Independent IT Consulting · Est. Pacific & Global Remote

Enterprise-grade network & security engineering, right-sized for your business.

Garo Inc designs, builds, automates, and secures IT infrastructure for small, medium, and large organizations — with the same rigor applied to defense-grade networks, delivered at the scale you actually need.

7Deep practice areas
38+Compliance frameworks mapped
20+Years in infrastructure & security
3Business tiers served — SMB to enterprise
Practice Areas

Seven disciplines. One consultant who has built all of them.

Every practice below is backed by a full platform reference, validated lab build-outs, and compliance mapping — not slideware. Vendor-deep on Cisco, fluent in the open-source equivalents.

Network Automation & IaC

Infrastructure as code for the network: controller-driven intent, CI/CD pipelines, pre/post-change validation, and a real source of truth.

AnsibleTerraformNSOpyATSNETCONF/RESTCONF

Enterprise Infrastructure

Campus, branch, and WAN done properly — switching, routing, SD-WAN, and the management plane that keeps it observable and zero-trust ready.

CatalystSD-WANOSPF/BGPCatalyst Center

Security & Zero Trust

Firewalls, identity-based access, segmentation, endpoint and network analytics — architected as one system, mapped to the frameworks your auditors use.

Secure FirewallISEDuoUmbrellaXDR

Data Center & Cloud

Fabric, compute, SAN, and virtualization — from ACI and UCS to hybrid-cloud and AI-ready designs, with HA patterns that survive real failures.

ACI / NexusUCSVMwareKubernetesHybrid Cloud

Wireless & Mobility

Wi-Fi that holds up under load: RF design, controller architecture, secure onboarding, and assurance — for offices, campuses, and industrial floors.

Catalyst 9800MerakiWi-Fi 6E/7RF Design

Collaboration & UC

Voice, video, meetings, and contact center — cloud, on-prem, or hybrid — engineered for call quality, survivability, and sane dial plans.

WebexCUCMContact CenterSIP

Service Provider Networking

Carrier-grade routing, MPLS/segment routing, and peering architecture for ISPs, WISPs, and enterprises that operate like one.

IOS XRMPLS / SRBGP PeeringQoS

Compliance & Governance

Designs mapped to DoD/DISA STIGs, NIST, FIPS, CNSA, and Zero Trust — plus the 38-framework commercial catalog (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI).

STIG/SRGNIST 800-53SOC 2ISO 27001

Architecture References & Enablement

Deep platform references, interactive infographics, and lab build-out guides your team keeps after the engagement — training included, lock-in not.

DocumentationLab GuidesTeam Training
Engagement Models

Built for the size you are — and the size you're becoming.

Same engineering standards at every tier. What changes is the scope, the cadence, and how much of your IT function Garo Inc carries for you.

Small Business

Fractional IT Partner

For teams of 1–50 who need enterprise judgment without an enterprise headcount.

  • Your outsourced network & security engineer, on call
  • Office network, Wi-Fi, firewall, and VPN done right the first time
  • Cloud email, identity, and MFA rollout
  • Vendor selection and license right-sizing — no overselling
  • Documented handover: you own everything
Discuss a Fractional Plan
Large / Enterprise

Architecture & Automation at Scale

For enterprises, agencies, and providers where mistakes are expensive.

  • Multi-site, multi-domain architecture: DC, campus, WAN, cloud
  • NetDevOps operating model: NSO/Terraform/Ansible with CI/CD
  • DoD-grade hardening: STIG, CNSA, FIPS, Zero Trust alignment
  • HA and failure-domain design validated in lab before production
  • Staff augmentation beside your architects — knowledge transfer built in
Engage the Practice
How Engagements Run

A five-phase method that ends with your team in control.

PHASE 01

Assess

Inventory what exists, interview who runs it, and find the gap between the diagram and reality.

PHASE 02

Architect

Design to requirements and budget — with HA, security zones, and compliance mapped from day one.

PHASE 03

Validate

Prove the design in a lab build-out before it touches production. No first-time-in-prod changes.

PHASE 04

Implement

Staged cutovers with rollback plans, change windows respected, and every step documented.

PHASE 05

Automate & Handover

Codify the environment, train your team, and hand over docs, code, and credentials. You own it.

Sample Work Product

Judge the consultancy by its deliverables.

These interactive platform blueprints are excerpts from Garo Inc's reference program — the depth of documentation every engagement receives. Open any of them; they're the real thing.

Every engagement ships with documentation at this standard: platform references, HA designs, lab build-out guides, and compliance mappings — written to be used, not shelved.

Compliance Engineering

Built compliant, not retrofitted.

Garo Inc designs infrastructure with the control frameworks mapped into the architecture itself — the same discipline used on defense networks, applied to whatever audit you actually face.

Defense-grade baselines

DISA STIG/SRG hardening, NIST 800-53 controls, FIPS-validated crypto, and CNSA-aligned suites where required.

Zero Trust by architecture

Segmentation, identity-based access, and untrust/trust/DMZ zoning designed in — not bolted on after the pen test.

Audit-ready evidence

Designs mapped against a 38-framework commercial catalog, so your SOC 2 or ISO auditor gets answers, not shrugs.

Frameworks routinely mapped

NIST 800-53NIST CSFDISA STIG/SRGFIPS 140-3CNSA 2.0Zero Trust (800-207) SOC 2ISO 27001ISO 27017ISO 27018HIPAAPCI DSSCIS ControlsCMMCFedRAMPGDPRCCPANIST 800-171SOX ITGC+ 20 more in catalog
Why Garo Inc

One senior engineer. Zero hand-offs. Full accountability.

Garo Inc is a principal-led consultancy: the person who scopes your engagement is the person who architects it, builds it, and answers for it. Twenty-plus years across defense, service provider, and commercial infrastructure — currently operating multi-cluster Kubernetes, virtualization, identity, and coalition-network labs daily.

Lab-validated, alwaysEvery design is stood up and broken in a lab before it's proposed for your production.
Vendor-deep, vendor-neutralDeep Cisco expertise with an open-source mirror for every tier — you get the right tool, not the biggest quote.
Documentation as a deliverableReferences, runbooks, and diagrams your team actually uses after I leave.
No lock-in, by designEverything is codified, documented, and handed over. Repeat business is earned, not engineered.
# garo-inc / engagement pipeline
$ garo assess --client acme-mfg --scope network,security
214 devices inventoried · 3 failure domains found
$ garo architect --ha --zones untrust,trust,dmz
design v1.3 · mapped: NIST-800-53, SOC2, PCI
$ garo lab validate --topology acme-v1.3
47/47 pre-change tests passed (pyATS)
$ garo deploy --window sat-0200 --rollback armed
cutover complete · 0 unplanned outages
$ garo handover --docs --code --training
client owns the stack. engagement closed.
Start Here

Tell me what's breaking — or what you're building.

First consultation is a working session, not a sales call: bring your topology, your audit letter, or your growth plan, and leave with a concrete next step.

Email info@garoinc.com