Cybersecurity Services for Marco Technologies
Technology services provider delivering managed cybersecurity, networking, cloud, and unified communications solutions to mid-market businesses across the upper Midwest.
CWS is not affiliated with Marco Technologies. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
Marco Technologies at a glance
- Founded
- 1973
- People
- more than 1,200
- Operates in
- St. Cloud, Minnesota (headquarters), 48 locations across 16 states, Louisville, Owensboro and Bowling Green, Kentucky, Evansville, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Maryland, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota
- Vendor tiers
- All six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations (January 2026), Arctic Wolf partner for managed detection and response (2025)
- Attestations
- SOC 2 Type 2 attestation for Managed IT and Managed Print Services, examined by RSM US LLP (2021)
- Recognition
- Channel Futures MSP 501 (2024), ENX Elite Dealer (2024), Star Tribune Top 200 Workplaces (2022)
- Acquisitions
- Solbrekk (2015), Phillips Office Solutions (2018), INNOVEX (2023), Lang Company (2024)
- Ownership
- Employee owned through a stock ownership plan until Norwest Equity Partners acquired the company on October 30, 2015. Marco has remained a Norwest Equity Partners portfolio company since, and reported 31 strategic acquisitions as of January 2026
Compiled from public sources: https://www.marconet.com/about, https://nep.com/news/acquisition-of-local-technology-services-provider-marco-and-plans-for-more-robust-growth/, https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2015/10/30/marco-sold-twin-cities-equity-firm/74858266/, https://www.marconet.com/press-releases/marco-expands-with-purchase-of-lang-company, https://www.marconet.com/press-releases/marco-collaborates-with-arctic-wolf-to-strengthen-cybersecurity-capabilities, https://www.marconet.com/press-releases/marco-achieves-soc2-type2-report, https://www.marconet.com/press-releases/marco-technologies-achieves-all-six-microsoft-solutions-partner-designations.
The Challenge for Mid-Market Resellers
Marco opened in 1973 as a typewriter and office supply shop in St. Cloud, started by Gary Marsden and Dave Marquardt, whose surnames gave the company its name. Employees owned it through a stock ownership plan until Norwest Equity Partners bought the business on October 30, 2015. Acquisitions have pushed it outward ever since, from Solbrekk in 2015 to Phillips Office Solutions in 2018, INNOVEX in 2023 and Lang Company in Louisville in 2024, reaching 48 locations across 16 states and more than 1,200 employees
Print and copier revenue still funds the company and still shapes what buyers assume Marco is for. The security build has been deliberate: a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation in 2021, fractional CIO and CISO services in 2024, an Arctic Wolf partnership in February 2025 that put Marco in the managed security service provider category, and all six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations in January 2026. Every acquired office arrives with its own service habits and a client list that has never bought security from anyone. Selling that list a 24/7 detection commitment means the practice has to reach all 48 locations at the same standard, and reach them soon
CWS delivers under the partner's brand. One standard applies whether the client is in Louisville or St. Cloud, across the United States and Canada, with French speaking delivery where Quebec or Canadian federal work requires it. Corova handles scoping, quoting and project tracking, which counts for most in a practice serving offices that joined the company in different decades. A branch acquired last quarter can sell the same security service, at the same quality, that St. Cloud has been selling for years
Relevant CWS Services for Marco Technologies
Based on Marco Technologies's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.
Why This Matters for Marco Technologies
Buying companies adds customers faster than it adds engineers, and the gap between those two curves is where service quality quietly slips. Contracted delivery under the Marco name closes it without another integration to absorb. Price the next region with us before you price the next deal
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