Built for firms that get examined.
Managed IT for Los Angeles advisory firms, RIAs, and accounting practices — retention and archiving that survives scrutiny, documented controls, and the wire fraud defences your clients assume you already have.
Designed around examination readiness.
Email, Teams, and chat captured into tamper-evident archives with search and export, so a document request is a query rather than a scramble.
Phishing-resistant MFA, mailbox rule alerting, and verbal verification procedures for any change to client payment instructions.
A documented programme covering access, encryption, incident response, and vendor oversight — the artifact examiners ask to see.
We provide our own control documentation, and help you assess and record the security posture of your other technology vendors.
Client financial data encrypted in transit and at rest, with data loss prevention rules that catch account numbers leaving by email.
A documented plan with defined roles and notification paths, aligned to the tightening disclosure expectations across the sector.
What examiners and clients look for.
Retention is not optional
Recordkeeping obligations differ by registration type, but all of them assume communications are retained, searchable, and produceable on request. Ad hoc mailbox archiving does not satisfy that.
Firms holding client money are targeted
Advisory and accounting firms sit on exactly the data attackers want, and move funds on client instruction. Business email compromise is the dominant loss event in the sector.
Vendor oversight is your responsibility
Regulators expect firms to assess and document the security of their service providers. That includes your IT provider, which is why ours is documented for you.
Tax and reporting season is a risk window
Volume, deadline pressure, and unusual requests all peak at once. That is precisely when social engineering succeeds.
Frequently asked questions.
Do you understand our regulatory obligations?
We work with the technical controls that regulatory obligations depend on — retention, archiving, access control, encryption, and incident response — and we document them so your compliance team or consultant can rely on them.
We are not a compliance consultancy and will not advise you on the scope of your obligations. We work alongside your compliance counsel to make sure the technology supports what they determine you need.
Can you archive Teams and mobile communications?
Yes. Microsoft 365 can capture Teams chat and channel messages into a retention framework alongside email, with legal hold and export.
Text messages on personal phones are the harder problem across the industry. The practical approaches are either a compliant messaging platform staff are required to use, or mobile application management that keeps business communication inside managed apps.
What is the biggest security risk for a firm like ours?
Business email compromise, by a considerable margin. It causes more direct financial loss in this sector than ransomware, and it uses no malware at all — just a stolen login and patience.
We wrote up how the attack actually works, and the controls that stop it, in our guide to business email compromise.
How do you handle our examination or audit requests?
We supply documentation of the controls we operate: configuration evidence, access reviews, patch compliance, backup verification, and incident logs.
Because the same control set is deployed consistently, this is a matter of producing existing records rather than constructing them in response to a request.
Do you support our portfolio management and CRM systems?
We support the infrastructure, identity, and connectivity those platforms depend on, and coordinate with the vendors on application-level issues.
For firms running anything on-premise, we treat server monitoring, patching, and backup as first-order concerns rather than an afterthought.