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Cybersecurity Services for Xantrion

Xantrion is a California managed IT and security provider founded in 2000, headquartered in Lafayette in the East Bay, serving mid sized professional services, financial services and life sciences firms.

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TypeRegional VAR
HQLafayette, California
Focusmanaged it services, managed security services, cloud security, compliance support, endpoint detection and response, virtual ciso
SizeRegional
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CWS is not affiliated with Xantrion. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.

Company Profile

Xantrion at a glance

Founded
2000
People
about 100
Operates in
Lafayette, California, San Francisco, California, San Jose, California, Pasadena, California, Sacramento, California, San Diego, California
Verticals
financial services, life sciences, professional services, manufacturing, healthcare, legal, accounting, government
Vendor tiers
Microsoft 365 Partner, Charles Schwab Advisor Services partner
Attestations
SOC 2
Recognition
Channel Futures MSP 501, nine consecutive years, MSSP Alert Top 250 managed security service providers, every year since 2019, San Francisco Business Times Bay Area Best Places to Work, every year since 2020
Ownership
Founder led and independent. The company has said it plans to transition to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan structure over the next five years

Compiled from public sources: https://www.xantrion.com/company/, https://www.xantrion.com/.

Industry Context

The Challenge for Regional Resellers

Xantrion has said it intends to become employee owned, moving to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan over the next five years. Anne Bisagno and Tom Snyder founded the firm in 2000 and it has reached about 100 people, all of them in California, with the head office in Lafayette and further offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Pasadena, Sacramento and San Diego. A partnership with Charles Schwab Advisor Services tells you plainly who the clients are

Employee ownership rewires the hiring decision. An ESOP has to fund share buybacks while every new salary dilutes the pool, so a firm of about 100 must be far more careful about permanent senior headcount than a founder owned one would be. Security work does not arrive evenly. A life sciences client failing a SOC 2 evidence request, or an advisory firm preparing for an audit, needs a specialist for six weeks and not forever. Staying inside California keeps that manageable, right up to the point a client opens an office beyond the state and expects the same standard from the same firm. Nine consecutive years on the Channel Futures MSP 501 and a place on the MSSP Alert Top 250 every year since 2019 mean the security expectation is already set. Meeting that expectation inside California is one thing. Doing it in a state where nobody on the payroll lives is another

CWS is how you say yes without hiring. We field engineers under the Xantrion name, to one standard, anywhere in the United States or Canada, including French language delivery for Quebec and Canadian federal requirements. Corova carries scoping, quoting and project tracking, which keeps the engagement visible to Xantrion at every step and keeps the cost variable rather than fixed

How CWS Helps

Relevant CWS Services for Xantrion

Based on Xantrion's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.

Managed ServicesCloud Security
Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for Xantrion

An ESOP makes every permanent hire a long term commitment by design, which is the right instinct and a poor fit for demand that spikes. Variable capacity delivered under your own brand protects the utilization the plan depends on. It also lets you follow a good client out of state without opening an office there

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