Organizations that manage sensitive datasets need a partner who covers more than a single specialty. In this video, Laurie Delaney, Chief of Staff at Synapse Energy Economics, shares why her team relies on Magna5.
Magna5 helped formalize cybersecurity policy, protect NDA-bound data, and extend expertise beyond the in-house team. Urgent issues get immediate attention. Annual business reviews align projects, budgets, and the security roadmap.
The result is a stronger security posture, a right-sized tech stack, and money spent where it matters.
Laurie Delaney, Chief of Staff at Synapse Energy Economics:
“With Magna5, you get a range of expertise that you can’t just get in one person. It’s all about that: making sure you have a company that can span a lot of the challenges in the IT world.
“My name’s Laurie Delaney. I work at Synapse Energy Economics, and my title is Chief of Staff. I think the security aspects that Magna5 brings to the table, they help us develop a cyber security policy; making sure like we have the right security in place. We handle a lot of large data sets, some are really sensitive and we have NDAs in place for that data, and so we need to make sure that data’s protected. It’s been great getting more secure, especially in this day and age where [security is] just such a risk every day.
“I think Magna5 makes us feel like we’re their only customers sometimes. They make the space. I’ve never heard them say like, “yeah, we’ll address that next week.” If it’s feels like it’s something urgent, they pick up the phone and they call us and that’s really helpful, especially when we’re not feeling like we have the expertise in house.
“As we continue to grow, Magna5 can keep helping us kind of level up our security, which is always going be important. They do like an annual business review of like, okay, what does the relationship look like? What sort of projects do we wanna tackle next year? How do we wanna best use our budget? That sort of stuff. So it’s really helpful.
“Thinking through the best use of our money, the best use of our cybersecurity software, protection software servers, all these things, they all cost money and they help us kind of like think through what’s really needed and they help us get rid of things that aren’t.
“I would definitely recommend Magna5. What you want is somebody that cares enough to keep making it better, and I think that’s what Magna5 does. They listen to feedback, they hear your problems, and they try to address them and I think they’ll just continue to find new ways to support us.”
