Cybersecurity Services for Custom Computer Specialists

Custom Computer Specialists opened in Hauppauge on Long Island in 1979 and is still headquartered there, now at about 500 people with regional offices in Providence, Wilmington, Cleveland, Raleigh-Durham and Yorktown. It earned SOC 2 Type II attestation in 2024, which puts its own controls under external examination rather than self assertion. The customer list runs from K-12 districts and universities through state and local government, healthcare, financial services, legal and defense. Few independents of that vintage carry so many regulated verticals at once

Each of those verticals audits differently. A hospital system wants HIPAA evidence, a defense supplier wants CMMC assessment readiness, a school district wants student data privacy answers, and a bank examiner wants something else again. Holding SOC 2 Type II means the firm has already accepted that its own house gets inspected, so customers reasonably expect the same rigor in what gets delivered to them. The strain is not competence, it is timing. Compliance deadlines cluster, assessment work arrives for many clients in the same quarter, and a 500 person firm cannot hire a surge team for one season and let it go in the next

CWS provides that surge without the payroll commitment. Consultants deploy under the Custom Computer Specialists name and work to a single delivery standard, across the United States and Canada, in English and in French where Quebec or Canadian federal engagements require it. Scoping, quoting and project tracking sit in Corova, which means an assessment can be priced the day a client asks rather than after the bench question is settled