IT Support for Manufacturers Who Can't Afford a Line Stopping

Downtime is expensive. A ransomware attack or a failed server can halt production.

Old machines on the network. Equipment computers often run older software that can’t be easily updated.

Office and floor mixed together. When shop floor equipment shares a network with email, one problem can spread.

Protecting your designs. Drawings, specs and customer files are valuable to competitors and criminals.

Defense contract requirements. CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 can feel like a foreign language.

We keep the business running. Ongoing care for computers, servers and network, with a real person to call.

We help separate the floor from the office. Network setups that keep a problem in one place from spreading to everything.

We back it up and test it. So you can recover quickly when something goes wrong.

We help protect your designs. MFA, access controls and encryption.

We help with the technical side of CMMC. We help put controls in place and document how your systems are set up.

This section is a plain English overview to help you understand what the rules ask for. It isn’t legal advice. For questions about what applies to your company, talk with your attorney. Our role is to help you meet these requirements on the technology side and document the work. The responsibility for your program stays with your company, and we don’t promise or guarantee compliance.

CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 (for Department of Defense work)

If you make parts, do engineering or build for the Department of Defense, directly or as a subcontractor, CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) may apply to you. The program is set out at 32 CFR Part 170, and the companion DFARS (defense acquisition) rule took effect November 10, 2025. That started Phase 1, when DoD began including CMMC self-assessment requirements in applicable contracts as a condition of award. Phase 2 begins one year later, November 10, 2026, and adds third-party (C3PAO) certification for applicable contracts.

• Level 1 covers Federal Contract Information (FCI). It requires meeting 15 basic security requirements, a self-assessment every year, and an affirmation entered in SPRS (the Supplier Performance Risk System).
• Level 2 covers Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). It’s built on the security requirements in NIST SP 800-171 (the CMMC rule references Revision 2; NIST has since published Revision 3).

Which level applies depends on what kind of information your contract involves, so read your contract and ask your prime contractor or contracting officer.

Help for industrial systems

CISA publishes free guidance for industrial control systems (ICS), the computers that run machines and production equipment.

Free help from CISA

CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) publishes free cybersecurity services and tools, plus StopRansomware guidance on preventing and responding to ransomware. It’s a good, no-cost place to start.

New Jersey’s data breach law (N.J.S.A. 56:8-161 to 56:8-166)

New Jersey’s Identity Theft Prevention Act covers any business that does business in New Jersey, and any public entity, that keeps computerized records with personal information. If there’s a breach of New Jersey residents’ personal information, you have to tell the affected people in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay. Before you tell them, the law says you must report the breach to the New Jersey State Police. The State Police and the NJCCIC (New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell) provide an online form for that report. If you decide misuse of the information isn’t reasonably possible, the law says to document that decision in writing and keep it for five years.