Findlay's Compliance-First IT Partner
Managed IT and cybersecurity for Hancock County's manufacturers, transportation operators, sponsor-backed companies and regional professional firms.
Findlay has outsized corporate gravity for a city its size. Marathon Petroleum's global headquarters and the Cooper Tire legacy anchor a dense ecosystem of suppliers, professional firms, and industrial contractors and that ecosystem creates a distinctive local problem: Findlay employers face carrier expectations and customer scrutiny scaled to the region's Fortune-500 gravity, not to the business itself. Atticus Rowan is the managed IT and cybersecurity partner Findlay employers use when the cyber insurance renewal questionnaire arrives, when a material customer contract requires documented controls, when a sponsor's diligence list lands or when the current in-house IT setup has run out of runway.
Why Findlay-area employers choose us
Findlay's client base reflects the region: plastics and industrial manufacturing, transportation and logistics, sponsor-backed operators and the professional services firms that serve them. When you are a mid-sized company here, you operate inside a corporate HQ ecosystem where the expectations of carriers, customers and buyers do not bend for headcount. We help Hancock County employers build the controls and the documentation that meet those expectations without pretending a small team has enterprise resources.
Response time in Findlay: Same-business-day on-site response in Hancock County for existing clients. Our engineers travel the I-75 corridor routinely, Findlay, Tiffin, Fremont, and Bowling Green all share the same regular rotation. Most routine work resolves remotely within 30 minutes during business hours.
The Findlay market
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) anchors Findlay as a Fortune 100 HQ, the downstream effect on local suppliers, professional firms and contractors is a distinctive feature of the market.
Cooper Tire (now Goodyear) legacy has seeded a generation of manufacturing, engineering and industrial-services firms across Hancock County.
Hancock County's manufacturing and industrial-services base draws recurring sponsor-backed acquisition activity, which puts IT diligence and post-close standardization on the agenda for local owners.
University of Findlay produces the regional talent pipeline, we help employers retain those hires with modern, secure infrastructure.
I-75 corridor access makes Findlay a natural hub for northwest Ohio IT support, Toledo, Tiffin, Fremont, and Lima are all within a practical service radius.
Atticus Rowan is a member of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, plugged into the Findlay employer network.
How we work with Findlay industries
Manufacturing
Findlay manufacturing ranges from plastics and polymer products to industrial minerals and precision equipment. Our manufacturing work includes plastics fabricators and industrial producers operating under customer and carrier expectations that have tightened every year. We build the control environment the next cyber insurance renewal questionnaire asks about, segment production networks from corporate, monitor the boundary, and document the backup and recovery procedures that survive a real-world incident, not just a runbook.
Private-equity portfolio companies
We support a lower-middle-market PE portfolio company that we carved out from its publicly-traded industrial-services parent operator, building the standalone IT and cybersecurity environment, operating it as the post-close MSP and producing the reporting cadence sponsors expect. That experience directly informs how we approach any Findlay-area business anticipating acquisition, carve-out or sponsor-backed growth, whether the call comes from the operating partner or from the management team that has to live with the result.
Logistics and distribution
Transportation and logistics operators in Hancock County run dispatch software, EDI integrations, fleet management, and warehouse networks that are all business-critical and all attractive ransomware targets. A Monday-morning incident cascades into missed shipments before lunch. We design resilient networks, tested backups and documented recovery procedures for logistics operators whose downtime has contractual consequences.
Professional services (legal, accounting)
Law firms, accounting firms and engineering consultancies in Findlay hold sensitive client data under professional obligations where accidental disclosure is a liability event. Our professional-services work emphasizes client-segregated access, phishing-resistant authentication, data-loss prevention and the documented evidence professional-liability carriers increasingly require at renewal.
Services emphasized in Findlay
Also serving the Findlay area
Atticus Rowan supports employers across the Hancock County, including:
Fostoria · North Baltimore · Arlington · McComb · Bluffton · Van Buren · Mount Blanchard · Arcadia
Common questions, Findlay
Our cyber insurance renewal questionnaire arrived with 60+ questions. Can you help us answer it?
Yes, this is one of the most common engagements we run. We map each question to the control already in place (with documentation), identify partial coverage (with a remediation plan), and produce a response package the carrier accepts on first review. The deliverable is a submitted questionnaire plus a short-list of improvements that meaningfully improve next year's premium and your posture.
We handle payment-card data and other regulated information. Can you help with PCI?
PCI-DSS readiness is a long-standing part of our practice. We handle segmentation between POS and corporate networks, Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) selection and completion, quarterly vulnerability scanning, documented policies and the ongoing evidence of operation that an acquiring processor or a customer audit expects.
How quickly can you get to a Findlay site?
Same business day for existing clients in Hancock and surrounding counties. Our engineers travel the I-75 corridor routinely, it is a normal part of how we work. Most tickets are resolved remotely within 30 minutes during business hours, which is why on-site visits are reserved for hardware, cabling and critical incident response.
An enterprise customer sent us a security questionnaire. What do they actually check?
Documented access control, MFA on corporate and remote access, endpoint protection with central visibility, patch management with documented SLAs, tested backup and restore, an incident response plan plus a documented tabletop, security awareness training records, a vendor-risk program and evidence that the control environment operates over time. We map each question to the control already in place and produce a response package the customer's procurement team accepts on first review.
A federal prime flowed NIST 800-171 down to us. Where do we start?
Scoping. Identify which systems and people actually touch controlled unclassified information, then build the system security plan, the scored self-assessment and the plan of action for that scope. We support 800-171 readiness; we are not a CMMC C3PAO. Most Hancock County suppliers can reach a defensible SPRS score in 90 to 120 days once the scope is honest.
We're approaching a potential PE sale or recapitalization. What should we have in place?
Documented cybersecurity program mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, tested backup and recovery with evidence of operation, cyber insurance in force, no hidden incident history, vendor-risk inventory and a prioritized roadmap for identified gaps. We have supported a full carve-out from a publicly-traded industrial-services parent and now operate as the post-close MSP for that portfolio company, so we have lived the diligence and post-close cadence. Starting 18-24 months before a transaction is typical; starting later is still tractable but compresses the options.
SOC 2, is that something you can help us pursue?
Yes. We guide companies preparing for SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits, building the control environment, operating it long enough to produce the evidence the auditor needs and coordinating with the SOC 2 audit firm. We are not a SOC 2 audit firm ourselves; we are the MSP that makes the audit reach a clean opinion.
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