--- title: Boost Your Business Efficiency with Co-Managed IT Services description: Discover how co-managed IT strengthens your SMB's infrastructure, enhances cybersecurity, and offers cost-effective solutions. image: https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/A%20collaboration%20between%20an%20MSP%20and%20a%20company.webp --- [![LAZ-Full-Horizontal-REV Just the Name](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/Logos/Lazorpoint%20Logos/LAZ-Full-Horizontal-REV%20Just%20the%20Name.png) ](https://www.lazorpoint.com) ![burger icon](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/Digifianz/Assets/Icons/Burger%20white.png) ![times icon](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/Digifianz/Assets/Icons/Times%20white.png) IT Solutions That Deliver Peace of Mind [Solutions](https://www.lazorpoint.com/solutions) - [![chevron icon](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/Digifianz/Assets/Icons/Chevron%20right%20white.png) Managed IT Services ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/solutions/it-managed-services) - [![chevron icon](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hubfs/Digifianz/Assets/Icons/Chevron%20right%20white.png) Case Studies ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/it-case-studies) AI Fails Without the Foundation: A PE Playbook The AI budget is approved. 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Co-managed IT services is a flexible and cost-effective solution that can fill in the gaps, give you the expertise and resources you need without fully outsourcing or losing control over what is working well. Whether you want to boost your cybersecurity, gain strategic IT leadership or have 24/7 monitoring & remediation, co-managed IT can be the right approach to empower your team and your business.   ##### Co-Managed IT: Strengthening Your IT Through Partnership Co-managed IT services is a collaborative approach where your internal IT team works with an external Managed Service Provider (MSP) to strengthen specific areas traditionally handled by IT departments.  ##### How Co-Managed IT Works In this model, your internal team handles day-to-day IT operations, and the MSP provides a second set of hands and eyes, additional support and coverage, and expertise to pull from for specific projects or troubleshooting complex issues.   #### Services Overview ![collaborative work environment](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/collaborative%20work%20environment%20(1).webp?width=882&height=401&name=collaborative%20work%20environment%20(1).webp) - **Information Systems (IS) Management: **Overseeing and managing your entire IT infrastructure, hardware, software, networks and data to ensure it’s all running smoothly and aligned to business objectives.  - **Think and Run Leadership: **At its core, the MSP provides strategic guidance and leadership to ensure IT initiatives are aligned to business goals. At Lazorpoint, this is delivered to our clients through two main focus areas: - **Run:** Tactical sessions that are used to identify issues, address actions required by with Internal IT or Lazorpoint, review of day-to-day trends that may need to be investigated further to solve for root cause. This also includes establishing the technology framework for which IT policies, procedures, and standards will align to, and then the continuous work towards alignment of those set standards. - **Think: **Senior IT & cybersecurity leadership dedicated to the client. Here we get above the fray to bridge the technical alignment work executed in “Run” to the business. By intimately understanding our client’s goals and strategies, we create comprehensive roadmaps based on business impact. This results in quarterly and annual budgets & reports to ensure the leadership teams of our clients understand the level of investment required to solve for the challenges outlined.    - **Supplemental Resources: **The MSP fills in the gaps by providing expertise, tools and personnel your internal team may not have. - **Cybersecurity: **The MSP enhances your cybersecurity, advanced threat detection, response and ongoing security monitoring to protect your systems and data from cyber threats. - **Infrastructure Visibility: **The MSP monitors and manages your core IT infrastructure 24/7 especially during after-hours to minimize downtime and business disruption. - **Data Privacy Compliance: **The MSP helps you navigate data privacy regulations to ensure your company is compliant with relevant laws and industry standards. - **Budget and Roadmap Planning: **The MSP helps you manage your IT budget and plan for future technology needs and growth.  #### Co-Managed IT Benefits ![Improvement and productivity concept as it related to IT benefits](https://www.lazorpoint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/In%20Blog%20Images%201100%20x%20500/Improvement%20and%20productivity%20concept%20as%20it%20related%20%20to%20IT%20benefits.png?width=882&height=401&name=Improvement%20and%20productivity%20concept%20as%20it%20related%20%20to%20IT%20benefits.png) Co-managed IT is a customized flexible solution that empowers your IT department, boosts cybersecurity and runs smoothly and securely. With the right MSP partnership, you can unlock several key benefits: - **Scalability: **Scale your IT as you grow. - **Cost Savings: **Use external resources to optimize your IT budget. - **Focus:** Keep your internal team on core business tasks while the MSP handles the IT tasks.  Ready to take your IT capabilities to the next level? [Explore co-managed IT solutions today!](https://www.lazorpoint.com/talk-to-an-expert) RELATED CONTENT - [ 5 Reasons Why Internal IT Management Isn’t Enough ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/insights/bid/371219/5-reasons-why-internal-it-management-isn-t-enough) - [ Understanding How Managed Services Work ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/insights/what-are-managed-it-services) - [ IT Managed Services ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/solutions/it-managed-services) - [ The Pros and Cons of Outsourced & In-House IT ](https://www.lazorpoint.com/insights/prosandcons) *Hear it from those who know us best.* *Running a business is hard*. 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