Cybersecurity Services for Walker and Associates

Walker and Associates has been shipping network equipment out of Welcome, North Carolina since 1970, which makes it older than most of the broadband providers on its customer list. In July 2021 the company sold to USTC Corp, a Carlyle backed distributor founded in 2017 and based in Edison, New Jersey. At the point of sale Walker was supplying more than 1,000 broadband providers from a catalogue of over 400 suppliers, along with utilities and government agencies

Consider who those customers are. A rural broadband operator and a municipal utility are both under pressure to show how their networks are segmented and who holds privileged access, and both buy access, transport and routing equipment from Walker, often configured and staged before it reaches the field. Government agencies apply the same pressure with more paperwork attached. Walker's engineering support is product engineering. Equipment arrives loaded and labelled, correctly and on schedule, and there the scope ends. Security design begins one step past that loading dock, on a network Walker specified, and at the moment it is bought from somebody else. What is missing is not knowledge so much as billable hours, because no distributor keeps consultants sitting idle

CWS staffs that step for Walker instead of competing for it. Engineers deliver under the Walker name and to a single standard of work, at sites anywhere in the United States and Canada, and in French where a Quebec or Canadian federal customer requires it. Scoping, quoting and project tracking run in Corova, so a services line can be put in front of a customer as quickly as a hardware line, with the margin visible before anyone commits