The Forge: FyrTech's Proven Process
Five steps that take a raw environment and shape it for resilience. Every client comes out stronger.
The Process
The Five Steps
Assess, Secure, Stabilize, Optimize, Review. Every FyrTech client moves through the same sequence, shaped around the realities of their business.
Assess
Before we change anything, we look at what you have. Infrastructure, security posture, vendor contracts, support history, and how your team actually works day to day. Think of this as heating the raw material so we know what it's made of.
What Happens in This Step
- Full inventory of endpoints, servers, cloud tenants, and network gear
- Review of current support contracts, licensing, and renewal dates
- Security posture baseline covering identity, endpoints, backups, email, and perimeter
- Workflow interviews with owners and key staff so we understand how your business actually operates
Secure
Once we understand what's there, security comes first. Everything downstream depends on the foundation holding, so we harden identity, endpoints, backups, and email before we touch anything else.
What Happens in This Step
- Multi-factor authentication rolled out across critical systems
- Endpoint detection and response deployed on every managed device
- Encrypted, tested backups for your business-critical data
- Email and identity protection configured against phishing and token theft
- A documented incident response path so you know what happens if something goes wrong
Stabilize
With the foundation hardened, we shape reliable day-to-day operations. Patching, monitoring, ticketing, and documentation get structured so your team can work without surprises.
What Happens in This Step
- Patch management cadence running on a schedule your team agrees to
- Monitoring and alerting tuned to your plan tier, from business-hours coverage through 24/7 SOC
- Ticketing and escalation paths agreed with your team
- Runbooks written for the issues we've seen most often in your stack
- Standard operating documents handed to you directly so you own the institutional knowledge
Optimize
Now we make it resilient under pressure. Performance tuning, capacity planning, cost reviews, and workflow improvements. This is the tempering work that keeps everything steady when the business gets busy.
What Happens in This Step
- Infrastructure sized to match your real workloads
- Vendor contracts reviewed for overlap and overspend
- Automation added for repetitive tasks that waste your team's time
- Reporting built so you can see what's happening without asking us
- Quarterly technology planning sessions to line up investments with business goals
Review
Before anything is called done, it goes against the anvil. We validate every piece under real-world conditions, confirm the security controls are doing what they're supposed to do, and walk you through the results.
What Happens in This Step
- Restore tests that prove recovery works in your environment
- Tabletop exercise against a simulated incident, available at the Advanced and Comprehensive tiers
- Security posture re-scored against the baseline we started with
- Business reviews on at least an annual cadence, quarterly at the Advanced and Comprehensive tiers
- A written record of what was done, what was tested, and how it held up
Why The Forge
Why We Work This Way
Craftsmanship takes patience. Every client is handled individually. We shape the work around your business, harden security first, and validate it all against real conditions before anything goes into production.
The Forge is how we keep the In It With You Promise.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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Every FyrTech client starts in The Forge. Book a conversation and we'll walk you through what that looks like for your business.
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