Managed security in Plano, Frisco and Collin County

Managed security for Plano and Frisco technology and professional-services firms

Software teams, consultancies, financial firms and growing practices along the North Dallas corridor are cloud-first by default, and so are their risks. SommerTech Solutions offers managed security that protects your identities and data and helps you answer customer security questions with confidence.

A growth corridor built on cloud-first companies

Plano and Frisco sit along the Dallas North Tollway in Collin County, and parts of both cities extend into neighboring Denton County. The area is known for corporate offices and a concentration of technology, software, IT services, financial services, consulting, marketing and engineering firms, along with medical practices, home-service companies and businesses tied to Frisco's sports and entertainment scene. Many of these organizations are young, growing quickly and built on cloud applications rather than on servers in a back room.

Cloud-first changes what needs protecting. Your most valuable assets are likely to be email, shared drives, code repositories, customer data in software-as-a-service tools and the logins that unlock all of them.

Your customers will ask about security before you ask them

For firms that sell to other businesses, a security questionnaire is often part of the sale. Procurement teams ask about access controls, encryption, incident response and employee training, and larger customers may ask whether you have an independent SOC 2 report. Investors and acquirers perform similar due diligence.

We help you build the substance behind the answers: written policies you actually follow, controls that are turned on, and evidence that is easy to produce. SOC 2 reports are issued by independent CPA firms after an audit, so we position our work as readiness support. Our vCISO service is designed for exactly this kind of ongoing, customer-driven security program.

Cloud identity is the new perimeter

When everything lives in the cloud, the sign-in is the front door. For cloud-first teams, we focus on:

  • Single sign-on and multi-factor authentication across business applications, with stronger methods for administrators.
  • Clean onboarding and offboarding, so departed employees and contractors lose access the same day.
  • Least privilege, so a compromised account cannot reach everything.
  • Visibility into software-as-a-service sprawl, including which tools hold customer data and who approved them.
  • Secrets hygiene for engineering teams, such as keeping keys and passwords out of code repositories.

Securing remote and hybrid teams

Laptops are the real offices of a modern firm. We help deploy endpoint detection and response, disk encryption and sensible device policies, and our automated 24/7 monitoring watches for unusual behavior whether a team member is in Legacy West, at home in Prosper or on a hotel network. Training matters just as much, since phishing and fake-invoice fraud target finance and leadership teams at fast-growing companies. See our awareness and phishing training.

Security that scales as headcount grows

A flat monthly plan lets you start with the essentials and add services as the company grows, instead of renegotiating every time you hire. If you are small, you may not need everything we offer, and we will say so. If your growth is fast, we help you put the foundations in place now so questionnaires, renewals and audits do not become fire drills. A cyber insurance renewal is a common first prompt.

Remote-first, with on-site visits across Collin County

Services are delivered remotely by default. On-site visits are available in Plano, Frisco and nearby communities such as McKinney, Allen, Richardson and Prosper. Teams elsewhere in the metroplex can look at our pages for Dallas and Fort Worth.

Ready for a clear picture of where you stand?

Request your free security assessment. Tell us a little about your business through the contact form and we will be in touch. No obligation, no jargon.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can you help us prepare for SOC 2?

We can help you build the policies, controls and evidence that a SOC 2 audit looks for and keep them current. The audit itself and the resulting report are performed by an independent CPA firm. We help you prepare; we do not issue the report.

We are a small startup with a couple of engineers. Is managed security overkill?

Not necessarily, but you may not need everything. Many young companies get the most value from strong sign-in, endpoint protection, email security and a short set of policies. Your free assessment will say what is worth doing now and what can wait.

Do you cover both Plano and Frisco, even though they cross county lines?

Yes. We serve small and mid-size businesses across Collin County, the Denton County portions of these cities and the wider Dallas-Fort Worth area. Where your office is located does not change how we deliver monitoring and advisory services.