Gahanna's Corporate-Ops IT Partner
Managed IT and cybersecurity for Gahanna's corporate back-office operators, airport-adjacent logistics and light-industrial firms, sponsor-backed operators and the professional practices of Columbus's east corridor.
Gahanna sits at the intersection of corporate operations centers, airport-adjacent logistics and a dense professional-services base. Fortune 500 back-office operations (Nationwide, Cardinal Health, Accenture), John Glenn and Rickenbacker airport-adjacent logistics and light industrial, and the legal and consulting firms that serve them define the local compliance environment. Sponsor-backed operators in the east corridor add a diligence and reporting layer on top of it. Atticus Rowan is built for that mix and we serve Gahanna as part of our central-Ohio expansion.
Why Gahanna-area employers choose us
Gahanna-area employers, corporate back-office operations, logistics and light-industrial operators, sponsor-backed companies and professional firms, face customer, carrier and diligence expectations that assume a documented cybersecurity program already exists. Our practice is designed for that expectation level.
Response time in Gahanna: Remote-first from our Tiffin HQ. Most routine work resolves remotely within 30 minutes during business hours. On-site engagements in Franklin County are scheduled in advance for hardware, cabling and critical incident response.
The Gahanna market
Nationwide's IT and corporate-ops footprint in Gahanna anchors a large corporate back-office employer base.
Cardinal Health's regional operations and related pharmaceutical-distribution footprint contribute to a distinct IT and compliance profile.
Accenture's Columbus operations and other consulting/BPO firms create a concentration of technology-services employers.
John Glenn International and Rickenbacker Inland Port proximity drive an airport-adjacent logistics, freight-forwarder and light-industrial ecosystem.
Logistics and industrial-services operators in the east corridor are frequent add-on targets for Columbus-based sponsors.
I-270 and I-670 corridor positioning places Gahanna within a flexible service radius for central-Ohio clients.
How we work with Gahanna industries
Manufacturing
Light-industrial and contract manufacturers along the I-670 and Rickenbacker corridors east of Columbus operate under customer and carrier expectations that have tightened every year, and the ones supplying aerospace, automotive or semiconductor primes now see security questionnaires with the first purchase order. Our manufacturing approach segments production from corporate, protects OT and produces the documented evidence customer reviews and cyber insurance carriers expect.
Private-equity portfolio companies
We support a lower-middle-market PE portfolio company we carved out from its publicly-traded industrial-services parent operator, building the standalone IT environment, operating as the post-close MSP and producing the reporting cadence sponsors expect. That experience directly informs our engagement model for Columbus-metro operating partners and the portfolio CEOs running logistics, industrial and business-services companies in the east corridor.
Professional services (legal, accounting)
Law firms, accounting firms and engineering consultancies in Gahanna hold sensitive client data under professional and liability obligations. Our professional-services work emphasizes client-segregated access, phishing-resistant authentication, data-loss prevention and documented evidence professional-liability carriers demand at renewal.
Logistics and distribution
John Glenn and Rickenbacker airport-adjacent logistics operators, freight-forwarders and distribution firms face a logistics profile where dispatch software, EDI, fleet management and warehouse networks are business-critical and attractive ransomware targets. We design resilient networks, tested backups and documented recovery procedures for logistics operators whose downtime has contractual consequences.
Technology and SaaS
Software firms, engineering services and data-adjacent operators in the Columbus east corridor face customer security reviews that escalate rapidly as the first enterprise deals land. We guide product-led companies through SOC 2 readiness, vendor-risk programs and documented evidence enterprise procurement expects.
Services emphasized in Gahanna
Also serving the Gahanna area
Atticus Rowan supports employers across the Franklin County, including:
New Albany · Westerville · Reynoldsburg · Blacklick · Pickerington · Whitehall · Bexley · Pataskala
Common questions, Gahanna
We're a corporate-services firm serving Fortune 500 customers in the Columbus corridor. What do their vendor reviews expect?
Fortune 500 vendor-review programs typically require a documented cybersecurity program (NIST CSF 2.0 or SOC 2), MFA, endpoint protection with visibility, patch management with documented SLAs, tested backups, documented incident response, a vendor-risk program and evidence of operation over time. We build the documentation package enterprise procurement reviews expect and keep it current.
Are you built for airport-adjacent logistics operators?
Yes. Airport-adjacent logistics, freight forwarders, customs brokers, bonded warehouses, runs on dispatch, EDI and TMS systems that are business-critical and often expose customer data at scale. Our logistics approach designs the resilient network, tested backups and documented recovery procedures that contractual SLAs require.
Our biggest customer just sent a security questionnaire. Where do we start?
With an honest inventory of what is already in place. We map each question to an existing control (with documentation), flag partial coverage with a remediation plan and produce a response package the customer's procurement team accepts on first review. Most east-corridor manufacturers and logistics operators can reach a defensible submission in 30-60 days, faster if the basics like MFA and tested backups already exist.
A Columbus sponsor is acquiring us. What does the first 100 days look like for IT?
A baseline assessment against NIST CSF 2.0 in the first 2 weeks, a standardized endpoint and identity stack by day 45, a documented incident response plan with a tested tabletop by day 60, MFA on every system touching customer data by day 75 and centralized logging with monthly board-ready reporting by day 90. We have supported a full carve-out from a publicly-traded industrial-services parent and operate as the post-close MSP for that portfolio company, so the cadence is lived, not theoretical.
Our cyber insurance carrier is asking harder questions every year. Can you help?
Yes. Cyber insurance renewal questionnaire support 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.
SOC 2, can you help us pursue it?
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.
How fast can you respond to an on-site issue in Gahanna?
Most routine work resolves remotely within 30 minutes during business hours. On-site engagements in Franklin County are scheduled in advance for hardware, cabling and critical incident response.
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