Cybersecurity Services for Sterling
Sterling is a woman owned small business and IT solutions integrator serving US federal, state, local and education customers from North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sterling Canada and Sterling UK subsidiaries and CMMC Level 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
CWS is not affiliated with Sterling. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
Sterling at a glance
- Founded
- 1996
- Operates in
- North Sioux City, South Dakota (headquarters, 303 Centennial Drive), Washington, DC (executive business center), Sterling, Virginia (East Coast facility), Sacramento, California (West Coast CID center), Vancouver, British Columbia (Sterling Canada, 925 West Georgia Street), Ottawa, Ontario (Sterling Canada), United Kingdom (Sterling UK)
- Verticals
- federal government, defense, state and local government, k-12 education, higher education, commercial, canadian national security agencies and industry
- Attestations
- CMMC Level 2, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (held by the Canadian entity as well as the US entity), Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard, O-TTPS 1.1.1 per ISO/IEC 20243:2018, Woman Owned Small Business, SBA certified, ITAR compliant
- Recognition
- 2026 Dell Technologies Federal Partner of the Year, Member of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI)
Compiled from public sources: https://sterling.com/about/, https://sterling.com/, https://sterling.com/locations/, https://sterling.com/canada/, https://www.highergov.com/awardee/sterling-computers-corporation-10000351/.
The Challenge for Mid-Market Resellers
Sterling Computers registered in North Sioux City, South Dakota in April 1996, and it now runs a Canadian arm out of Vancouver with people in Ottawa and a membership in the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries. The American business sells through GSA, SEWP V, ITES-4H, CIO-CS and NASPO, holds CMMC Level 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and was named Dell Technologies Federal Partner of the Year for 2026. Two federal governments, one brand
That is a harder position than it looks from the outside. A buyer in Ottawa is not evaluating against CMMC Level 2. They are buying against Canadian security requirements and, on most federal files, an obligation to work in both official languages. The certification story Sterling tells in Washington does not port, and neither do the people, because clearances are national and residency conditions are real. Margin in this business comes from volume, and volume businesses do not comfortably carry resident engineering benches in two countries waiting on services demand that arrives in bursts. Yet the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate sitting on the Canadian entity sets an expectation with every customer who reads it. Whoever performs the work has to meet that expectation, in Vancouver and in Sacramento alike
CWS staffs those engagements and works under the Sterling name. One delivery standard applies whether the engineer is on a Sacramento build or inside an Ottawa department, coverage runs across the United States and Canada, and French language delivery is available for Quebec and Canadian federal files where the contract requires it. Scoping, quoting and project tracking sit in Corova, so Sterling's account team sees the same project record the customer does
Relevant CWS Services for Sterling
Based on Sterling's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.
Why This Matters for Sterling
The Canadian entity carries the same ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate as the American one, which means the same delivery quality has to show up on both sides of the border. Funding two permanent benches to prove that is expensive when services demand is uneven. Renting one bench that already works to a single standard in both countries costs less and never dilutes the Sterling name
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