Your IT team. Our security arm.
Your internal IT person keeps the business running. We become the specialist layer beside them — the 24/7 monitoring, detection and response most internal teams were never resourced to build alone.
- MODEL · augment, not replace
- COVERAGE · nights, weekends, overflow
- SECURITY · gaps closed, not duplicated
- REPORTING · direct to your IT manager
One good IT person can’t be a 24/7 security team.
Your internal IT hire is good at what they were hired for — keeping the business running day to day. Continuous threat monitoring, incident response and compliance are a different discipline, running a different clock.
- One internal IT person, expected to also be a 24/7 security operations centre.
- No cover for leave, illness, or the day they simply move on.
- Security monitoring left to “whoever has time,” which is no one, reliably.
- A board asking security questions your IT manager was never resourced to answer alone.
We slot in beside your team. Never on top of it.
Co-Managed IT is built on one rule: nothing is taken from your internal team without being asked first. We fill the specialist gap — your IT manager keeps the seat.
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We fill the gaps, not the org chart
GMAN takes on the specialist monitoring, detection and response your internal team was never resourced to run — nothing more, unless asked.
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We hand off cleanly, every time
Findings, incidents and reports route through your IT manager as the single point of internal accountability — never around them.
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We bring the coverage one person can't
24/7/365 monitoring, weekend cover and leave backup, without adding a second internal hire.
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We never touch what your team already owns, unannounced
Boundaries are agreed at onboarding and respected — this is augmentation, not a quiet takeover.
Augment. Never replace.
Your internal team keeps every relationship and every piece of context they've built. We add the layer beside it.
Your internal IT team
- Day-to-day support and business context no outsider replaces overnight.
- Ownership of internal applications and staff relationships.
- The final decision on anything that touches how the business runs.
- A single named seat at the table — your IT manager stays the internal lead.
GMAN's security arm
- 24/7/365 monitoring, detection and response.
- Independent security review and compliance tracking.
- Overflow, after-hours and leave coverage.
- A virtual CISO relationship for board-level questions.
The specialist layer, without the headcount.
Every line below sits beside your internal team, reporting through them — not around them.
Reports to your IT managerCo-Managed IT — Inclusions Ledger
- 24/7/365 security monitoringLayered over your existing helpdesk and infrastructure — coverage your internal team isn't rostered to provide alone.
- Managed detection & responseThe specialist monitoring discipline most internal IT teams were never resourced to build.
- Direct escalation to your IT managerFindings and incidents are reported through your IT manager, not around them.
- Overflow and after-hours supportNights, weekends, leave and busy periods covered without your team burning out.
- Independent security reviewA second set of eyes on the environment your team already manages — validation, not an audit to fear.
- Access to a virtual CISO relationshipBoard-level security questions have somewhere to go, without adding headcount.
One IT manager. A security team behind him.
Two IT staff. Zero security specialists. One quiet gap.
- The internal team was excellent at keeping trucks moving and systems running — and stretched too thin for continuous monitoring.
- No one had reviewed the firewall configuration in over a year.
- The IT manager wanted oversight, not a takeover, and no provider had offered that model before.
GMAN now runs 24/7 monitoring and detection beside the internal team, reporting every finding through the IT manager — who kept his seat and gained a specialist arm.
The questions every IT manager asks first.
No. Co-Managed IT is built specifically not to. Your IT manager keeps their seat, their relationships and their authority — we add the specialist security layer beside them.
Whatever you decide at onboarding. Most clients keep their internal team as the first point of contact and route the specialist escalations to us — the reporting line is agreed up front, not assumed.
That's the most common concern, and the fastest to resolve once the model is clear: this is a second set of specialist hands, not an audit of their competence.
Your team stays. The gap doesn’t.
See exactly where your internal team’s coverage ends and where a specialist security arm needs to begin. The assessment fee is credited toward your first year.