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Why OC Tech
What actually changes
when we take over.
Every provider in this market says they are proactive, responsive, and security-focused. Most of them mean it. So this page skips the adjectives and lists six things you can check for yourself before you sign anything. At the bottom we have also written down who we are not a good fit for, because finding that out in month three helps nobody.
The Gap
Nobody owns the space
between your vendors.
An IT provider runs the network. A security installer put the cameras in three years ago and has not been back since. A compliance consultant wrote a policy binder from a round of interviews. Each of them did their own scope correctly.
The problems we find live in between. A camera recorder sitting on the same flat network as the accounting workstations, still on its factory password. A backup job that the IT provider monitors and the compliance document describes, but that nobody has ever actually restored from. An offboarding process that disables the Windows account and leaves the mailbox, the VPN profile, and the paid license running for months.
None of that is any one vendor's fault under their contract. It is all ours when we hold the whole environment, which is the entire argument for doing it this way.
The Difference
Six things you can check
before you sign.
1. We check who is calling before we touch an account
The most effective way into a company right now is not a piece of malware. It is a phone call to the helpdesk from someone who sounds stressed, knows an employee's name and job title, and needs their multi-factor reset before a meeting starts. MGM Resorts and Caesars were both breached this way. It works because helpdesks are measured on how quickly they close tickets, so being helpful and being careful pull in opposite directions.
Our service desk confirms who is calling through Microsoft Authenticator, Duo, SMS, or Teams before anyone resets a password or re-enrolls a factor. It also runs the other way. When one of our engineers calls your staff, they can check the person is genuinely ours before handing over remote access.
The usual alternative: a provider who advertises how fast they answer the phone. Speed at the helpdesk is the exact weakness this attack is built around.2. Physical security is ours, not a referral
We hold California contractor license 1026027 and do low-voltage work ourselves. Cameras, access control, door hardware, and cabling get designed by the same engineers who run your network and firewall. That is why the recorder ends up on its own network segment with credentials that are not the manufacturer's default, and why retention gets sized to the period you actually go back and review footage over rather than whatever the box shipped with.
We are also FAA-licensed drone operators, so on larger properties we can survey a roofline or a yard from above before designing coverage instead of working from a floor plan.
The usual alternative: an IT firm without a contractor's license, sending camera and cabling work to an integrator who never speaks to whoever runs your network.3. A threat gets stopped before anyone calls us
Our security operations center has analysts on it around the clock. They investigate alerts before anything reaches you, and when they confirm an active threat, the affected machine is cut off from the network as the incident is raised. Compromised Microsoft 365 accounts get the same handling: sessions revoked, account disabled, malicious inbox rules removed.
The practical version of this is a Saturday at 2 a.m. Nobody is watching, nobody has noticed, and the machine is already off the network by the time anyone would have thought to phone us.
The usual alternative: a support clock that only starts once someone notices a problem and reports it.4. The price on the proposal is the price
Microsoft 365 licensing sits inside the monthly rate instead of arriving as a separate invoice. We hold that licensing directly under our CSP agreement, so adding a seat and changing something in your tenant happen in one conversation rather than across two vendors and a renewal date. The security tools, backup, training, and advisory time are in the same number.
The usual alternative: a quote that looks competitive on signing day and grows with each add-on, often with licensing left out of the comparison entirely.5. Your team asks for help however they prefer
Requests come in through Microsoft Teams, text message, WhatsApp, the client portal, live chat, or the phone. They all land in the same queue with the same identity check applied. If something is down for everyone, we send one message to all affected users instead of answering the same question forty times.
The usual alternative: a phone number, an email address, and tickets your staff cannot see the status of.6. You find out what is actually installed
Our software audit lists every application running in your environment, rates the risk of each one, and identifies which country it was built in. Almost every business we run it for finds something they did not know was there. A utility somebody downloaded years ago. A remote access tool a former vendor left behind. A browser extension that can read everything your staff type.
Where your software comes from has become a question your own customers ask during procurement. Most companies cannot answer it.
The usual alternative: a network scan that lists open ports and gets described as an assessment.All-Inclusive
What sits inside the monthly rate.
These are the items most often missing from a competing quote, or listed as add-ons that show up on an invoice a few months in. Worth checking line by line against anything else you are considering.
Credentials
Things you can look up.
Licenses and accreditations can be checked by anyone. We would rather give you those than a list of adjectives about ourselves.
California contractor license 1026027
Low-voltage systems. This is what lets us design and install cameras, access control, and cabling ourselves rather than subcontracting it. Most managed IT providers in this market do not hold one.
FAA-licensed drone operators
We use these for site surveys on larger properties. Roofline, yard, and perimeter get mapped before camera coverage is designed, rather than estimated from a floor plan.
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider
We hold your licensing directly rather than through a reseller. That is why it can sit inside your rate, and why a licensing question and a tenant question get answered in the same conversation.
MSPAlliance accredited
Accreditation from the industry association for managed services, cloud, and cybersecurity providers. It is an outside standard for how the practice itself is run, not a product badge.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni
Behzad completed the program. It matters mostly because the business side of this operation was built on purpose rather than improvised as we went.
5.0 rating on Google
Every review, five stars. Not an average that smooths over a few bad ones. Founded in Irvine in 2017 and still on Rockfield Boulevard.
When Something Breaks
How we decide what
gets worked on first.
Severity is about impact, not volume
Every request gets a severity based on how much of your business has stopped and how many people it affects. A system down across the whole office with no way to work around it outranks a single user with an inconvenience, regardless of who submitted which. Your service agreement sets out the response target for each level in writing.
You get a person, not a queue position
Requests are handled by engineers assigned to your account, so whoever picks it up already knows your environment. If something needs escalating, you are told who has it and what happens next rather than watching a status field change.
We commit to response, not to a repair clock
We will tell you how quickly someone engages with your issue. We will not promise how long a fix takes, because that depends on what failed and who else has to be involved: a software vendor, an internet carrier, a part that has to ship. Anyone quoting a guaranteed repair time is quoting you an average.
Security does not wait for a ticket
All of the above describes the service desk. Threats work on a different clock. When our operations center confirms an active threat, the machine comes off the network right then, whether or not anyone has noticed or opened a request.
How We Work
A clear path from first call
to fully managed.
Three phases, each with a defined outcome before we move to the next.
Being Straight With You
Who we are
not right for.
We would rather say this now than three months into an engagement that was never going to work.
Four situations where you should choose someone else
If price is the only variable. Our rate includes licensing, the security stack, backup, and advisory. Compared line-by-line against a bare-bones quote it will look higher, and if the comparison stops at the monthly number we will lose it, and correctly so, because you are buying something different.
If you want documentation without the controls. Some organizations want a compliance binder to satisfy a client and nothing underneath it. We will tell you it will not withstand an audit or an incident, which is not what that buyer wants to hear.
If you need a guaranteed resolution time. We commit to response targets by severity and we publish them. We will not commit to how long a fix takes, because that depends on what failed and who else has to be involved, a software vendor, an internet carrier, a hardware lead time. A provider who guarantees resolution is quoting you an average.
If you want to keep break-fix. Calling someone only when something is broken is a legitimate way to run a business, and it is cheaper. It is just not what we do, and we are not good value for a company that wants it.
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