An IT consultation with ANC Systems is not a surface-level review or a sales conversation dressed up as an assessment. It is a rigorous, professional engagement that examines your technology environment in depth — your network, your servers, your security posture, your backup capability, your cloud tools, and your vendor relationships — and produces written findings and a prioritized roadmap you can act on.
We take the time required to do it properly. For businesses in Naperville, IL and across Chicagoland, that means showing up at your location, working through your environment systematically, and delivering conclusions that are specific to your actual situation — not a generic report with your company name inserted at the top.
We assess what we can only see from inside your environment: the unknown devices, the failed backups that show green, the server room with the unlocked door, the access point running 2019 firmware.
You receive documented findings, a risk assessment, and a prioritized set of recommendations — all written in plain language, scoped and priced so you know exactly what needs to happen and what it costs.
The technicians who assess your environment are the same people who would manage it as an ongoing client. What we find during the assessment becomes the baseline for everything that follows.
We offer a specific, scoped cybersecurity and network assessment as a standalone product — flat-fee at $499, with a risk-free guarantee. If cybersecurity and network risk are your primary concern, that page has full details on exactly what's included.
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(847) 250-0003 Mon – Fri, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT · A real person answersANC Systems offers two distinct assessment products for businesses throughout Naperville and Chicagoland. Understanding the difference helps you book the right engagement for your situation — and ensures you receive the findings that are most useful to your specific goals.
Best for: businesses that want a broad, strategic assessment covering all aspects of their technology environment — not just security and network.
Best for: businesses with a specific cybersecurity and network risk concern — compliance audit prep, post-incident review, or wanting to know their security score.
See full details & book onlineWe describe this process in detail because an IT consultation is a serious investment of your time and money. You should know exactly what you're committing to before the engagement begins. No surprises — in either direction.
A real member of our team contacts you within one business day of your form submission. This initial conversation is about understanding your business, your environment, your concerns, and the scope of what you need reviewed. We use this conversation to define the engagement, set expectations on both sides, and confirm the cost and timeline before any work begins. This conversation costs you nothing.
A certified ANC Systems technician arrives at your Naperville or Chicagoland location and conducts a thorough evaluation of your IT environment. This is not a quick walkthrough — it is an exhaustive, systematic process that examines every relevant layer of your infrastructure. The time required reflects the seriousness of the work, not an inefficient process. We take the time we need to find what matters.
Following the on-site assessment, we analyze our findings, research specific vulnerabilities and risks identified during the evaluation, and develop a written report. This work happens off-site — it is the professional work product that transforms raw observations into documented findings, risk-ranked recommendations, and a prioritized roadmap with specific action steps and cost context.
We deliver the written report and schedule a review session to walk through the findings, answer your questions, and ensure you understand every recommendation and its business implication. At this point, you decide how to proceed — whether that means engaging ANC Systems for remediation work, directing another provider, or simply having the information you needed. The decision is entirely yours.
The scope of each engagement is defined during the scoping conversation. Depending on your specific situation and priorities, the assessment can cover any or all of the following areas. Every finding from each area is documented and included in the written report.
Network architecture, routing, switching, firewall configuration, WiFi, WAN connectivity, and failover capability. Device inventory and unknown device identification. Performance bottleneck analysis and capacity constraints.
Physical and virtual servers, operating system lifecycle, patch status, Active Directory configuration, performance metrics, hardware age and end-of-life timeline, and capacity planning for current and projected workloads.
Endpoint protection status, email security configuration, MFA enforcement, identity and access controls, security patch compliance, network segmentation, and alignment to applicable security frameworks (NIST, CIS Controls).
What is backed up, how frequently, where it is stored, whether backups are isolated from ransomware, whether restoration has been tested, and whether your current configuration meets your actual RTO and RPO requirements.
Microsoft 365 security configuration, license utilization, Teams and SharePoint deployment, Azure or hybrid infrastructure, identity management (Entra ID), device compliance, and cloud cost optimization opportunities.
Technical control gaps relative to HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FTC Safeguards, NIST, or other applicable frameworks — with specific control mapping, documented deficiencies, and a prioritized remediation roadmap for audit readiness.
Software subscription audit (active, redundant, unused), hardware lifecycle and replacement forecasting, vendor contract review, and an assessment of whether your current IT spending is producing proportional value for your business.
A multi-year technology plan connecting your business goals to specific IT investments, timelines, and decisions — with budget projections, hardware replacement schedule, and a prioritized initiative list with business justification for each.
After 15+ years of managing IT environments for Naperville and Chicagoland businesses, we know the gaps that appear most frequently, the configurations that look correct but aren't, and the failure modes that only reveal themselves to someone who has seen them before. Pattern recognition built on a decade and a half of real environments is not something a checklist or automated tool can replicate.
The written report produced by the ANC Systems IT consultation is specific to your actual environment, your actual risks, and your actual business situation. It does not contain generic recommendations that apply to any business of your size. Every finding is documented with the specific evidence that supports it, and every recommendation is scoped to your specific circumstances.
ANC Systems is headquartered in Naperville, IL. We conduct our assessments in person at your location — because the most important findings in any IT environment are the ones that are only visible from inside your building. A remote scan misses the server room with the unlocked door, the rogue access point in the break room, and the backup NAS that has been physically disconnected for six months while the monitoring dashboard still shows green.
At ANC Systems, there is no separation between a "sales assessment team" and an "operations team." The certified technicians who conduct your assessment are the same people who would manage your IT as an ongoing client. What they find during the assessment becomes the baseline for the relationship — which means they have every reason to find the truth, not to find what makes the pitch easier.
The on-site assessment component of the IT consultation takes well over 90 minutes — and often significantly longer for environments with multiple servers, complex network configurations, or broad scope. An exhaustive review of your network infrastructure, server environment, security posture, backup capability, cloud configuration, and IT spending cannot be meaningfully accomplished in an hour. We take the time the work requires. The initial scoping conversation (complimentary) takes 20 to 30 minutes and determines the scope and estimated time for the assessment itself. We provide a realistic time estimate before scheduling the on-site visit so you can plan accordingly.
No. The IT consultation is a paid professional service. The initial scoping conversation — where we discuss your situation, define the scope of the engagement, and confirm pricing — is complimentary. The engagement itself, including the on-site assessment, findings analysis, report development, and review session, is a paid professional engagement. Pricing is agreed upon and documented before any work begins. If you are looking for a specific, standardized cybersecurity and network assessment at a fixed price, our $499 Security & Network Risk Assessment may be what you need — that product has a defined scope, a fixed price, and a risk-free guarantee.
The $499 Security & Network Risk Assessment is a specific, standardized product focused on cybersecurity and network risk — with a defined scope, a fixed price, and a consistent deliverable set. It is the right engagement for businesses that primarily need to understand their security posture. The IT Consultation is a broader professional engagement that can cover your complete technology environment — infrastructure, cloud, backup, vendor relationships, compliance, spending, and long-term strategy — scoped and priced based on your specific situation. Both involve significant time on-site. Both are thorough, professional, paid engagements. The right choice depends on how broad your assessment needs to be.
The cost of the IT consultation is determined by the scope of the engagement — which is defined during the initial complimentary scoping conversation before any work begins. A narrower assessment (one specific area of concern in a small environment) costs less than a comprehensive review of a complex, multi-server environment across multiple coverage areas. We provide a specific cost figure, agreed upon by both parties, before scheduling the on-site visit. There are no surprise charges after the fact. For businesses looking for a specific price upfront, the $499 Security & Network Risk Assessment is our fixed-price product — scope defined, price fixed, guarantee included.
No. The written report, the findings, and all recommendations are yours to use as you see fit. Some businesses use the report to direct their existing IT vendor to address the findings. Some use it to evaluate multiple remediation options from different providers. Some move their IT relationship to ANC Systems. All of those outcomes are acceptable. We conduct the assessment to produce findings that are accurate and useful — not to produce a document that makes our specific services the only logical next step. If a different provider or approach is genuinely better for your situation, we will tell you that.
ANC Systems conducts IT consultations for small and mid-sized businesses — typically companies with 5 to 150 employees — throughout Naperville, IL and the greater Chicagoland area, including Aurora, Bolingbrook, Lisle, Downers Grove, Wheaton, Woodridge, Oak Brook, Schaumburg, Lombard, Elmhurst, Joliet, Romeoville, Plainfield, and surrounding communities across DuPage, Will, Kane, and Cook counties. All assessments include an on-site component at your location. For businesses outside our standard service area, contact us to discuss what can be accommodated.