Logicalis Acquires Maple Woods Enterprises For Advanced Cybersecurity

‘We acquired Maple Woods to immediately deepen our governance, risk, and compliance capabilities across multiple frameworks, and really to accelerate customer demand for continuous compliance. The timing reflects the regulatory pressure and our customers need for a single partner that can align risk, security, and compliance,’ says Jeff Wilms, Logicalis’ chief revenue officer.

The U.S. operations of U.K.-based global IT solutions and managed solutions provider Logicalis has acquired cybersecurity specialist Maple Woods Enterprises for an undisclosed sum.

With the acquisition, Logicalis gains access to Maple Woods’ Overwatch advanced cybersecurity and compliance technology, said Jeff Wilms, Logicalis’ chief revenue officer.

“We acquired Maple Woods to immediately deepen our governance, risk, and compliance capabilities across multiple frameworks, and really to accelerate customer demand for continuous compliance,” Wilms (pictured in above photo on left) told CRN. “The timing reflects the regulatory pressure and our customers need for a single partner that can align risk, security, and compliance.”

Logicalis U.S. is ranked No. 73 in CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500.

Rob Edwards, founder of Springfield, Ohio-based Maple Woods, told CRN that his company has been working with Logicalis for many years delivering cybersecurity-related services.

“It just became apparent that we were a great fit for what they were offering to their clients,” said Edwards (pictured in above photo on right). “It’s exactly the right time when we’re seeing frameworks like CMMC and a lot of AI questions coming around, those types of things. Having a continuous compliance program like Overwatch is the perfect fit for clients at Logicalis. We’ve built this practice. We’ve done all we can to perfect it.”

Maple Woods didn’t believe cybersecurity could be solved by accident, Edwards said.

“We think great cybersecurity is the result of disciplined implementation of tried-and-true frameworks,” he said. “We are the supporting function that allows our customers to innovate. And together with Logicalis, we’ve just done a tremendous job. I think if you talk to customers that we’ve supported together, they would tell you this is the best-in-class partnership, and now a best-in-class acquisition.”

Maple Woods’ Overwatch program is a comprehensive, three-phased approach designed to take the guesswork out of compliance and security. The three phases are benchmarking and assessment of a company’s initial security landscape, build the core components to remediate any issues, and continuous compliance.

“Overwatch fits really nicely within our portfolio, and strengthens our advisory assessment and program governance layers, which totally complement our managed security cloud and infrastructure services,” Wilms said.

When asked why Logicalis decided to acquire Maple Woods instead of continuing their existing partnership, Wilms said his company saw an acquisition as an opportunity to expand its scope with its clients.

“We had more clients looking for this type of service,” he said. “And the breadth and depth of the possibilities of what Overwatch brings with the multiple frameworks, we realized that we could take it across the majority of our clients and scale it a lot faster than we’re with the partnership as it is today.”

Maple Woods is already working on Overwatch 2.0, Edwards said.

“This includes leveraging a carefully vetted, authentic AI approach, making sure that we use the right products to help us increase speed and accuracy of evidence collection, documentation management, those types of things as we’re delivering our compliance services,” he said. “We’re looking to really make a mark, not just here at Logicalis, but within our customers’ environments.”

Maple Woods from the start wanted to make a really positive impact in the world, Edwards said.

“The idea of continuous compliance wasn’t as popular when we first started talking about it and thinking about it as it is now,” he said. “But as we’ve seen industry become more regulated, there’s a need for continuous compliance programs that are scalable, that are affordable, that get our customers not just through an audit, but instead in the right posture from a cybersecurity perspective. We saw that we were doing some great things as a smaller organization. Alongside Logicalis, we were able to grow a little bit. And we thought if we’re going to make a positive impact in the world, there’s no better place to do it a lot than at Logicalis on a much larger stage. And so it was a mutually advantageous transaction.”

Wilms and Edwards declined to discuss the financial terms of the acquisition. They also declined to discuss headcount, but Wilms did say Logicalis is bringing in a very strong, competent team with Maple Woods.

Prior to the acquisition, Logicalis did not have an office in the Springfield, Ohio area, but it did have personnel in Columbus, Ohio.

Logicalis plans to keep the Overwatch name for that platform, but the Maple Woods moniker will disappear, Wilms said.

The name Maple Woods comes from the fact that Edwards was living in an actual maple woods when he founded the company.

“So we just called it Maple Woods Enterprises,” Edwards said. “And away we went. Since then, it’s evolved to mean a lot more to the folks that we’ve served and the folks that work for us and with us. But yeah, it’s just humble beginnings in a maple woods where I used to tap the trees for maple syrup.”