Cybersecurity Services for Forthright Technology Partners

Until 2016 this business traded as Synergy Development, a name it had carried since 1992. The rebrand to Forthright came with a repositioning toward cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, but the technical center of gravity stayed put. Citrix, Fortinet and Microsoft head the partner list, with IGEL, Liquidware, ControlUp and Nutanix filling out a digital workspace practice the company says has reached more than 26 countries and 1,488 cities. All of it runs from one office in Weston, Florida, and the firm is certified as a minority business enterprise

Reach like that is flattering and awkward in equal measure. Virtual desktop work on Citrix and IGEL is specialist labor, and the engineers who can size an estate properly are the same ones wanted on a Fortinet migration, and the same ones the Forthright Cyber and Forthright Advisory brands imply when a client asks for a compliance assessment. Minority certification compounds the pressure in a useful way, because it opens procurement doors at large enterprises and public agencies carrying supplier diversity targets. Those opportunities tend to be large and slow moving, which is exactly the sort that punishes a firm for saying yes before checking who will actually be free

CWS puts engineers behind that name. They work as Forthright, to one delivery standard, on engagements anywhere in the United States and Canada, with French speaking staff where Quebec or Canadian federal work requires it. Corova carries the scoping, the quote and the project tracking, so the partner and the delivery team read from the same record. Nothing the client sees carries a CWS logo