Cybersecurity Services for Ascend Technologies

Ascend was assembled rather than founded. West Monroe's managed services business combined with Gratia in 2019 to create it, Infogressive followed in 2020 carrying a managed security practice that had run since 2006, then Switchfast Technologies and the managed IT division of Stratosphere Networks arrived in 2021, and Edafio Technology Partners merged in during 2024 after running on its own since 1999. Seven offices now carry the name: Chicago, Auburn Hills, Lincoln, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Bentonville and North Little Rock

A company built this way holds more than one answer to the same question. Infogressive's security practice, Edafio's consulting work and the old Stratosphere managed IT team each learned a different way to scope an assessment and write it up. Ascend sells against SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, CMMC and PCI DSS, and those are calendar bound engagements where an auditor's date does not move because the one engineer who knows CMMC is finishing something in Bentonville. Regulated buyers in healthcare, financial services, insurance and government compare deliverables between their own sites. Six hundred organisations spread across seven offices in five states will surface an inconsistency long before any internal review catches it

CWS takes that problem off the org chart. Our engineers deliver under the Ascend brand and stay invisible to the client, held to a single standard whichever office booked the job, across the United States and Canada, with English and French available where Quebec or Canadian federal engagements demand both. Scoping, quoting and project tracking run through Corova, which means Chicago and North Little Rock produce the same document from the same inputs