Managed IT Services & IT Support in Newport Beach
North Blue Networks looks after the computers, network, phones and security for Newport Beach firms, practices and shops from our office in Orange, a short drive up the 55. Systems are watched around the clock, our own engineers answer the phone, and most problems are fixed remotely while your team keeps working.
- Our team has been in IT since 1996
- 10+ year average client tenure
- Systems watched around the clock
- Datacenter, telecom & hardware in-house
IT for Newport Beach, from Newport Center to the Peninsula
Newport Beach business comes in three shapes. Newport Center holds the towers around Fashion Island, where investment firms, law practices and corporate headquarters share floors with specialist medical and dental suites. The airport area along MacArthur, Jamboree and Von Karman is low-rise office parks full of CPA firms, advisers and professional services. Then there is the coast: the medical buildings along Superior Avenue and Old Newport Boulevard near Hoag, the small offices on Westcliff Drive, and the shops and galleries of Lido, the Balboa Peninsula, Mariners' Mile and Corona del Mar. Each one asks something different of its IT, and we have spent years learning what.
- Investment, wealth management and finance firms in the Newport Center towers
- Law firms and professional practices with confidential client files
- CPA firms, tax preparers and advisers in the airport-area office parks
- Surgical, imaging, dental and specialty practices along the Hoag corridor and in Newport Center
- Retail shops and galleries from Lido Marina Village to Corona del Mar
High-rise suites, building risers and the carriers you didn't choose
In Newport Center and the airport-area towers, your internet and your cabling run through risers the landlord controls, delivered by whichever carriers the building has let in. Lead times are long, options are few, and a single connection is a single point of failure for the whole firm. We plan around the building instead of hoping it cooperates.
A second connection on different equipment
Where the building has one fiber provider, we add a connection that doesn't share its path, often fixed wireless or a cable line, and set the firewall to switch over by itself when the main line drops.
Your suite walled off from the building
Building management systems, shared conference floors and other tenants stay outside your network. Your firewall marks the edge, and nothing on the other side of it can see your files.
Cabling that passes building rules
Our own Low Voltage team runs plenum-rated, labeled, tested cabling that meets the property's standards, and coordinates riser access with building management so a new office or a reconfigured floor isn't held up waiting on the property.
Wi-Fi that reaches the corner office
Glass, concrete cores and long floor plates eat wireless signal. We survey the floor before placing access points, so the partners' offices get the same signal as the open area.
Security for firms whose clients expect discretion
Newport Beach has an unusual concentration of businesses that hold other people's money, legal matters and medical records. The clients of those firms assume their information is protected, and increasingly ask for proof. We build the protection in and keep the proof current.
Finance and investment firms
Encryption on every device, multi-factor authentication (MFA) on every account, email filtering tuned for the wire-fraud and impersonation attempts aimed at advisers, and logs kept long enough to answer an examiner's question. We work alongside your compliance consultant rather than replacing them.
Law firms
Matter files restricted to the people on the matter, secure sharing with clients and opposing counsel that doesn't involve email attachments, and backups tested by restoring a file, not by reading a green report.
Surgical, imaging and specialty practices
HIPAA's security requirements explained in plain English, imaging traffic given priority on the network, and the risk assessment, access reviews and training records kept organized for whoever reviews them.
CPA firms and tax preparers
Under the FTC Safeguards Rule a firm needs a written information security plan, encryption, MFA and someone named as responsible for it. We put the technical controls in place, help write the plan, and keep both current as the season changes what the firm runs.
What managed IT covers for a Newport Beach business
One agreement, one number to call, and one team that already knows your office. These are the pieces most Newport Beach firms and practices need.
A helpdesk staffed by engineers
Your team calls or emails and reaches an engineer who knows the firm, not a ticket queue. If the office can't work, we aim to be on it within 15 minutes and guarantee a response inside the hour during business hours; after hours, the same team covers emergencies.
Partners who work from more than one place
Plenty of Newport Beach principals split time between the office, a home office and travel. Laptops are encrypted and managed wherever they are, remote access is secured with MFA, and the same person can be reached from any of them.
Updates, monitoring and backups that have been restored
Workstations and servers patched on a schedule you agree to, watched around the clock for the early signs of trouble, and backed up to copies we restore from regularly to prove they work.
Phones, cameras and point of sale from the same team
VoIP phones for the office, cameras on their own part of the network for the shop, and the Wi-Fi and wiring a storefront's payment terminals depend on, all looked after by the people who run the rest of your IT.
Salt air, summer traffic and the shop on the water
Businesses on the Peninsula, Balboa Island and along Mariners' Mile deal with things an inland office never thinks about. Equipment near the water corrodes, outdoor access points and cameras take a beating from salt and sun, and a summer afternoon can make a quick site visit anything but. We plan for all of it.
Hardware chosen for the coast
Outdoor-rated access points and cameras, sealed connectors, and network gear kept out of damp back rooms, with spares on hand for the pieces that fail most.
Fixed remotely first
Around 80% of problems are solved without a visit, which matters more when the visit means Newport Boulevard in July. When hands are needed, one of our own engineers comes, not a subcontractor.
Wi-Fi for guests that stays away from the register
Customer Wi-Fi on its own network, payment terminals on another, and the office computers on a third, so a free connection for guests never becomes a path to your sales data.
Who we're a good fit for in Newport Beach
Firms and practices from about 10 people up, and any Newport Beach business that holds confidential client, financial or medical information. If you're a two-person shop that just wants a number to call when something breaks, hourly support is probably the better deal, and we'll tell you that in the first conversation instead of signing you up for more than you need.
Related services and guides
- Managed IT across Orange CountyWhat a managed IT agreement covers, and how onboarding works.
- Healthcare IT support in Newport BeachFor surgical, orthopedic and imaging practices around Hoag and Newport Center.
- IT for accounting and tax firmsFTC Safeguards Rule, WISP and tax software support.
- Managed securityMFA, filtering, threat detection and our own security team on the alerts.
- Managed IT in IrvineThe other side of the airport: the Irvine Business Complex and the Spectrum.
- Response times by priorityWhat counts as critical, and how quickly we respond.
Frequently asked questions
Where is your office in relation to Newport Beach?
We're in a Newport Center tower. Can you work with the building?
We're a wealth management firm. Do you understand our compliance side?
Do you work with law firms?
Do you support surgical and imaging practices in Newport Beach?
Our shop is on the Peninsula. Is that too small for managed IT?
What's the first step for a Newport Beach firm?
Start with a free IT check-in
A relaxed, no-obligation call to learn about you and your business's technology goals and needs. No sales pitch.