Industries We Know Well
Manufacturers under customer-audit and insurance pressure. Private equity portfolio companies and the sponsors behind them. That's where we go deepest.
Where We Do Our Best Work
We go deepest in 2 industries where compliance pressure is constant: manufacturing and private equity portfolio companies. Both are where we've built the most muscle, from plant floors to carve-outs. They aren't a guest list. If you run a growing business facing a customer security audit, a cyber insurance renewal or a buyer's diligence list, we'd like to talk, whatever your industry.
Manufacturing
Your customers are asking tougher security questions. Your production systems can't afford downtime. Your intellectual property is your competitive advantage.
Customer Security Questionnaires
Stop scrambling when your biggest customer sends a security audit. We help you build the documentation and controls that satisfy enterprise requirements.
Production System Protection
Ransomware doesn't care about your production schedule. We secure your ERP, engineering systems and business applications with tested backup and recovery.
Multi-Site Infrastructure
Consistent security and support across all your facilities, whether you have two locations or twenty.
NIST 800-171 Readiness
If a federal prime has flowed NIST 800-171 down to your contracts, we help you build the system security plan, close the control gaps and submit on the deadline. We support 800-171 readiness; we are not a CMMC C3PAO.
Why Manufacturers Choose Us
We Understand Manufacturing
After two decades on manufacturing floors, we know office IT and production systems are not the same animal, and we treat them that way.
Practical, Not Perfect
We build security programs that work for your budget and your operations, not theoretical frameworks you can't implement.
Ready When You Need Us
Production schedules don't pause for IT issues. We respond fast when production is on the line.
Reading for manufacturers
All manufacturing posts →September 4, 2026
The Windows 7 box running your CNC: legacy systems on the plant floor
When the controller PC cannot be upgraded and cannot be replaced, you still have 4 real options. Here is how to rank them honestly.
September 2, 2026
When the line stops: what ransomware downtime actually costs a manufacturer
The ransom is the small number. Missed ship dates, contract penalties, spoiled work in process and recovery overtime are where a plant really pays.
May 26, 2026
POA&M for NIST 800-171, anatomy of a defensible plan of action
What a Plan of Action and Milestones actually contains, why assessors read it before the System Security Plan and how to build one that holds up under prime contractor and DoD review.
PE Portfolio Companies
Sponsors and operating partners need a portfolio company's IT to hold up in diligence, separate cleanly in a carve-out and run without drama through the hold period. Portfolio company leadership needs a partner who can deliver all of that on the deal's schedule, not IT's. We help both move fast without breaking things.
IT Due Diligence Support
Sell-side or buy-side. We help management answer the IT questions a buyer asks, and we help sponsors understand what they are acquiring before the LOI turns into a close.
Carve-Out Execution
Separating from parent-company IT under a TSA clock is complex. We've done it before and know how to get it done on timeline.
Post-Close Standardization
The 100-day plan, add-on integration and a consistent security baseline across the portfolio, with reporting the operating partner can actually use.
Exit Readiness
Building the IT infrastructure and documentation that protects valuation when it's time to sell.
Why PE-Backed Companies Choose Us
Speed Matters
Deal timelines are aggressive. We know how to move fast and deliver on schedule.
We've Done This Before
We carved a lower-middle-market portfolio company out from its publicly-traded industrial-services parent operator and run it today as the post-close IT partner. Fewer surprises for the sponsor and the management team.
Reporting Both Sides Can Use
Evidence-backed status the operating partner can put in a board deck and the CFO can act on. Whether you're 15 employees today or 150 in 2 years, we scale with you.
Reading for PE portfolio operators
All PE portfolio posts →May 12, 2026
PE diligence in food processing: what sponsors look for
The 10 cybersecurity diligence items that move price or kill deals in food processing PE transactions. Where dairy, meat and nut processors typically fail.
May 5, 2026
Detroit, PE portfolio cybersecurity in the sponsor-office corridor
Why the Detroit metro's sponsor-office density makes portfolio-company cybersecurity a different operating problem than it is in lower-density PE markets, and what works.
April 20, 2026
Cybersecurity and enterprise valuation, how much it actually matters
A practical view of how cybersecurity posture affects transaction outcomes, deal multipliers and retrade risk at mid-market PE exits, with honest ranges for the magnitude of impact.
Common questions
Which industries does Atticus Rowan focus on?
Two core verticals are featured on this page: manufacturers facing customer security audits, cyber insurance requirements and NIST 800-171 flow-downs, and private equity portfolio companies moving through diligence, carve-out, post-close standardization and exit. We also serve professional-services firms (legal, accounting, engineering consulting) where the same compliance-first discipline applies.
Do you work with industries outside the two on this page?
Yes, when the operator fits our compliance-first profile. If your company faces customer security audits, cyber insurance scrutiny or enterprise procurement reviews, the engagement model applies regardless of vertical. We do not serve strict government clients (counties, sheriffs, public schools, public libraries, public health departments, state agencies).
How does your approach differ between manufacturing and PE work?
The control focus shifts. Manufacturers emphasize production system protection, customer security questionnaires and cyber insurance renewal readiness. PE portfolio companies emphasize pre-close diligence, carve-out execution, post-close standardization and sponsor-facing reporting. The framework alignment (NIST CSF 2.0 most common) and baseline controls are consistent. The emphasis and documentation cadence flex with the situation.
Do you work with the sponsor or with the portfolio company?
Both. Sponsors and operating partners engage us for diligence, carve-out planning and portfolio-wide standards. Portfolio company leadership engages us as the day-to-day managed IT and security partner after close. Most engagements involve both, with reporting that serves the operating partner and the CFO at the same time.
We're regulated but we're not manufacturing or PE-backed. Are we still a fit?
Almost certainly, yes. What matters to us isn't your industry label, it's whether you're facing real audit or customer-security pressure. If you are, let's talk.
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