Cybersecurity Services for iCorps Technologies

iCorps has served the Boston, New York and Philadelphia corridor since 1994, which is long enough to have carried clients through three separate eras of what counted as IT security at the time. The client mix is the interesting part. Life sciences, legal, financial services, real estate development and manufacturing, concentrated in about the densest regulatory geography in the country.

That mix creates a problem which has nothing to do with how big iCorps is. A thirty person biotech in Cambridge carries the same data integrity and validation obligations as a large pharmaceutical company, and the law firm advising it carries confidentiality obligations that do not scale down either. The regulatory weight sits with the client, but the questions arrive at the provider. Serving that mix means having credible answers on validated systems, privileged information handling and examination readiness, from people who have done each of them before.

Hiring for that is where it stops working. A life sciences validation specialist, a legal data governance specialist and a financial services examination specialist are three different people, and none of them is kept busy by one regional client base. CWS staffs those engagements as they come up, under the iCorps name, so a client's compliance question turns into a scoped piece of work rather than a referral to somebody else. Corova handles the scoping and the quote, so a request that lands on Tuesday has a number against it before the week is out.