Built for Organizations With More at Stake.
TorchLight is a managed IT and cybersecurity company built for organizations where downtime, cyber risk, compliance, and stakeholder trust have real consequences.
It Started With a Problem IT Should Have Already Solved.
In January 2007, Nolan Garrett founded Intrinium after seeing the same problem repeatedly across regulated organizations.
Leaders were often forced to choose between general-purpose IT providers that understood technology but not regulatory expectations, or specialized consultants who appeared when an audit, incident, or major problem was already underway. Neither model gave leadership the visibility, accountability, or proactive support they needed.
Intrinium was built around a different idea: managed IT , cybersecurity , compliance, and business operations should work together from the beginning. Risk management and defensible evidence should be part of how the environment operates, not projects that begin when an examination or incident is already approaching.
The goal was never simply to manage technology. It was to give leadership clarity, accountability, and fewer surprises.
The Company Didn’t Change. The Name Finally Caught Up.
In 2021, Intrinium became TorchLight.
The people, expertise, client relationships, and standards behind the company stayed the same. What changed was the name.
TorchLight better reflected the role the company had grown into: helping organizations see risk clearly, understand what matters, and make confident decisions across IT, cybersecurity, and compliance.
Clarity. Accountability. Visibility. That became the name as well as the standard.
Growth Through Expertise, Not Just Scale.
Growth followed the same principle the company started with: add capability where it made clients stronger. Each expansion brought new expertise, new relationships, and people who could help deliver security and compliance as operational outcomes, not afterthoughts.
Intrinium Founded
Nolan Garrett founded Intrinium around a security-first model built for organizations where technology, risk, and regulatory expectations had to work together.
Olympia Computer Central
The acquisition expanded the company’s capabilities and relationships across Washington, strengthening its ability to support organizations throughout the region.
Interlink Advantage
Interlink Advantage added Spokane-based expertise, longstanding client relationships, and additional regional depth to the growing organization.
Contineo
The addition of Contineo expanded the team, technical capabilities, and reach supporting organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Intrinium Becomes TorchLight
Intrinium became TorchLight, a name that better reflected the company’s role helping organizations bring clarity to IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and risk. The people, expertise, client relationships, and standards behind the company remained the same.
Each chapter added more than scale. It added people, expertise, relationships, and a clearer identity for the company TorchLight had become.
Built in the Environments Where IT is Regulated.
TorchLight’s approach was shaped inside organizations where technology decisions are examined by regulators, auditors, boards, executives, and the people those organizations serve.
Financial Services
Credit unions, banks, wealth management firms, family offices, and other financial organizations operate where cybersecurity, regulatory expectations, privacy, and stakeholder trust are inseparable.
Explore Credit UnionsGovernment & Public Sector
Public agencies and government organizations require technology environments built around accountability, continuity, defensible security practices, and the realities of public-sector operations.
Explore GovernmentHealthcare & Senior Services
Healthcare organizations operate where privacy, availability, resilience, and protection of sensitive information directly affect the people they serve.
Explore HealthcareHigher Education
Colleges and educational systems face complex security, privacy, ransomware, compliance, and technology challenges across environments with widely varying levels of technical maturity.
Explore Higher EducationOther Mission-Critical Organizations
Municipalities, manufacturing, retail, energy, and other organizations depend on technology where downtime, data exposure, or security incidents can create operational, financial, and reputational consequences far beyond an inconvenient help-desk ticket.
Explore All IndustriesWhat TorchLight Is Today.
Nearly two decades after Intrinium was founded, TorchLight has grown into an integrated managed IT, cybersecurity, and advisory partner for organizations that need technology to be secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with the business.
One partner. One operating model. Fewer gaps between the people responsible for technology, security, and risk.
The Operational Foundation
The environments TorchLight supports every day: infrastructure, cloud, Microsoft 365, help desk, lifecycle management, and the technology operations organizations depend on to stay productive and stable.
Continuous Protection & Visibility
Security operations designed to detect, protect, investigate, and strengthen the environment over time so risk is managed continuously instead of only when something goes wrong.
Strategy, Guidance, and Specialized Expertise
The leadership and specialized services around the technology: vCISO guidance, compliance support, assessments, penetration testing, remediation, and strategic planning for organizations that need more than day-to-day support.
The Technology Changes. The Standard Doesn’t.
Technology evolves. Threats change. Regulations move. The tools TorchLight uses today will not be the tools it uses ten years from now.
What should remain constant is the standard behind the work: understand the business, communicate clearly, take ownership, reduce unnecessary complexity, and help leadership make better decisions.
The goal is not to make IT more impressive. It is to make the organization stronger.
CISSP · CISA · CISM · CRISC
Backed by specialized technical, security, compliance, cloud, and infrastructure expertise across the TorchLight team.
Clarity Over Complexity
Technology should make important decisions easier to understand, not bury leadership beneath more noise, dashboards, and technical language.
Accountability Without Finger-Pointing
When something matters, somebody should own the outcome instead of passing responsibility between vendors, departments, and technical teams.
Security Should Support the Business
Strong security should reduce risk while helping the organization operate confidently, not become an obstacle to the people and mission it exists to protect.
Fewer Surprises
Leadership should understand what matters, what comes next, who owns it, and why long before a regulator, auditor, incident, or failure forces the conversation.