Big-bank discipline. Hometown commitment.
Elevate 716 was founded on a simple observation: the businesses that power Western New York deserve the same caliber of security and technology expertise as the world's largest institutions. They just shouldn't need a Fortune 500 budget to get it.
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Our story
Elevate 716 founder Michael McEvoy spent more than 20 years inside institutional banking, one of the most regulated, most targeted, most demanding technology environments in the world. He built and defended infrastructure where a single misstep meant regulatory findings, headline risk, and real harm to real customers. Examiners audited the work. Adversaries tested it daily. That environment doesn't tolerate shortcuts, and it teaches standards that never leave you.
Meanwhile, the manufacturers, medical practices, law firms, and family companies that are the backbone of the 716 face increasingly sophisticated threats with none of those resources. Ransomware doesn't check your headcount. Regulators and insurers keep raising the bar. And a full-time security or technology leader simply isn't in most SMB budgets.
Elevate 716 exists to close that gap. One accountable partner for security, systems, automation, AI, and the web, sized to what you need instead of a Fortune 500's budget. You pay for the expertise that moves the needle and not a dollar more.
Michael McEvoy
20+ years in Technology, Design, and Cybersecurity
Michael founded Elevate 716 to give Western New York businesses the same caliber of technology and security expertise usually reserved for the largest institutions. With more than 20 years of experience across technology, design, and cybersecurity, he has built, secured, and modernized systems where getting it right was never optional.
He started the firm on a straightforward belief: the 716 deserves that expertise too, delivered in plain English, right-sized to real budgets, and backed by someone who actually answers the phone. When you hire Elevate 716, Michael is not a salesperson handing you off after the contract is signed. He scopes every engagement, stays hands-on, and answers for the results. And when a project calls for more capacity, he draws on a trusted network of local cybersecurity professionals, without ever diluting who is accountable to you.
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What two decades inside banks actually builds
A few of the systems Michael designed and shipped during his career inside global financial institutions. Employers and clients stay unnamed; the work speaks for itself.
Treasury reconciliation engine
Automatically reconciled balances across many sources to derive the firm's treasury position: the deciding input for overnight investment decisions of more than a billion dollars a day.
IAM segregation-of-duties scanner
Screened every employee transfer across a large organization for high-risk access combinations, like operations staff moving to a trading desk, so permissions were reviewed before they became a problem.
Enterprise Salesforce security review
A full integration risk review for one of the world's largest financial enterprises: API endpoints, data classification, entitlements, revocation, encryption, and architecture, every risk documented and dispositioned.
Global case tracking platform
The central system a global enterprise used to open, document, and resolve every support case for a critical worldwide function, with the digital details captured automatically from surrounding systems.
Enterprise billing feed management
Centralized transactional data from product systems on wildly different technology stacks, feeding millions of dollars in billing fees into the systems where revenue is captured.
The point
This is the caliber of system your business gets access to. Not enterprise complexity, enterprise discipline, sized to fit.
The principles behind every engagement
Security is a business function
Not an IT problem, not a compliance checkbox. Done right, security protects revenue, wins customers, and lowers insurance premiums.
Right-sized beats gold-plated
The best control is the one your team will actually use. We scale bank-grade practices down to fit. We don't scale your budget up.
Plain English, always
If your leadership can't understand the risk, they can't manage it. We translate. We never obscure.
Vendor-neutral advice
We don't take commissions or resell products. Our only incentive is the recommendation that's right for you.
Long-term partnership
Security posture is built quarter over quarter, not in a one-time engagement. We measure ourselves on your trajectory.
Local first
When Western New York businesses thrive, the whole region rises. That's the elevation in Elevate 716.
Let's talk about your business
No pitch decks, no pressure. Just a conversation about where you are and where you want to be.
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