IT Specialists

Managed IT / CybersecurityColoradoSince 1995

The human-trust layer that makes AI adoption safe for your business.

We build and manage the secure IT foundation your business needs before it can safely use AI tools, automate workflows, or handle sensitive data at scale.

14.8yr avg. client tenure
95.68%retention
300+businesses
13savg. response
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Our Promises

Three commitments we make to every client.

Promises we keep to keep our clients for over 14 years on average.

Promise 01

A Solid Foundation

Every endpoint, identity, firewall, and email system is configured to a documented standard. Local admin rights removed. Conditional access enforced. Your environment is hardened against the threats that actually compromise businesses today.

Written alignment baseline delivered within 90 days of onboarding.

Promise 02

Direct-to-Tech Support in Under 13 Seconds

When you call, a technician who already knows your environment picks up the phone. No ticket queue. No call center. No explaining your setup to a stranger every time.

13-second average live phone response. Same team, every call.

Promise 03

Continuous Improvement

Configurations drift. People change settings. New employees get the wrong access. We audit your environment continuously and review standards with your leadership quarterly so your security posture improves over time, not just on day one.

Continuous audits. Quarterly reviews. Your environment gets stronger every quarter.

Our Guarantee: We’ll fix your IT issues permanently and secure your systems so they’re ready for AI. If we can’t, we’ll give you the framework to do it yourself, free.

Client Success

Real Results From Real Businesses

See how we've helped businesses like yours achieve remarkable growth and success.

How We Helped Mike Bauer's Colorado Canine Orthopedics Thrive for Over Two Decades

From Mobile TPOLO's to Building, Growing, and Exiting the Largest Canine Surgery Center in the Country

The Challenge

Colorado Canine Orthopedics grew from a small mobile surgery practice to a sophisticated veterinary orthopedic hospital highly dependent on technology.

The Results

20+ year partnership dedicated to growth
Sophisticated practice operations running flawlessly
Technology integration across all practice areas
Business growth support beyond just IT
"IT Specialists has been an indispensable part of our success... they have gone far beyond managing our computers helping with business ideas, marketing, websites, phone issues, and more. As a longtime small business owner, I give them my absolute highest recommendation."
Mike Bauer
Founder
Colorado Canine Orthopedics
95.68%
Client Retention
300+
Businesses Served
30+
Years Experience
13 sec
Response Time
Frequently Asked

Straight answers to common questions

Before you call, here's what most prospects and procurement teams ask us first.

IT Specialists is headquartered at 6625 Delmonico Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919. We serve small and mid-sized businesses across the Colorado Front Range (Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Pueblo, Monument, Castle Rock) and across the broader Southwest including Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and California.
We sell standards, not tools. Most MSPs stack software — EDR, MFA, a firewall — and call it cybersecurity. We implement and continuously audit the configurations that make those tools actually protect you: removing local admin rights, enforcing conditional access, segmenting networks with Zero Trust, and staging patches instead of auto-applying them. Plus we have a 13-second average live phone response, 99.99% uptime commitment, and 14.8-year average client tenure.
Most of our clients invest $125–$225 per user per month for full managed IT and security, depending on size, compliance needs, and whether infrastructure (phones, cabling, cloud storage) is bundled in. We do not publish exact pricing because the right package for a 15-person law firm with HIPAA-adjacent data is not the same as a 120-person manufacturer with OT networks. We quote a flat monthly fee after a free IT & Security Assessment so there are no surprise invoices.
Break/fix means you only pay when something breaks — which incentivizes slow, expensive responses and leaves prevention off the table. Managed services is a flat monthly fee that covers monitoring, maintenance, security, help desk, and strategy. Our model eliminates the financial conflict of interest: we make more money when your environment runs smoothly, not when it fails.
Our live help desk phone response averages 13 seconds. You reach a U.S.-based engineer — not a ticket form, not an overseas tier-1 screener reading a script. For true emergencies (ransomware, outage, total loss of access), we have 24/7/365 emergency support at (719) 359-5995.
Yes. Microsoft 365 is where most of our clients live — including Entra ID (Azure AD), SharePoint, Teams, Intune, and Defender for Business / Defender for Endpoint. We also support Google Workspace, Microsoft Azure, and AWS environments, and we routinely migrate clients between platforms when the business case is right.
Yes — this is our co-managed model. If you have an internal IT manager or small IT team, we plug in as the cybersecurity and infrastructure specialists they don’t have time (or budget) to hire in-house: 24/7 SOC monitoring, identity hardening, compliance engineering, and escalation. Your team stays in control of user-facing IT; we become their force multiplier on the security and architecture side.
A standard onboarding takes 2–4 weeks from signed agreement to fully secured steady state. Week 1 is discovery and inventory. Week 2 is baseline hardening — MFA, conditional access, removing local admin, EDR deployment, backup verification. Week 3–4 is documentation, monitoring rollout, and training. Break/fix-style emergencies we can absorb same-day.
Yes. See our Cybersecurity page (/cybersecurity) — we offer Zero Trust architecture, SASE, managed EDR, SIEM / Managed XDR (24/7 SOC), identity security, GRC / compliance, and security awareness training. Businesses with existing IT teams typically engage us for co-managed security (/for-it-managers). Businesses without internal IT typically bundle security into our full managed IT service (/for-smbs).
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