Your Internal IT Is Costing You More Than You Think.
For 50+ employee organizations, the cost of an internal IT team can run north of $620,000 a year once benefits, tools, training, and coverage gaps are counted. This one-page comparison shows you the exact math, and the co-managed alternative that delivers more for substantially less. Check out our co-managed IT cost comparison below.
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What You’ll See Inside the One-Pager
The seven cost line items most CFOs leave out when budgeting for internal IT. This includes the 35% benefits burden, specialized security tooling, and the 24/7/365 coverage gap. All of, which turn into compliance findings and cyber-insurance exclusions.
A side-by-side comparison of internal IT alone versus a co-managed engagement with TorchLight. (With hard dollar figures for a typical 50+ employee organization.)
The 5 proof points every CFO and CIO needs to validate the math: cost reduction, 24/7/365 SOC coverage, cyber-insurance discounts, executive hours recovered annually, and TorchLight’s 17 years of experience.
Why This Conversation Matters Right Now
Three forces are converging on every mid-market IT budget at once.
Talent is the most expensive line item, and it keeps climbing. Senior IT engineers and security analysts are harder to hire and more expensive to retain than they were five years ago. Most 50+ employee organizations cannot staff a complete IT and security function without paying premium salaries, eating six-figure recruiting fees, and burning weeks of leadership time on interviews. The fully-loaded cost of a four-person internal team, with benefits, training, and tooling, now exceeds the cost of most full-service co-managed engagements.
Cyber insurance carriers have moved the goalposts. Premiums are up. Exclusions are tighter. Renewals are now conditional on documented controls most internal IT teams cannot produce on demand: MFA enforcement, endpoint detection, vulnerability monitoring, documented incident response. Organizations that cannot demonstrate these controls face coverage gaps they may not discover until they file a claim.
Coverage gaps quietly become incidents. A four-person internal IT team cannot deliver true 24/7/365 monitoring. Nights, weekends, holidays, and vacations create windows for systems to be compromised for hours before anyone notices. The downstream cost of a single missed alert routinely dwarfs an entire annual IT budget.
The math has changed. Co-managed IT, where your internal team owns strategy and the day-to-day, and TorchLight delivers specialized security, 24/7 monitoring, compliance documentation, and the full security toolchain, now costs significantly less than going it alone.
Designed for CEOs, CIOs, compliance leaders, and boards. This guide helps answer one critical question before your next exam:
“Can we prove our controls are operating effectively today?”
Download the comparison to identify potential gaps before an examiner does.
Instant .pdf download: Download the TorchLight Cost Comparison One-Pager Here