Magna5: At the Helm of Driving Digital Transformation

What are some of the challenges enterprises face in the current business landscape, and how is Magna5 empowering enterprises to tackle them?

One of the significant pain points for organizations in the current business landscape is directly correlated to a major trend. If you look at the past year, global M&A activities have hit new highs, breaking all the earlier records. Consequently, organizations are expanding their IT operations and integrating new solutions to support the growing organizational structure and exponentially increasing end-users. However, this scale-up is happening against an ever-evolving cybersecurity and compliance backdrop. With the burgeoning volume and variety of organizational data, enterprises struggle to mitigate security risks and ensure compliance with corporate governance policies and litigations. This leads to costly operational and cybersecurity gaps in their services.

To help our clients bridge these technological gaps, we first conduct a baseline assessment from a technical perspective, which gives us a coherent picture of the clients’ IT systems and applications. Magna5 has best practices templates that help analyze how a client’s current operations are aligned with the highest industry standards. In addition, it is equally important to understand the organization’s business drivers. Are they trying to integrate the acquired company? Or are they going to partner with the acquired company, keeping it structurally separate and autonomous? After comprehending such operational requirements and organizational goals, we tailor our services to best suit them, allowing the organization to operate efficiently and consistently throughout its structure. Magna5 has also been adding former CIOs to its expert team to provide thought leadership to our clients on this front. Having been in that C-suite role in different organizations, their vast experience can be vital for organizations in their transitional journey.

Today’s businesses are leveraging Microsoft 365 premier cloud services to take advantage of its numerous benefits. How are Magna5’s Microsoft 365 managed services aiding the organizations in that regard?

We help our clients implement Microsoft 365 and manage it by offering maintenance and support services round the clock so that they can focus on their core business operations. The team at Magna5 also ensures that Microsoft’s service offerings are effectively lined up to cater to their specific requirements. Take the case of the latest cybersecurity updates in Microsoft 365 to mitigate the risk of dangerous phishing emails and potential malware attacks, for instance. Our team has been conducting several educational webinars and holding many discussions with our clients to help them understand how these new features could aid them in enhancing their security posture.

Another example is how we have been leveraging Microsoft’s Conditional Access policies to help clients in the wake of the remote work culture. By examining the business regions of the clients, we facilitated geo-blocking for them to prevent malicious logins from areas where they don’t have employees. We can also easily allow exceptions in that regard. Similarly, by offering additional security features like multi-factor authentication and educating the user base on the best ways to deploy them, we help companies optimize their operations according to any compliance requirements, be it payment card industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC), or service organization control 2 (Soc 2).

What makes Magna5 stand out from the competition?

We are a large organization with well over 100 employees, including experts in cybersecurity, data backup and recovery, and the cloud. Magna5 thus has access to abundant resources to cater to the client’s requirements. Simultaneously, we are also small and agile enough to provide our customers with the attention they need. We can go out there and swiftly make the changes with respect to how the landscape is evolving in the MSP, cybersecurity, or cloud space. Magna5 thus brings the best of both worlds. It is also worth mentioning that we are very fortunate to have an expert and forward-thinking team on that front who are focused on changing the industry dynamics and solving the ever-evolving challenges of the IT landscape. Adding to it is our 24/7 presence to remediate clients’ technical issues and support the end-users.

It is indeed these competencies that have enabled us to establish a diverse client base in even the heavily regulated sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare, and finance, which necessitate round-the-clock uptime requirements and stringent compliance measures.