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Total Vigilance

You shouldn't need to understand cybersecurity to feel secure. Total Vigilance is MSI's way of watching over your people, your devices, your network, and your data, so you can get on with running your business.

Overview

Security you don't have to think about

One team watches over every part of how your business uses technology, and keeps it all current as threats change. You don't need to know how it works, only that someone does.

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What it covers

Every way in, watched over

Attackers look for the easiest way in, so protection covers each part of how your business uses technology.

  • Total Vigilance: User

    Attackers often go after people before technology. AI-driven filtering catches suspicious email, simulated phishing tests keep your team practiced, and ongoing training helps everyone spot the ones that slip through.

  • Total Vigilance: Endpoint

    Every laptop, desktop, and server is a doorway. People get only the access their work needs, while trusted programs are approved automatically so nothing slows down. If something does go wrong, the device is cut off from the rest of your network so the problem can't spread.

  • Total Vigilance: Network

    Your network connects everything, so it's watched continuously for anything unusual. That protects you from the outside world, and it keeps a compromised device from being used against others, which protects your reputation too.

  • Total Vigilance: Identity

    A stolen password can do as much damage as a break-in, and today even two-step sign-ins can be stolen. So protection goes beyond passwords, recognizing the subtle signs that someone is using access that isn't theirs and working to shut it down before damage is done.

  • Total Vigilance: Cloud

    Your email, files, and shared workspaces in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace are backed up, so a mistake or an attack doesn't have to mean lost work. Account settings are checked for weak spots, held to a strong standard once in place, and watched for suspicious activity.

Ways to have it

One Total Vigilance, three ways to have it.

The same protection, whether MSI runs your IT, works beside your team, or simply watches over security.

  • With Complete Managed IT

    Total Vigilance is built into the plan, not sold as an add-on. It's part of the planning with your account team, so protection adjusts as your business grows.

  • With Co-managed IT

    Your IT team keeps handling the day to day, and Total Vigilance gives them a security foundation they don't have to build or watch alone. Roles are agreed up front, so the two work side by side.

  • On its own

    Already have a full IT department? Total Vigilance can stand on its own, a managed security suite with people watching over it. When something is detected, MSI can act on it, or alerts can go straight to your team.

Why it's different

Not your typical security package

  • Complete from the start

    You get the protection you actually need from the start, not a basic package with the important parts sold separately later.

  • Chosen carefully, kept current

    Each tool is chosen as the best in its category, then re-evaluated as technology changes, so your protection doesn't age in place.

  • Managed as one

    Every area is managed as one suite, so the pieces work with each other instead of each standing alone.

  • Stays out of the way

    Protection is tuned so it doesn't get in the way of your team's work, and updated often to keep it strong.

What clients say

Told straight, by the people who hired us

Their support team is prompt and thorough, and they work together if ever escalation is needed to resolve your pain as quickly as possible. I highly recommend them!

Office Manager Manufacturing

MSI has great and knowledgeable salespeople, along with excellent technicians, who are always very gracious and timely with our service call requests. Special Thanks also to all the wonderful and patient people at your “Help Desk”. We truly do appreciate all of you!

Production Assistant Insurance Sales

I 100% recommend Metro Sales. Prior to my employment here at my current company, I actually worked for another IT company like Metro Sales, and have been familiar with their company for years. When we got too big and busy for me to be able to manage all our IT needs, I vetted about 5 different companies. Metro Sales has the most fair pricing structure, they don't nickel and dime your every need, they listen to what's important to your organization, and offer you a path forward that fits your budget.

Katie MTS
FAQ

Questions we get
before the first call

Straight answers to what business owners ask us most about Total Vigilance. Anything else, a real person will answer today.

Ask us directly

No, and no one can honestly promise that. "Total" describes the coverage, every part of how your business uses technology protected and managed together. The goal is to make attacks much harder, catch problems early, and limit the damage if something gets through, with backups so your work isn't lost.

Attackers look for the easiest way in, not the best-defended one. It might be a convincing email, an unprotected laptop, a stolen password, or a loose setting in a cloud account. Locking the front door doesn't help much if a window is open, so every area needs protecting.

Antivirus is one tool guarding one area, and many attacks today don't involve a virus at all. Total Vigilance covers your people, devices, network, accounts, and cloud services, managed together and watched around the clock, so the gaps between tools don't become the way in.

It's built not to. Trusted programs are approved automatically, people have the access their work needs, and protection is tuned and updated regularly so it stays strong without getting in the way. Most of what your team experiences is things simply working.

Someone is watching around the clock, so it's looked at right away. Depending on how you work with MSI, MSI acts on it or the alert goes straight to your IT team. Either way, who does what is agreed in advance, so there's no scrambling in the moment.
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