The Association, in partnership with VC3, provides technology services to cities and towns. Headquartered in Columbia, VC3 is a managed IT and cybersecurity services provider focused on serving municipalities. Serving more than 1,100 municipalities of all sizes, our South Carolina-based engineers are supported by a deep bench of national talent. Contact VC3 for more information.
VC3 provides the following services:
Manage and Protect
VC3 offers technology to drive efficiency and mitigate risk.
- Managed IT Services: Get 24/7 support for your staff and ongoing maintenance for your hardware, software, network, and backups.
- Co-Managed: Your internal IT team can focus on helping your employees with IT issues while VC3 handles routine backend tasks, supports your servers and networks, and gives you extra hands when needed.
VC3 includes foundational cybersecurity tools and solutions as part of its managed IT services. Supported by a 24/7 security team providing Managed Detection and Response (MDR), you get Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Microsoft 365 protection (MFA, monitoring, alerting, email protection, and backups), Security Awareness Training (SAT), dark web credential monitoring, and web content filtering.
Manage Add-Ons
- Managed VoIP: Cost-effective, fully supported, and modernized phone systems.
- Cloud Hosting: Securely host applications and data in a fully managed, fully compliant data center.
- Compliance as a Service: Regulatory requirements? VC3 ensures compliance with frameworks such as CJIS, SOC 2, and NIST.
Protect Add-Ons
For municipalities that require additional security, VC3 provides several cybersecurity tools and solutions as add-ons.
- Data Backup + Disaster Recovery: Minimize operational disruption and mitigate risk with onsite and offsite data backup solutions.
- SIEM/SOAR: Extend your capabilities to detect and respond to threats within your network while also meeting compliance requirements with advanced logging features.
- Device MFA: Confirm that every user and their device are trusted before allowing access to your network.
- Vulnerability Management: Continuously identify and mitigate the highest risks in your IT environment.
- Password Management: Smart security, simplified access, and reduced password fatigue.
Accelerate
- SharePoint: Drive simplicity, efficiency, and secure collaboration.
- Power BI: Use data and technology to increase efficiencies and achieve organizational goals.
- Web Design+ Hosting: Get an updated, user-friendly website.
- Application Development: Custom software applications and solutions to meet your specific needs.
Customized plans
VC3 can customize plans depending on the number of municipal employees and the size of the municipality’s technology infrastructure. This customization makes cybersecurity and technology services affordable for a municipality’s budget.