Blue Shift Technology is an IT and security firm for small and mid-sized businesses. We do the engineering most companies split across two vendors — the servers, software and administration that keep you running, and the security program that keeps you standing.
Founded to close the gap between the people who run systems and the people who secure them.
Most companies hire a generalist IT shop and a separate security vendor — then spend their time translating between them.
We do both. The engineers who patch your servers are the engineers who harden them. The people who build your identity system are the people who audit it. That removes the handoff where most incidents actually begin.
We are deliberately narrow about what we claim. Every capability on this site maps to a published standard — NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, the FATF Recommendations — so you can check our work rather than take our word for it.
The systems your business runs on. Built, maintained, and kept online.
All IT servicesProvisioning, hardening and day-to-day operation of Linux and Windows Server environments — physical, virtual or containerized. Patch cycles, monitoring, and backups that are actually restore-tested, not just scheduled.
Read moreApplications, REST APIs and system integrations where off-the-shelf software runs out. Plus the automation that removes the manual work nobody should still be doing by hand.
Read moreHelpdesk, endpoint management, onboarding and offboarding, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace administration, networks and firewalls. The unglamorous work that decides whether a company runs smoothly.
Read moreCloud defined as code, not clicked together in a console — reproducible, reviewable, and cost-controlled. Migrations, high availability, and disaster recovery you have actually tested.
Read moreFast, hardened hosting with the upkeep behind it: TLS, DNS, dependency updates, WAF, monitoring, and performance work measured against Core Web Vitals.
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A complete program — prevention, detection, response — plus four specialist practices most providers don't carry.
All security servicesGood security is not a stack of products. It is a small number of disciplines, done continuously: know what you have, reduce what is exposed, watch what is left, and rehearse what you will do when something gets through. That is how the program below is organized.
Asset inventory, configuration review and gap analysis — ending in a remediation plan ranked by real risk, not a 300-page finding dump.
Read moreAuthorized, scoped attacks on your web apps, networks and cloud — manual work, written findings, retest included.
Read moreScanning is the easy part. Prioritizing by exploitability, driving fixes and verifying them — that is the program.
Read moreSIEM and EDR tuned to your environment, detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and an escalation path agreed in writing.
Read moreContainment, forensics and recovery aligned to NIST SP 800-61r3 — and the plan and rehearsals that should exist before it is needed.
Read moreBackups an attacker cannot delete, restores you have rehearsed, and an RPO/RTO your leadership has actually agreed to.
Read moreThe two parts of security that are not technical: security awareness training with phishing simulations used as measurement, and GRC — policies, risk register and audit-readiness a small company can actually operate.
Four disciplines most IT firms don't carry: OPSEC, IAM, KYC & AML tooling and OSINT — each grounded in a published standard.
We would rather be exactly right for a few hundred companies than vaguely right for everyone.
The same five stages, whether the engagement is one server or the whole environment.
Organized before the first invoice: you see the plan, the priorities and the boundaries in writing before we change anything.
We review the environment, the business constraints and the existing risks — and record what we find.
You receive a documented view of what matters, what depends on what, and what we would do first.
Controlled, documented changes with rollback planning. No surprise work, no undocumented fixes.
Credentials, documentation and runbooks are yours either way. We hand the keys over, or keep operating under a retainer.
Managed environments are reviewed on a schedule for security, resilience, cost and technical debt.
Frameworks our work is built and measured against.
We do not hold every certification listed here, and we will not claim otherwise. These are the frameworks we build to and help our clients satisfy.
Describe your environment and the problem you are actually trying to solve. You will get a technical answer from an engineer, not a discovery call.
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