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Managed IT and Cybersecurity Services · Prescott, Arizona

Most businesses outgrow their IT about two years before they notice.

The computers still turn on. Email still works. Nothing looks broken. That is exactly what makes it dangerous. The gaps that put a company out of business do not announce themselves first.

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No email required. No sales call. You get your score on screen.

Google rating
5.0 out of 5 24 reviews, every one five stars
Security monitoring
24/7/365 Watching while nobody is at their desk
Doing this since
2017 Prescott born, and still here
Where we work
The Quad Cities On-site locally, remote across Arizona

What brings you here?

Almost nobody goes looking for a cybersecurity company.

Something happens first. Here is what actually brings people to us, in their words, not ours. If one of these sounds like a conversation you have had recently, start there.

Is this you?

Your IT person

  1. “Our IT guy just left.”

    He moved, retired, or took a real job. Nobody knows the admin passwords, the licenses renew to his email, and you are discovering how much lived only in his head. That is us

  2. “Our IT guy has another full-time job.”

    He is good, and he answers eventually. But he is one person with a day job, and you have quietly become bigger than a nights-and-weekends operation. That is us

  3. “Our own IT person is causing problems.”

    Tickets sit. Changes get made without telling anyone. You cannot tell whether things are under control, and you have no way to check. That is us

An empty desk: the chair pushed back, an open cardboard box and a lanyard badge left behind, and a switched-off monitor with password notes stuck to its frame, marked with an open ring as unchecked.
The open ring marks what nobody has checked since he left.

Questions you cannot answer yet

  1. “We failed a cyber insurance questionnaire.”

    They asked about MFA, backups, and endpoint protection, and you were not certain of the answers. Now renewal is at risk or the premium jumped. That is us

  2. “Our board started asking questions.”

    Someone on the board or in the family read an article, or a peer got hit. Now you need a real answer about where you stand, not a reassuring one. That is us

  3. “A company like ours got hit.”

    Same size, same industry, same town. You realized you have no idea whether it could happen to you, and that not knowing is its own answer. That is us

Someone at their desk working through an insurance questionnaire on a clipboard, some rows answered and some still blank, with a pen and a calculator beside it.
Some rows answered, some still blank.

No problem yet, just being proactive?

  1. “We have been doing our own IT and want it done properly.”

    Nothing has gone wrong. Someone here has always just handled it, and it has worked. But you are bigger now, and you would rather bring in professionals before something forces the decision. That is us

What we find , 2 of 6

Six things we find in almost every business we assess.

Not the exotic threats that make the news. These are the ordinary, boring gaps that are present in nearly every organization we examine, including well-run ones with someone competent handling IT.

A monitor among cabling and equipment racks in a server room
What it looks like
What we find

  1. Staff list: up to date.

    Former employees still have accounts

    People who left months or years ago still have working logins. Nobody was responsible for switching them off, so nobody did.

  2. Backup job: completed.

    Backups are running, but not working

    The backup job reports success. It has never been restored from, and often it is not actually capturing what matters. Everyone assumes this is handled.

  3. Computers: working.

    Everyone is an administrator

    Staff have full admin rights on their own machines. One wrong click installs whatever it wants, with permission.

  4. MFA: enabled.

    Multi-factor authentication is partly on

    It is enabled for some people, on some systems, some of the time. Attackers only need the gap.

  5. Files: saved where people can find them.

    Staff use personal accounts for company work

    Personal email, personal cloud storage, personal file shares holding real business data. When they leave, the data leaves with them.

  6. Systems: working.

    Configuration has drifted

    Machines not joined to the domain, automations never finished, one-off fixes nobody documented. It works right up until it does not.

A woman writing notes in a notebook beside her laptop.

How this works , 3 of 6

Four steps, and you learn something useful at every one.

By the end you will know exactly where your business stands, what it would cost to fix, and what happens if you do nothing. That picture is yours to keep and act on however you choose.

It works in this order for your benefit. A price quoted before anyone has looked is a guess dressed up as a number, and you would have no way to tell whether it was fair or whether it covered what you actually need. Looking first means the figure you get is built from your business rather than your headcount.

  1. One person at their desk on a phone call, with a notepad and pen in front of them and a desk clock marking off fifteen minutes.

    15-minute consult

    Free

    Tell us what prompted you to look. You get a straight read on how serious it is and what we would do first, whether or not you go further.

    Who you will talk to

    Niles Benghauser Founder of Sentry CTO

  2. An office during an inspection: the network cabinet stands open with a cable run to a laptop showing scan progress, a checklist beside it has items done and items still open, and a wall calendar has thirty days filled in.

    Sentry Inspect

    30 days

    Thirty days examining your people, processes, and technology across nine areas, scans, interviews with your staff, and a review of how you actually operate.

  3. Four people at a meeting table, each with a copy of a report, facing a screen with a simple bar chart; the fifth chair, at the end of the table, is gold and empty.

    The briefing

    ~60 min

    Your leadership sees the findings together, in business terms, with the cost of each risk laid out. Most clients tell us it is the first time everyone in the room shared the same picture.

  4. A small office on a gold floor, covered: two people at work at their desks, a filled gold dot over each laptop and the network cabinet, and a wall screen listing three support tickets, two closed and one open.

    Sentry Protect

    Optional

    If it makes sense for both of us, you get a technology partner handling security, support, and planning. If it does not, you still hold a roadmap you can give to anyone.

Proof , 4 of 6

Five years

Two of our clients renewed at five years.

In an industry where businesses change IT providers every couple of years, that is the number we would ask about if we were you. Some of them will have been with us more than a decade by the time their current agreements end.

“Niles and team are the best in Northern Arizona! We use [Sentry CTO] for our law office, and Niles is always prompt, responsive, professional, and knowledgeable.”
Annie Holdsworth, Holdsworth Law Firm
“I really, really appreciate all of the help that Sentry CTO has provided for all of my tech-related issues. I have never submitted a ticket that took longer than 15 minutes for a response, and I always receive top-notch, professional, and friendly service from everyone there. Tech issues are never fun, but Sentry CTO makes them significantly less stressful, since you know any that come your way will be solved quickly and painlessly.”
Ricardo
“Sentry CTO is an excellent company for Cyber Security. Niles is by far the most knowledgeable expert in this industry. I have used their services and they have helped me to discover weaknesses in my current CRM. They have also done a business assessment which revealed that passwords and accesses were not where they should have been. I highly recommend this company.”
Jeff Brandlin

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A workbench on a gold floor: a laptop running a simple app form is wired to a small laser engraver with a finished engraved plaque on its bed.

Case study

The app we rebuilt: customer names in, engraved products out.

See the client whose business-critical app we rebuilt in six weeks →

Who we work with , 5 of 6

Businesses of five to 250 people that cannot afford to lose a week.

Every industry below carries obligations the others do not. These four come up most often, but the list is not a door policy.

Based in Prescott, we provide managed IT services and cybersecurity services to businesses like these. On-site work covers Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt, and the rest of Arizona is supported remotely.

  1. Law Firms

    Confidentiality is not a preference. It is a rule you can be disbarred over.

  2. Nonprofits

    Donor data, grant obligations, and a board that needs a straight answer.

  3. Construction

    Field crews, changing headcount, and wire fraud on draw payments.

  4. Financial Services

    FTC Safeguards, examiners, and members who cannot afford a bad week.

Not on this list? That is fine. Most of our clients were not either. Here is who we are genuinely not right for.

The next step

Start with the three-minute version.

Nine areas, plain questions, no jargon. You get a score and a breakdown on screen, no email address, no follow-up unless you ask for one. Most people find at least one thing they did not know about.

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