Purchase is a hamlet of Harrison. It packs more corporate weight than almost any square mile in the New York suburbs. PepsiCo and Mastercard are based here. SUNY Purchase and Manhattanville University anchor the academic side. And the office parks along Westchester Avenue, long known as the Platinum Mile, fill in the rest. For Harrison and Purchase, this is our home zip code. For Armonk, we are the next exit up the interstate.
Around those big names sits the layer nobody writes about. The accounting practices, law offices, consultancies, and family businesses. They sit along Halstead Avenue in downtown Harrison and tucked into the corporate parks. Firms of ten to a hundred people. Their clients, and their security expectations, are shaped by the enterprise neighbors next door.
That is what an IT relationship here looks like. When your biggest client is a global headquarters down the road, their vendor-risk team sets your bar. A twelve-person firm gets a forty-page security questionnaire. “We have antivirus” is not an answer. Our cyber-insurance renewal checklist lays out the controls that questionnaire, and your insurer, will look for.