopped working. Everything else is worked by severity, so a request to add a printer is scheduled rather than treated as an outage. The help desk is staffed by engineers, and 24/7 monitoring means many problems are worked before anyone calls.
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.
Get the whole of your IT handled by one accountable team.
Tell us how many people and devices you have, what you run today and what keeps breaking. We come back with a written scope, the responsibilities on each side and a monthly figure, before you decide anything.