About
IT advisory, done the way it should have been all along.
Mid-market companies deserve the same buying power, market intelligence, and negotiating leverage the Fortune 500 takes for granted.
Our belief
Advisors first, always.
Defender IT Consulting was founded on one belief: mid-market companies deserve the same buying power, market intelligence, and negotiating leverage the Fortune 500 takes for granted.
We are not a reseller with an advisory brochure. We are advisors first. Our recommendations come from research and benchmarks, not from whichever vendor pays the highest commission.
Gabe and Alana built the firm around a simple idea. Give companies an advisor on their side of the table, put everything in writing, and make the first project complimentary so there is no reason not to start. Compliance depth came first, across CMMC, NIST, and CIS, and the advisory practice grew out from there to cover every area of IT. That order matters. It is why our guidance connects security and compliance to the rest of your technology decisions instead of treating them as separate conversations.
Who You Work With
You are not hiring two people. You are hiring a bench.
Most advisory firms hand you one generalist and hope your project fits what they know. We built this differently.
Gabe and Alana lead every engagement personally. Behind them stands a bench of solution engineers, security architects, cloud specialists, and procurement analysts who get pulled onto your project when it needs them. Plant floor networking. Contact center migration. CMMC readiness. Azure cost work. Whoever joins your call has done that exact thing a hundred times.
The bench behind the engagement
- Solution engineers covering cloud and infrastructure, connectivity, collaboration and CX, managed services, and AI adoption
- Security specialists holding CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSK, and GSEC credentials
- 300+ suppliers already vetted, benchmarked, and under agreement
- Live pricing, fiber serviceability, and data center availability across the national carrier market
- Most quotes returned in hours, not weeks
The part nobody else does
Every supplier quotes differently, and they do it on purpose. Different terms, different units, different fine print buried on page eleven. Making those quotes truly comparable is the hardest work in procurement, and it is work the industry quietly skips.
We do it ourselves, on every engagement. Then we sit on your side of the table and negotiate the contract you actually sign.
Direct access, start to finish
The person you talk to is the person doing the work. There is no handoff to a junior associate after the first call, and no account manager relaying your questions to someone you never meet.
Gabe Haney
Cofounder
Gabe cofounded Defender IT Consulting after years in IT consulting and procurement, where he saw the same pattern repeatedly: mid-market companies signing technology contracts without anyone independent reading them first.
He leads supplier evaluation and negotiation. That means building the shortlist, normalizing quotes so they can be compared honestly, and negotiating the terms and pricing you sign.
Alana Haney
Cofounder
Alana is a CMMC Registered Practitioner, a credential for CMMC preparation and consulting work. Defender IT prepares clients for assessment and does not perform certification assessments.
She leads client engagements and compliance readiness work, guiding companies through CMMC, NIST, and CIS preparation and staying with the engagement from the first readiness check onward.
Ready to make IT decisions easy?
Book a call with a technology advisor. Thirty minutes. No pitch. You will leave with next steps whether you work with us or not.