Managed IT services and support for Ontario businesses.
IT support, security and infrastructure for Ontario businesses, run by the same team that does our incident and forensic work. The helpdesk and the incident line are staffed 24/7 at (289) 582-9930, for day-to-day requests and for ransomware, hacked mailboxes and suspected breaches.
$2M cyber liability insuranceSince 2018Expert witness work
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Managed IT services means one provider runs your IT under an ongoing agreement, quoted per month: a helpdesk your staff can reach, monitoring and patching of every device, Microsoft 365 administration, tested backups and security. IT Rapid Support Inc. has provided managed IT to Ontario businesses from 7810 Keele St in Concord, Vaughan, since 2018, with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Support is 24/7: day-to-day requests and ransomware, hacked mailboxes or suspected breaches all go to (289) 582-9930. A managed service provider holds access to many client systems, so the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns that a compromised provider exposes its clients too: check a provider’s own security before you hire one. The firm carries $2M in cyber liability insurance, and the same team handles incident and forensic work.
Managed IT services: how you can work with us.
Three ways to hand over IT, from overflow help for an in-house person to the whole function with security built in.
Fully managed IT
We run the whole function: helpdesk, monitoring and patching, Microsoft 365, backups with dated restore tests, and onboarding and offboarding.
Compare plansCo-managed IT
Your internal IT person keeps the day-to-day; we take security, backups, projects and overflow.
Co-managed ITManaged IT plus security
Adds enforced MFA, email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), phishing training and incident response, for law, accounting, health and financial firms.
Managed security
What we check first for every new client.
- 01Who holds the admin logins today. Global admin, domain registrar, firewall and backup console move into accounts you own, each with MFA.
- 02MFA on every Microsoft 365 or Google account.
- 03Email authentication on your domain. In our August 2026 study of 481 GTA business domains, only 20.6% enforced DMARC.
- 04A backup restore, tested and dated.
These follow the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s baseline controls for small and medium organizations.
Infrastructure we design and install.
Structured cabling
Cat 6A runs to each access point and desk, labelled at both ends, with a test report for every link.
Business Wi-Fi design
Access points placed from a survey of the real walls and racking, not a coverage radius.
Security cameras and access control
Cameras and door controllers on their own network, away from staff PCs and payment terminals.
Device procurement and setup
Laptops enrolled in management before they reach the user, so they arrive encrypted and patched.
Google Workspace management
Admin roles, MFA and sharing settings for firms that run on Google rather than Microsoft.
Facts you can check.
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In business since 2018; offices in Vaughan, Toronto and Vancouver.
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$2M cyber liability insurance.
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No published prices: quotes are built from users, devices, sites and security level. IT quote checker
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Published case studies include a Microsoft 365 clean-up, DKIM and DMARC for a Vaughan integrator, and breach forensics that led to an identity plan.
When a calibration lab’s ERP database went down, we traced it to a changed server network profile and had every workstation back that morning. Read the ERP outage case.
Where we work: IT support in Vaughan, Toronto (see managed IT services in Toronto), Mississauga, Richmond Hill, North York and all service areas. Day-to-day requests go to the IT helpdesk.
Managed IT services: common questions
What is the difference between IT services and managed services?
- IT services is the broad term for any technology work a business buys, including one-off projects and hourly break-fix repairs. Managed services are an ongoing agreement in which the provider is responsible for keeping your systems working: monitoring, patching, helpdesk, backups and security, quoted per month. Break-fix is billed after something fails; managed IT is paid to prevent the failure.
Is managed IT services the same as MSP?
- Yes, in practice. A managed service provider, or MSP, is the company that delivers managed IT services under an ongoing agreement; the two terms describe the same arrangement from the provider’s side and the service side. IT Rapid Support is an MSP that also runs incident response, digital forensics and penetration testing, so the same team handles a breach.
What is not included in managed services?
- It depends on the agreement, which is why scope should be written down before you sign. New hardware, software licences and large projects such as office moves or migrations are commonly quoted separately. At IT Rapid Support, terms are set out in writing before you commit, including what stays your responsibility and the exit terms.
One team across all four practices.
Cyber Forensics & Assurance
Incident response, digital forensics, penetration testing and independent attestation.
Privacy, Data Governance & AI
PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 readiness, data mapping, breach notification and AI governance.
Legal Technology
eDiscovery and forensic collection for counsel, expert-ready reports and legal-tech advisory for firms.
Want this handled for your business?
Tell us your users, devices and sites. We are staffed 24/7 and reply with next steps. Quotes are built from your environment, not a price list. Active incident? Call (289) 582-9930, 24/7.