Managed IT And Outsourced Security Operations For Bay Area Firms

Clare Computer Solutions is a managed service provider and managed security service provider based in San Ramon, California, serving small and mid-sized businesses across the San Francisco Bay Area and greater Northern California. Anthony Barone and Joseph Clare founded the firm in 1990 after leaving PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Cybersecurity sits alongside a wider practice covering managed IT support, network management, backup and disaster recovery, cloud services, Microsoft 365 administration, IT consulting, and more recent AI services.

The Cybersecurity Management and Alerting service functions as a security operations center for organizations that cannot staff one internally. Engagements start with asset discovery so the provider knows what it is defending, then move to continuous behavioral monitoring of client systems around the clock, with activity logged as it happens. Alerts are ranked by severity so analysts pursue the events that matter first, and the company builds an incident response plan with the client before anything goes wrong.

When an incident does occur, Clare Computer assists with containment and data recovery, and it carries compliance oversight through the engagement for clients in regulated sectors. The service is positioned as an alternative to building an in-house SOC, with the monitoring stack, analysts, and process supplied on subscription. Because it sits next to the firm's managed IT contracts, one provider covers both day-to-day operations and security monitoring, which avoids the handoffs that slow response between separate vendors.