Cybersecurity Services for Network Center

Network Center has been employee owned since 2015, and the sixty or so people who work there are the owners. The company started in Fargo in 1986, added offices in Grand Forks and St. Cloud, and now serves customers well beyond North Dakota and Minnesota under a managed services offering it calls FlexCare. A SOC 2 Type II examination sits behind the delivery process

An ESOP changes the arithmetic of hiring. Every engineer added to a sixty person payroll is a claim on a share pool the existing owners are counting on, so building bench ahead of demand is not a neutral decision here the way it is at a firm backed by outside capital. The demand itself is spread across a customer base far wider than the three offices suggest, and security projects do not arrive on a schedule anyone can smooth. That SOC 2 Type II attestation tells buyers the process is consistent no matter which office picks up the phone. Consistency is easy to promise and hard to hold when three customers escalate in the same week

CWS gives Network Center a way to meet that week without touching the share pool. We staff the engagement under the Network Center brand and deliver to a single standard across the United States and Canada, in English or in French where Quebec or Canadian federal requirements make it necessary. Corova carries scoping and quoting and gives the customer a project they can actually track, so a job in St. Cloud and a job three states away read the same way to the person paying for them