Firmenda

Managed IT infrastructure

One platform. Three ways to run it.

Servers, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 security, licensing, live monitoring, network, backups and CIS Level 1 — in one place. Hand it to us, keep it yourself, or share the work. The platform does not care which; you can change your mind later.

How it works

Choose how much you want to do yourself

Most tools decide this for you: either an agency runs everything behind a curtain, or you get a console and good luck. Firmenda is built for all three, on the same data, with the same screens.

We manage it

Full service. We patch, monitor, harden and report; you read the summary and approve the things that need a decision.

Fits when IT is not your day job.

Most chosen

Together

You do the work you know and enjoy. We pick up the rest, and everything either of us touches is visible to both — no handover meetings.

Fits when you have one IT person and no back-up.

You manage it

Same platform, your hands on the controls. Simple enough to run without a course, with us on standby for the weeks that get busy.

Fits when you have a capable internal team.

Everything in one place

Twelve jobs, one console

Every one of these usually comes with its own portal, its own login and its own version of the truth. Here they sit next to each other and refer to the same servers, the same people and the same licences.

01

Live monitoring

Servers, virtual machines, switches, access points and the gateway, grouped by building and room. The page updates itself, flags every change as it happens, and a single click checks everything again right now instead of at the next interval.

02

Servers & Windows Update

Updates staged in advance and installed in the maintenance window you set, per group of servers. Hyper-V hosts shut their machines down in order, patch, restart and bring everything back up. Disk space, hardware and uptime history alongside.

03

Microsoft 365 security

Secure Score with a 30-day trend, CIS Microsoft 365 Level 1 and 2, and every open improvement with its impact and a plain-language guide. The Firmenda standard baseline is pushed to your tenant with one click, exceptions per organisation respected.

04

Active Directory

Accounts, groups, group policy, domain controllers, replication and the stale objects nobody dares to delete. Reported daily, with dates.

05

CIS Level 1 hardening

Windows Server hardening measured every day and applied through group policy in phases, with a management whitelist built in so a stricter firewall never locks anyone out. The gap is visible the day it appears, not the week before the audit.

06

Licence management

What you pay for against what is actually used, with a monthly overview in your mailbox. Usually the fastest money you will save all year.

07

Workstations

Every device from Active Directory, Intune and Defender in one list: who uses it, how old it is, whether it is compliant and whether protection is actually running.

08

Network

Switches, access points, ports, clients and topology from your network controller. Firewall reports, an exposure scan of what is reachable from outside, and IP address and DNS management with a CIS check on your DNS.

09

Backups

Every backup job checked daily: succeeded, warned or failed, with the last good restore point. A failed job can be restarted from the portal.

10

Virtualisation

Hyper-V hosts, virtual machines and replication in one view. A new Windows or Ubuntu server is rolled out from the portal in under ten minutes.

11

Microsoft 365 storage

SharePoint and OneDrive growth per site and per person, so you see the storage bill coming before Microsoft sends it.

12

Self-service control panel

Connect your Microsoft 365 tenant in a browser click, grant us elevated access for a fixed number of hours, choose your reports and see live what every run is doing.

 

And what comes next

Monthly reports your director can read and the Firmenda Collector for sites that prefer outbound-only connections are live with the first customers. Intune baselines for workstations are next.

Recently added

What changed this quarter

The platform is the one we run our own customers on, so it moves every week. These are the additions customers will notice first.

September 2026

Monitor: live, by building and room

A PRTG-style overview of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Red the second something drops, without refreshing, and a "Check now" button when you do not want to wait.

September 2026

Firmenda standard for Microsoft 365

One baseline of Secure Score and CIS Level 1 settings, previewed first and then pushed to the tenant in one go. Exceptions per organisation stay respected.

September 2026

Secure Score, explained

Every open improvement with its points, impact and a guide in plain language, plus a 30-day trend so you can see the score move after a change.

September 2026

Hardening with a safety net

The CIS firewall rules now carry a management whitelist and a fallback for remote desktop and ping, so a hardened server always stays reachable for support.

August 2026

Firmenda Collector

An optional small collector at your site that gathers locally and only pushes outbound. No inbound rules, signed modules, and the same portal.

September 2026

Windows Update with maintenance windows

Updates are downloaded in advance and installed in the window you choose, per server group, with Hyper-V hosts orchestrating their own virtual machines.

The name

A keystone, not a shield

Firmenda comes from firmare — to make firm, to strengthen. The image behind it is a keystone: the wedge-shaped stone at the top of an arch that holds the whole thing in place. Take it out and the arch collapses.

That is what one management platform does with a dozen separate tools. Each of them is useful on its own. Stacked next to each other, with nothing holding them in position, they are a pile of stones.

How the name was made

We wrote the requirements before we wrote the name. The .com had to be free for the price of a coffee. It had to survive being said out loud in English without anyone asking how to spell it. And it had to stand well clear of the compliance-tooling crowd.

Every English word we liked was already taken — Plinth, Benchpoint, Trueground, Statelayer — and so was every Latin word you can look up in a dictionary. So we stopped hunting for a word and built one, out of two stems that describe the work itself.

firmare

to make firm · to strengthen · to make certain

Establish what is actually out there, measured against a baseline instead of against memory.

emendare

to remove the fault · to correct

Clear the deviations one by one, until there is nothing left on the list that shouldn't be there.

Then Latin handed us something we had not planned. The ending -nda is the gerundive: that which must be done. Emendanda — the things that must be corrected.

So Firmenda reads as the things that must be made firm.

Which is precisely what you get handed at the end of a run. Not a report that says how you did. A list of what is still to be done.

Why Firmenda

Built by people who run this every day

Firmenda is not a product someone designed in a workshop. It is the platform we use to manage our own customers, opened up.

Nothing installed on your servers

No agent to roll out, patch and eventually forget. We reach your systems over the channels that are already there. Prefer outbound-only? One small collector at your site does the gathering and nothing of ours touches the servers.

Live, not last night

Monitoring pages update themselves, every run shows its progress while it runs, and a check you want now happens now.

One truth, not five dashboards

A server is one server, whether you are looking at its patches, its disks, its licences, its backup or its place in the network.

Evidence, not opinions

Every check carries a timestamp and a source. When an auditor asks how you know, there is an answer instead of a screenshot.

Hardening you can undo

Every group policy change is backed up before it is made and rolled out in phases, with a management whitelist that keeps support access open whatever the baseline says.

Change your mind for free

Move from managed to co-managed and back without a migration. It is the same platform; only who clicks changes.

Plain language

Reports your director can read without a translator, and detail underneath for the person who has to fix it.

Your data stays yours

Hosted in the Netherlands. You can export what we hold about you, and take it with you if you leave.

See it on your own estate

A demo takes half an hour and we use your situation, not a sandbox. You will know within a week what it would find.