ComTec Systems and Proactive Risk Partner to Deliver Secure, Cost-Efficient Communications and Cybersecurity for Growing Organizations

Joint go-to-market approach pairs communications and cost-reduction expertise with independent cybersecurity and risk governance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DENVILLE, N.J. and VINELAND, N.J. September 24, 2026: ComTec Systems, a provider of business communications and cost-reduction solutions serving more than 3,000 organizations nationwide, and Proactive Risk, Inc., an SDVOSB-certified cybersecurity and risk-management firm, today announced a collaborative go-to-market approach designed to help clients simplify, secure, and better govern their business technology.

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud communications, voice platforms, and digital collaboration tools, leadership teams face a growing challenge: ensuring those systems are not only reliable and cost-effective, but also secure, monitored, and defensible.

Communications and security decisions are frequently made in isolation: by different teams, on different timelines, and with different vendors, which creates blind spots, unmanaged risk, and unnecessary vendor sprawl. The collaboration brings those conversations together.

"ComTec has built a strong reputation for helping organizations improve communications and manage technology costs," said Mike Vertolli, CEO & President of ComTec Systems. "Working with Proactive Risk gives clients a clearer path to align those technology decisions with cybersecurity, risk, and accountability."

"Our relationship with ComTec brings together two practical disciplines that businesses increasingly need to manage as one," said Tom Brennan, Founder and Managing Director of Proactive Risk. "As an authorized reseller and regional partner, Proactive Risk can help connect ComTec's communications capabilities with the security and risk priorities that protect business operations."

By aligning telecommunications strategy with cybersecurity and risk governance, ComTec Systems and Proactive Risk help organizations close common gaps between connectivity, security, and accountability: supporting clearer ownership, fewer unmanaged systems, and better-informed technology decisions.

A Practical Approach to Technology Management

ComTec Systems helps organizations design, source, and manage voice, unified communications, contact center, and carrier services while reducing technology and utility costs and identifying available federal tax credits.

Through its business communications capabilities, ComTec supports organizations evaluating cloud voice, unified communications, contact center platforms, networking, and connectivity. Its cost-reduction services help clients review technology and operating expenses to identify opportunities for greater efficiency.

Proactive Risk helps organizations identify, manage, and reduce cyber risk through assessments, 24/7 managed detection and response, compliance alignment, and executive-level advisory services.

Its cybersecurity and risk-management services are designed to help business and government leaders understand the environments they are responsible for protecting, prioritize material risks, and align security decisions with operational and strategic objectives. Services include fractional cybersecurity leadership, managed security operations, compliance services, third-party risk management, and adversarial testing through CATSCAN®.

Together, the firms provide clients with a more complete technology foundation, where communications platforms are planned and procured with security, compliance, and resilience in mind, and where cost savings and risk reduction are pursued as one conversation rather than two.

This approach recognizes that communications systems are part of the operational environment. They support customer service, employee collaboration, business continuity, records management, and access to critical information. As a result, they should be considered alongside identity management, endpoint security, vendor oversight, incident response, and governance.

Who Benefits

The joint approach is designed for:

• Growing and mid-market organizations modernizing communications or consolidating vendors
• Regulated industries (including legal, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing) where communications systems carry compliance obligations
• Leadership teams seeking fewer gaps, clearer accountability, and stronger vendor governance
• Organizations evaluating technology spend against both cost and risk exposure

The collaboration is particularly relevant for organizations that are reassessing technology vendors, moving from legacy phone systems to cloud communications, expanding into new locations, or seeking better alignment among finance, operations, information technology, and cybersecurity leadership.

A coordinated approach can also support more informed conversations among executive stakeholders. Finance leaders may be focused on expense management and predictable operating costs. Operations leaders may prioritize reliability and business continuity. Technology leaders may be evaluating architecture, integration, and support. Cybersecurity and compliance leaders may be focused on access, monitoring, resilience, and accountability.

Bringing these perspectives into the same planning process can help organizations make decisions with a clearer understanding of both business value and risk considerations.

About ComTec Systems

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Vineland, N.J., ComTec Systems delivers business communications and cost-reduction solutions to more than 3,000 organizations across the United States.

Through ComTec Cloud, the company provides cloud voice, unified communications, contact center, and network connectivity solutions. Through ComTec Consulting, it helps organizations reduce telecom, cellular, and energy costs and capture available federal tax credits.

ComTec operates offices in Vineland and Fairfield, N.J.

Learn more at www.comtecsystems.net.

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About Proactive Risk

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Denville, N.J., Proactive Risk, Inc. is an SDVOSB-certified cybersecurity and risk-management firm serving clients nationwide.

The firm provides fractional CISO leadership, 24/7 managed detection and response, CATSCAN® adversarial security testing, third-party risk management, and compliance services for businesses, government agencies, and municipalities.

Founded by Tom Brennan, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Proactive Risk is an authorized reseller and regional partner of ComTec Systems, a New Jersey State contract holder, and a member of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce.

Learn more at www.proactiverisk.com.

Proactive Risk

Proactive Risk
Intelligence-Led Cybersecurity & Risk Management
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36 First Avenue, Suite 203
Denville, NJ 07834

(973) 298-1160
https://www.proactiverisk.com

Media Contact: Proactive Risk, Inc.

Tom Brennan, Founder and Managing Director
tomb@proactiverisk.com
(973) 298-1160

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