CySentry Governance & Architecture

Infrastructure · Governance · Architecture

Enterprise infrastructure. Right-sized for your business.

CySentry helps organizations design, modernize, govern, and protect critical technology environments—from focused business infrastructure to complex enterprise transformation.

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Risk
Resilience
Economics
Governance
Vendor-neutral
Client-owned technology
Independent architecture
Serving clients since 2007

Our philosophy

The standard can be enterprise-grade. The implementation should fit the organization.

You do not need more technology. You need the right technology, controls, and architecture for the problem in front of you.

CySentry focuses on the business requirement and control objective first. That may mean public cloud, private infrastructure, hybrid architecture, lightweight governance, or a complex enterprise platform. The answer should follow the requirement—not the logo on a sales deck.

What we help solve

Five ways to engage CySentry.

From a first assessment to a major integration program, we scale the engagement to the environment rather than forcing every client into the same operating model.

Build

Design it correctly.

Infrastructure architecture for new platforms, refreshes, private cloud, virtualization, storage, network, identity, backup, and hybrid environments.

  • Architecture blueprints
  • Capacity & resilience
  • Implementation planning
Stabilize

Know what can fail.

Assess technical debt, lifecycle risk, backup and recovery capability, operational weak points, and infrastructure dependencies before they become business interruptions.

  • Health assessments
  • DR / continuity reviews
  • Remediation planning
Optimize

Spend with purpose.

Evaluate cloud economics, platform placement, vendor proposals, licensing assumptions, and unnecessary complexity with an independent architectural perspective.

  • Cloud cost reviews
  • Proposal analysis
  • Platform rationalization
Govern

Stand up to scrutiny.

Practical governance and audit readiness for organizations facing stronger expectations from customers, corporate parents, insurers, auditors, regulators, or rapidly changing technologies such as AI.

  • Audit readiness
  • Change management
  • AI policy, controls & evidence
Transform

Change without chaos.

Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, migrations, consolidations, identity integration, datacenter transformation, and other high-consequence infrastructure change.

  • M&A due diligence & integration
  • Infrastructure consolidation
  • Enterprise transformation

AI & emerging technology

Adopt AI deliberately, not accidentally.

AI capabilities are moving faster than most operating models. CySentry helps organizations evaluate desktop, productivity, and agent-based tools through the same architecture, security, data, identity, risk, and change-management disciplines used for other consequential technology decisions. The goal is not to force an “AI solution,” but to establish where AI fits, what should be controlled, and how adoption can remain supportable as the market evolves.

AI acceptable-use controlsApproved-tool governanceData & privacy reviewAgent / desktop readinessIdentity & accessChange-management integration

Defined engagements

Start small. Get something useful.

Published prices are practical starting points for smaller and mid-sized environments. Pricing scales with complexity, scope, geography, regulatory requirements, and technical footprint—not headcount alone.

Independent second opinion

Vendor Proposal Review

$1,250 starting

Already have a quote? We review architecture, sizing, redundancy, licensing, support, lifecycle, and the assumptions behind the proposal before you sign.

Ideal before a material infrastructure purchase.
Operational risk

Infrastructure Health Assessment

$2,500 starting

A structured review of infrastructure health, technical debt, lifecycle exposure, resilience, backup, operational risk, and improvement priorities.

You receive findings and a prioritized roadmap.
Governance

Audit Readiness Assessment

$2,500 starting

Assess controls, processes, documentation, evidence readiness, and operational gaps before a customer review, corporate requirement, security assessment, or formal audit.

Practical controls sized to the organization—not enterprise tooling for its own sake.
Governance foundation

Change Management Foundation

$2,500 starting

Create a usable change-control model with approval rules, standard and emergency change definitions, rollback expectations, evidence requirements, and workflow guidance.

Built to work with the tools you already have where practical.
Infrastructure economics

Cloud Cost & Workload Placement Review

$3,500 starting

Compare cloud, private, hosted, colocation, and hybrid alternatives using workload requirements, growth, resilience, operational capability, and multi-year economics.

If the best answer is to stay where you are, we will tell you that too.
Target-state design

Infrastructure Architecture Blueprint

$5,000 starting

Requirements analysis, target architecture, capacity assumptions, resilience model, technology options, budgetary guidance, and an implementation path.

The architecture is yours. Implementation is optional.
Need ongoing help? Governance & Audit Advisory and Infrastructure Advisory engagements typically start around $2,000–$2,500/month. Major implementation, M&A, and enterprise transformation work is individually scoped.

Complex Transformation & M&A

Defined engagements where the problem is repeatable. Custom engagements where the problem is complex.

Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and major infrastructure change rarely fit a rate card. CySentry scopes these engagements around the environment, timeline, business risk, regulatory exposure, and degree of technical integration required.

Custom scoped engagement
Technical Due DiligenceSurface infrastructure risk, technical debt, dependencies, security concerns, and integration constraints before they become post-close surprises.
Day 0 / Day 1 ReadinessPlan identity, connectivity, access, support, communications, and critical service continuity for the moment the organizations begin operating together.
Identity & Directory IntegrationActive Directory, Entra, tenant, authentication, access, and trust consolidation designed around security and business continuity.
Infrastructure HarmonizationNormalize compute, storage, network, cloud, backup, monitoring, tooling, licensing, and operating standards across environments.
Divestiture & SeparationCarve out identities, applications, data, infrastructure, and vendor dependencies while protecting continuity on both sides of the transaction.
Post-Close GovernanceEstablish the architecture, controls, change discipline, remediation priorities, and execution cadence needed to turn integration plans into operating reality.
Enterprise capability without a reseller agenda. CySentry can lead the work, augment an internal IT organization, or provide independent architecture and governance alongside existing partners. Discuss a complex engagement →

Infrastructure economics

Cloud isn't a strategy. Neither is on-prem.

Infrastructure should follow workload requirements, economics, resilience, security, and operational capability. For stable, data-heavy workloads, a compact private platform can sometimes outperform years of recurring cloud expense. For other workloads, public cloud is clearly the right home.

Public Cloud

Elasticity, reach, cloud-native services, rapid change.

Private

Predictable workloads, data density, control, long-lived economics.

Hybrid

Different workloads placed where each makes the most sense.

How we work

Engage only where you need us.

A CySentry engagement can stop after an assessment, continue through implementation, or become an ongoing governance relationship. Each phase stands on its own.

01

Assess

Understand the environment, requirement, risk, and business constraints.

02

Design

Define the target architecture, controls, priorities, and execution plan.

03

Advise

Evaluate vendors, proposals, licensing, options, and procurement decisions.

04

Implement

Build the solution or work alongside your internal team and existing providers.

05

Govern

Maintain architecture, lifecycle, controls, audit readiness, and strategic direction.

Start with one phase. Stop after any phase.The work performed remains yours, including architecture, recommendations, documentation, and client-owned technology relationships.

Vendor-neutral by design

We recommend what fits. We don't make money from what you buy.

CySentry is paid for consulting, architecture, implementation, and governance—not for pushing a preferred hardware, software, or cloud platform.

Your technology. Your vendors. Your choice.

Already standardized?
We work within established enterprise standards when they fit the requirement.
Need options?
We compare platforms and vendors against the architecture and business case.
Have an MSP or VAR?
We can work alongside them as your independent architecture resource.
Need us to build it?
We can implement the approved design without taking ownership away from you.

Built to scale with the problem

The principles stay the same. The engagement expands with the environment.

CySentry can support an organization that needs its first resilient infrastructure standard, an established IT department that wants an independent specialist, or a global enterprise managing high-consequence change.

Focused environment

50–100 employees

Virtualization refresh, backup architecture, change management, audit readiness, cloud cost review, or an independent proposal assessment.

Growing organization

100–1,000+ employees

Modernization, infrastructure governance, hybrid architecture, multi-site resilience, vendor oversight, audit preparation, and ongoing advisory.

Enterprise complexity

Global / M&A / transformation

Directory and infrastructure integration, consolidation, divestiture, governance, complex migrations, architecture leadership, and post-close execution.

Experience behind the architecture

Technical depth with business accountability.

CySentry brings nearly two decades of consulting history and more than twenty years of infrastructure leadership experience to projects where reliability, governance, cost, security, and execution all matter at the same time.

The company is the modern DBA identity of SparkDog Consulting, Inc., established in Chicago in 2007. CySentry preserves the independent consulting model that built long-term client relationships: the client owns the technology, and we are paid for the expertise.

Infrastructure ArchitectureCompute, storage, network, identity, cloud, private infrastructure, resilience.
Governance & AuditControls, change management, AI governance, readiness, evidence, DR exercises, remediation.
M&A & TransformationTechnical due diligence, Day 0 / Day 1 readiness, integration, consolidation, migration, and divestiture.
Independent AdvisoryBudget, vendors, proposals, roadmaps, lifecycle, architecture governance.

Start a conversation

Have an infrastructure question?

You do not need to know which service you need. Tell us what you are trying to solve, what is changing, or what decision is in front of you.

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