Orlando Managed IT Services FAQ
Common questions Orlando-area businesses ask before engaging a managed IT services provider — answered plainly.
Architectural pattern for SMB-scale managed IT?
Cloud-forward identity (Microsoft Entra), endpoint estate managed via Intune with EDR/MDR overlay, email and collaboration on Microsoft 365 with appropriate licensing, perimeter security at the firewall and email gateway, segmented network at the LAN with appropriate VLAN structure, layered backup architecture, and centralized log retention. Server footprint minimized — on-premises servers retained only where application architecture or compliance requires.
Identity-and-access design under Microsoft Entra?
Hybrid or cloud-only identity model depending on legacy footprint. MFA enforced on all accounts; FIDO2 or app-based authenticators preferred over SMS; conditional access policies enforcing device compliance, location, and risk-based authentication. Privileged identity management for admin accounts with time-bounded elevation. Synchronized AD-DS where on-premises identity remains required; greenfield deployments cloud-only.
Conditional-access policy posture for SMB?
Block legacy authentication, require MFA for all users, require compliant device for sensitive applications, block sign-in from known anonymous proxies and high-risk countries (Tor exit nodes, anomalous geo patterns), require password change on detected risk events. Risk-based session controls on Microsoft 365 admin consoles. Reviewed quarterly minimum, updated as Microsoft releases new conditional-access primitives.
Backup-and-DR architecture for hurricane country?
Image-level backups of critical servers with on-site retention plus off-site replication to a region outside Florida; immutable backup copies satisfying ransomware-recovery resilience criteria; M365 third-party backup for mail, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams; documented recovery time objective and recovery point objective per system tier; annual full DR test; quarterly partial restore tests. Hurricane-specific: cloud-only operating mode tested before season.
Network segmentation patterns for compliance overlays?
Compliance-relevant systems (cardholder-data environment for PCI, protected-health-information systems for HIPAA, regulated workloads for FTC Safeguards) segmented to dedicated VLANs with firewall-enforced access controls. Guest Wi-Fi isolated. IoT and OT devices on separate VLAN with limited east-west traffic. North-south traffic logged at the firewall. Periodic firewall-rule review and segmentation audit.
Where is the provider located?
Dytech Group, 257 Plaza Dr, Ste. D, Oviedo FL 32765. Off SR-417 in Oviedo. (407) 678-8300; dytech.com.
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