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Managed IT and Cybersecurity · Northern Virginia

Security you can prove, to the auditor, the insurer, and the prime contractor.

Buckram runs IT and security for regulated small businesses across Northern Virginia. Defined controls, documented configuration, and reporting your assessor will accept, from a named senior engineer who owns your environment.

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NIST CSF / CIS aligned HIPAA-experienced FTC Safeguards Senior-level support

Aligned to NIST CSF & CIS Controls · HIPAA-experienced · privacy-first by design

Microsoft 365 EDR / MDR NIST CSF CIS Controls CMMC readiness

The reality for growing firms

Three problems quietly draining your business

Security you can’t prove

Clients and insurers now ask for frameworks, controls, and audits. “We have antivirus” no longer passes the test.

It lives in one person’s head

Nobody wrote down what is protected, who has access, or when the backup was last tested. That gap only surfaces under pressure.

Downtime and no clear owner

One outage, one missed patch, one confused vendor, and your team is stuck with no one clearly accountable.

One partner · Assess → Protect → Operate → Recover

Everything your technology needs, under one accountable roof

Assessment tells you where you actually stand. Security puts the safeguards in place. Managed IT keeps you running. Continuity means you can recover, and show it.

01 · Assess

Risk Assessment & Audit Readiness

A documented picture of where you actually stand, in the language an auditor, an insurer, or a prime contractor will accept.

  • Endpoint and cloud posture reviewed across every machine and account
  • Sensitive data discovery: where regulated records actually sit
  • Identity and MFA coverage measured, not assumed
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Core focus

02 · Protect

Cybersecurity & Compliance

Managed security built on recognized frameworks, so you can actually prove your posture, not just claim it.

  • Endpoint detection & response (EDR) and continuous monitoring
  • Identity, MFA, and access hardening across Microsoft 365
  • Patch, vulnerability, and email security management
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03 · Operate

Managed IT

Your outsourced IT department: proactive monitoring, fast support, and infrastructure that just works.

  • Proactive monitoring, patching, and maintenance
  • Network design, integration, and cloud administration
  • Microsoft 365 management and user lifecycle
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04 · Recover

Backup & Business Continuity

Backups that are tested, documented, and genuinely restorable, because an untested backup is a hope rather than a control.

  • Protected copies for servers, endpoints, and Microsoft 365 data
  • Recovery objectives written down and agreed, not implied
  • Restore testing on a schedule, with the results documented
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How we work

A simple, transparent path | Assess, Plan, Build

01

Assess

A review of your security posture, where your regulated data actually sits, and what a questionnaire would find. You get a plain-English written summary either way.

02

Plan

A right-sized roadmap: what to fix first, what can safely wait, and what each step costs, in priority order and without jargon.

03

Operate

We put the safeguards in place, run the environment day to day, and keep the documentation current, so the evidence exists before anyone asks for it.

Why Buckram

Enterprise-grade capability. Senior-level accountability.

Direct, senior-level support, every time Senior engineers own your account from day one, not a rotating ticket queue: the substance larger providers struggle to match.
Accountability in writing Clear, written scope, escalation, and data-ownership terms, defined up front in your services agreement, not buried.
Independent oversight by design Transparent reporting and the option of third-party assessment, so you’re never relying solely on us to grade our own work.
Built for regulated firms HIPAA, the FTC Safeguards Rule and CMMC are the constraints we design around, not an afterthought bolted on for one client.

Why the documentation is the product

Anyone can install the tool. Far fewer can produce the evidence.

When an insurer’s questionnaire lands, or a prime contractor asks where your CMMC work stands, or a patient complains to a regulator, nobody asks which product you bought. They ask what was in place, when, and who had access. We run the environment so that answer already exists.

See how we assess
  • Current written record of what is protected and who has access
  • Restore tests with recorded results, not assurances
  • Controls mapped to NIST CSF and the CIS Controls
  • Answers ready for insurer and client security questionnaires

Straight answers

Questions smart buyers ask

What exactly does Buckram do?
We are the outsourced IT and security department for regulated small businesses: dental and medical practices under HIPAA, accounting firms under the FTC Safeguards Rule, law offices, and government contractors working toward CMMC. We assess where you stand, secure and run your environment, and produce the documentation your auditor, insurer, or prime contractor asks for.
Are you actually HIPAA compliant?
No provider can make you compliant by buying their product, and we do not sell a certification we do not hold. What we do is run a security program aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the CIS Controls, implement the safeguards those rules require, and keep the documentation that evidences it. Compliance is your obligation; our job is to make it provable.
We already have someone doing our IT. What actually changes?
Usually two things. First, the work becomes documented: what is protected, who has access, when backups were last tested, all written down rather than held in one person’s head. Second, someone is accountable for the answer when an insurer or an auditor asks. Plenty of firms have working IT and no evidence, and that gap only shows up under pressure.
Do you build custom software or AI integrations?
No. Buckram is a compliance-focused managed services practice and nothing else. Keeping the scope narrow is the point: the firms we serve are buying accountability for their security posture, not a development shop.
Who provides oversight of your own work?
We support independent oversight by design: clear data-ownership terms, transparent reporting, and the option of an annual third-party assessment, so you are never relying solely on us to grade our own work.
How do we get started?
Book an assessment. We review where you are exposed and what a regulator, insurer, or client questionnaire would find, and you leave with a plain-English written summary whether or not we end up working together.

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A focused review of where you’re exposed and what a regulator, insurer, or client questionnaire would find. You leave with a clear, plain-language summary, whether or not we work together.

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