// CO-MANAGED
Co-Managed IT: Your Team, Plus Ours
Keep your IT people. Give them a 24/7 operation behind them.
Overview
Co-managed IT is the model for organizations that have internal IT worth keeping — a director who knows every system, a technician users trust — but need more hours, more depth, or more compliance machinery than a small team can carry. You keep institutional knowledge and local presence; CLOUD2E adds 24/7 monitoring, the security stack, patch and backup discipline, escalation engineering, and the documentation layer that assessors and insurers now demand.
The make-or-break of co-management is the division of duties, so we put it in writing: who owns the helpdesk tiers, who approves changes, who holds which admin roles, who produces which records. Clear seams, one shared view of the environment, no silent gaps — the same clarity our Shared Responsibility Matrix brings to compliance programs.
Co-Managed IT Services
CO-MANAGED
Delivered by an MSP that holds its own CMMC Level 2 certification.
// What's included
Inside the service
24/7 monitoring & alert response
Your team goes home; the environment stays watched. Overnight triage means mornings start with a summary, not a surprise.
Security stack operations
EDR, email security, identity protection, and SIEM — licensed, tuned, and operated, with your team reading the same consoles.
Patch, backup & lifecycle discipline
The unglamorous machinery that slips when a small team firefights — executed on cadence and reported.
Tier-2/3 escalation bench
Senior engineers on call for the problems that eat an internal team’s week — identity, networking, cloud architecture.
Compliance & evidence layer
For defense suppliers: control-mapped records, SRM, and assessment support that bolt onto your team’s daily work.
Documented division of duties
A written operating agreement for who does what — reviewed with leadership, kept current as staff and systems change.
// How we deliver
The working rhythm
01
Listen first
We interview your IT staff before leadership hears a proposal — co-management fails when the internal team learns about it last.
02
Define the seams
Duties, admin roles, escalation paths, and record ownership agreed and documented.
03
Integrate
Tooling connected, visibility shared both directions, runbooks merged over the first month.
04
Operate as one team
Weekly operational sync, monthly reporting, quarterly review of the split as your needs evolve.
Who it's for
Organizations of roughly 30 to 400 seats with one-to-five-person IT teams: defense suppliers whose internal staff need a compliance-grade operation behind them, and commercial firms whose IT leaders want depth without headcount.
Why CLOUD2E
Co-management lives or dies on trust between teams, so we engineer for it: transparent tooling your staff can see, a written division of duties, and no land-grab incentives — your people stay in charge of what they are best at. And the operation backing them holds CMMC Level 2, so the discipline is assessed, not asserted.
// FAQ
Questions we hear about co-managed it services
Is co-managed IT a stepping stone to replacing our team?
Not here. The division of duties is contractual, your staff keep their admin standing per the agreement, and our incentive is a stable long-term seat count — not your director’s chair. Ask our co-managed references how the seam has held.
Who does our staff call when something breaks at 2 a.m.?
Nobody — our monitoring already caught it, and the on-call engineer is working it. Your team gets the summary and the root cause in the morning, and users get their helpdesk tiers exactly as the agreement assigns them.
Can co-management cover CMMC obligations?
Yes — it is a common pattern for defense suppliers: your team runs day-to-day IT, we operate the security and evidence machinery, and the Shared Responsibility Matrix documents the split per requirement, which is precisely what an assessor wants to see.
What does the division-of-duties agreement actually cover?
Helpdesk tiering, admin role assignments, change approval, maintenance windows, record ownership, escalation paths, and review cadence. It is a working document — revised quarterly, not framed on a wall.
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