Cybersecurity Services for Aldridge

Aldridge lists private equity among the industries it serves, which is unusual for a managed IT provider and revealing, because Aldridge grows the way its sponsor clients do. Dave Aldridge started the firm in Houston in 1984. Patrick Wiley runs it now, and in 2021 it closed on Tarrant Technology in Fort Worth and on ENTRUST Technology Consulting Services, adding to offices in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and Seattle

Serving sponsors means inheriting their calendar. Diligence runs in weeks and a carve out has a close date nobody moves, so the security work lands in bursts and often in a city where Aldridge has nobody. Five Texas offices and one outside Seattle cover Texas thoroughly and the rest of the country barely, which is fine for a Houston client and useless for a portfolio company two states over. Turning the work down damages the relationship that produced it, and handing it to whoever happens to be local puts the SOC 2 and MSP Verify standards Aldridge holds in the hands of a firm that never agreed to them. Construction sites and long term care facilities sharpen the point, because those buildings need a person inside them and no amount of remote tooling changes that

CWS covers the ground Aldridge does not. Engagements are staffed under the Aldridge name and delivered to one standard across the United States and Canada, with French speaking engineers for Quebec and Canadian federal work. Corova is where the scope is built, the quote is issued and the project is tracked, so a job in a state you have never worked in reads like a job in Houston