About
A security-first provider for the systems your practice actually runs on.
Minnovate Networks is a remote managed security provider based in Elk River, Minnesota, working with dental practices and small businesses across the United States.
The company exists because of a gap that is easy to see once you have worked in enough practices. Large IT firms treat a six-operatory practice as a rounding error and staff it accordingly. The independent technician is often genuinely good but is one person with no monitoring, no documentation and no cover when they are on holiday. Neither arrangement produces an environment anyone would design on purpose.
The approach here is unglamorous and it works: find out what is actually there, write it down, put real controls on the three things attackers actually use, and then watch them properly. Most of what we do is preventing the call rather than answering it.
Being remote is deliberate, not a compromise. Everything worth doing to protect a practice is done through an agent or a cloud tenant, so a client three time zones away gets the same coverage as one down the road, and response is measured in minutes rather than drive time. On the rare occasion something genuinely needs hands in the room, we arrange and manage a vetted technician local to you rather than pretending distance does not exist.
How we operate
Four commitments we will be held to.
Documentation is a deliverable
Every environment we run is documented, and the documentation belongs to you. If you leave, you leave with everything another provider would need.
Prevention over response
A flat monthly fee means we carry the cost of things breaking. That aligns the incentives properly: we are paid to make sure you do not need to call.
No jargon in the room
You should be able to explain your own security posture to your team. If an explanation only makes sense to someone technical, it is our explanation that needs work.
Say the uncomfortable thing
If a backup has never been tested or a system is past end of life, you will hear it plainly, with what it would cost to fix and what it risks if you do not.
How we work
Four steps, in this order, every time.
Nobody should be asked to sign a monthly contract before they know what they have. The first step stands on its own, and you keep what it produces either way.
- 01
Assess
We map what actually exists: every device, every account, every licence, every place data lives, and where the gaps are. You get the documentation as a deliverable, and it is yours whether or not you hire us.
- 02
Deploy
Agents onto every machine, email security into your tenant, backup running and verified. Done remotely, in the background, without stopping the schedule.
- 03
Harden
Multi-factor everywhere, access cut back to what each role needs, mailbox rules reviewed, restores tested. Then it gets written down, so you can prove it.
- 04
Operate
Continuous monitoring with alerts triaged by us, patching on a schedule, and a quarterly review covering what we caught, what changed, and what needs budget.
Start with the assessment.
It is free, it is done remotely in about an hour, and it ends with a written picture of your environment and its risks that is yours to keep. No obligation and no contract attached.