Black River Technologies is a type of technology cooperative MSP focused on cyber security.

Why a cooperative?

• The ability to take on clients with greater needs
• Leverage complementary skills
• Economy of scale in overhead and administration, more options in facilities and support systems
• More than the sum of its parts

Over the years of providing cybersecurity services to the Department of Defense and the financial services industry, we kept crossing paths with CEOs, presidents and business owners at their worst moment of need. It was typical because they were the victim of electronic fraud and had nowhere else to turn. What most found shocking is that the FDIC does NOT protect you from bank fraud, and the bank Is NOT responsible for getting your money back!!!
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The cybercrime community knows that small businesses are low-hanging-fruit because small businesses don’t believe they are the target, and therefore have very loose or no security system and protocols in place. They thought the bad guys were going after big businesses like Target and Bank of America. They were WRONG.  Small Businesses were losing $15,000 here and $50,000 there, putting some out of business. The big companies had deep pockets and Cyber Security Insurance policies to fall back on, the small businesses did not.

If you’re wondering why you don’t hear about it more often from your fellow businesses at the Chamber meeting or the golf outing it's because they don’t want anyone to know.  First, they may have a legal obligation to report, second it will have negative consequences to their reputation and last they are just embarrassed.

With One in Five small businesses falling victim to cyber crime each year I recognized the need to provide a proactive rather than reactive approach.  The same proactive approach that large organizations use, just scaled down to fit small businesses.  In 2014, I started Black River Technologies LLC a Managed Services Provider that focuses on small businesses in the Midwest. 

Black River Technologies, delivers flexible managed security services that work the way clients want; enhancing their existing security program, infrastructure, and personnel while relieving the information security and compliance burden.​