An enterprise customer requires SOC 2
Your team needs controls, evidence, policies, and a credible readiness plan before the opportunity stalls.
Cybersecurity and Compliance Operations
Turn Security Requirements Into Revenue, Trust, and Resilience
Smart Biz iT helps growing SaaS companies clear enterprise security reviews and helps independent healthcare, accounting, and law firms protect sensitive data, meet compliance obligations, and maintain audit-ready evidence without building an internal cybersecurity department.
Michigan-rootedNationwide for cloud-first SaaS teams
Implementation FirstControls, evidence, and operating ownership
Independent AssuranceAuditors and assessors perform formal attestations
01AssessUnderstand risk and priorities
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02ImplementPut controls and evidence in place
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03OperateMaintain ownership and cadence
Cybersecurity and Compliance Operations
What does Smart Biz iT do?
Smart Biz iT is an implementation-first cybersecurity and compliance partner. We assess risk, implement technical and administrative controls, organize evidence, manage the security stack, and maintain the operating cadence required by customers, regulators, insurers, and leadership teams.
Trusted by innovative organizations
Security requirements usually become urgent before the team is ready
A security questionnaire is blocking a deal
The questions reach across systems, policies, vendors, incidents, access, and governance, but no one internally owns the complete answer.
A practice or firm handles sensitive data
Patient, tax, financial, and legal information require more than basic IT support and antivirus.
Cyber insurance renewal requires stronger controls
The application asks about multifactor authentication, backups, endpoint protection, email security, response plans, and evidence.
Security tools exist, but no one operates the program
The software is installed, but responsibilities, reviews, evidence, and follow-through remain unclear.
A risk assessment created a backlog
The findings exist. The organization now needs sequencing, implementation, ownership, and proof.
Industry Solutions
Built for smaller organizations with serious security obligations
Different industries face different triggers, data risks, buyer expectations, and evidence requirements. Smart Biz iT uses a repeatable operating model while adapting scope, terminology, controls, and proof to each environment.
SaaS and B2B Software
Close enterprise opportunities, prepare for SOC 2, answer security questionnaires, and build a program that can scale.
Explore SaaS Security and Compliance ›Independent Healthcare Practices
Protect patient information, address HIPAA Security Rule obligations, and establish practical ownership across people, systems, vendors, and evidence.
Explore Healthcare Security ›CPA and Accounting Firms
Implement a written information security plan, strengthen client-data protection, and prepare for insurer and FTC Safeguards Rule expectations.
Explore Accounting Firm Security ›Law Firms
Reduce email compromise and wire-fraud exposure while improving secure collaboration, confidential-data controls, and cyber insurance readiness.
Explore Law Firm Security ›Practical execution. Clear ownership. Sustainable operations.
Smart Biz iT’s Technical Operations Analysts work alongside client teams to implement controls, support secure systems, maintain documentation, and keep projects moving from initial configuration through ongoing operations.
Hands-on Implementation
Marco supports the practical implementation of cybersecurity, cloud, and IT controls within client environments. His work helps turn project requirements into configured systems, documented changes, and reliable technical outcomes.
Reliable Technical Operations
Jeremy supports ongoing technical operations, system administration, documentation, and client follow-through. His work helps keep environments organized, secure, and operating consistently after implementation.
Assess. Implement. Operate.
A practical service path from understanding risk to implementing controls and maintaining the program.
Assess: Smart Security Snapshot
Implement: Smart Compliance Readiness
Operate: Compliance Security
Independent parties perform formal assessments
Founder-led. Client-focused.
Shawn Thornton founded Smart Biz iT to help smaller organizations address cybersecurity and compliance requirements with practical execution, clear ownership, and sustainable operating systems.
What our clients say
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Working with Shawn & Smart Biz IT has been a fantastic experience. Super knowledgeable about systems and cybersecurity, and it gives me peace of mind knowing that my business is in safe hands.
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Working with Shawn Thornton at Smart Biz iT was an excellent experience for our brand email migration to Google Workspace. Shawn made the complex setup of our new accounts, secure multi-factor authentication, and the team inbox incredibly smooth. Knowledgeable support, quick troubleshooting, and proactive security measures give us peace of mind. Highly recommend.
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Shawn did a fantastic job walking me through his process for resolving a host of technology issues I was facing. He's incredibly detailed and organized, and he communicates thoroughly at every step. Shawn understands that technology is a tool we rely on, and he works hard to make sure it runs smoothly so we can stay focused on our work.
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Shawn was very informative about the computer systems in my office. He identified vulnerable areas and developed strong solutions, including encrypted email, cloud-based backups, and 24-hour monitoring. The quarterly review is something no other IT company had offered before.
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Shawn is so informative and extremely helpful. He has helped me identify important ways to protect and strengthen my business that I was not previously aware of. I am very thankful to have met and worked with Shawn.
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