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Cybersecurity Services for ConRes

ConRes (Continental Resources) is a family owned, WBENC certified national IT solutions provider recognized on CRN's Solution Provider 500 list.

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TypeEnterprise VAR
HQBedford, Massachusetts
Focusdata center, cloud, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, collaboration, data storage, networking
SizeEnterprise
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CWS is not affiliated with ConRes. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.

Company Profile

ConRes at a glance

Founded
1962
Operates in
United States, Canada, Europe, Asia
Verticals
financial services, biotech and life sciences, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education, technology and service providers
Attestations
Women's Business Enterprise, certified by WBENC
Recognition
CRN Solution Provider 500, CRN Tech Elite 250, CRN MSP 500, CRN Power 100 Women of the Channel, USA Today Top Workplaces (2026)
Ownership
Family owned and privately held, with no private equity or public shareholders, and the company describes itself as debt free. Its ConRes Test Equipment division was sold to TestEquity, an operating company of Distribution Solutions Group, in November 2024

Compiled from public sources: conres.com about page, conrestestequipment.com company history, Distribution Solutions Group announcement that TestEquity signed an agreement to acquire ConRes Test Equipment (October 3, 2024), ConRes Cisco partner profile (conres.com), Toggle Magazine profile of ConRes IT Solutions (February 11, 2021).

Industry Context

The Challenge for Enterprise Resellers

ConRes sold the business it was founded on. Jim McCann Sr. started Continental Resources in 1962 renting and leasing test and measurement equipment to manufacturers who did not want the capital expense, and in November 2024 that division went to TestEquity, an operating company of Distribution Solutions Group. Both businesses had run under one roof for more than sixty years. What is left in Bedford, Massachusetts is the IT solutions arm, still family owned and certified as a Women's Business Enterprise

Rental was a balance sheet business with predictable returns and a depreciation schedule. IT solutions is an engineering business, and engineering scales through people. WBENC certification puts ConRes on the supplier diversity programs of large enterprises and government agencies, which is excellent for pipeline and unforgiving on delivery, since a diversity supplier is measured against the same statement of work as everyone else. Having no outside shareholders means no acquisition budget for buying a security practice the way private equity backed competitors do. Growing an engineering bench out of cash flow is the honest route and the slow one, and the security work now arriving through those enterprise programs is not waiting

That is the trade CWS removes. Our engineers deliver under the ConRes name, to a single standard, across the United States and Canada, in English and in French where Quebec or Canadian federal customers require it. Corova handles scoping, quoting and project tracking, so capacity arrives as a line on a statement of work rather than a hiring requisition. There is no ramp to fund and no severance risk to carry. The customer sees ConRes from first call to close

How CWS Helps

Relevant CWS Services for ConRes

Based on ConRes's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.

Cloud SecuritySecurity Operations
Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for ConRes

Six decades of independence is an asset and a constraint at once. ConRes answers to customers rather than a fund's exit clock, and the security bench grows only as fast as retained earnings allow. Renting capability instead of building it keeps the first part and deletes the second

For ConRes Employees

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