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Financial Services Technology Consulting

Security and compliance for firms whose clients trust them with their finances.

Financial tools and systems

What features should your Financial Services productivity applications have? The stack below is where we start, deployed, managed, and kept compliant for firms whose clients trust them with their finances.

Financial firms carry a double obligation: the systems must be reliable enough for month-end and audit season, and secure enough for the client data behind every engagement. That means access reviews that actually run, retention that matches your written policy rather than vendor defaults, tested restores instead of assumed ones, and the documentation trail your regulator and your cyber-liability carrier both expect to see. We build the stack to produce that evidence as a byproduct of normal operation, not as a scramble before an exam.

What financial firms run on

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Security

Network Security Deployment and Management · Firewalls · Network Switches · Wi-Fi and Wireless Access · Device Encryption · Data Encryption · Physical Device Security · Compliant Video Surveillance · Device Updates and Patching · Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware · Device Management

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Backup & productivity

Backup and Disaster Recovery (Local or Cloud) · Office 365 · Citrix ShareFile · Dropbox for Business · SharePoint · Productivity Tools · Cloud Services Management

03

Communications

Internet Service Provider (ISP) Relationship Management · VOIP Relationship Management · VPN · Multiple Locations

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Regulations & compliance

Industry regulations · Compliance Auditing · Acceptable Use Policies

Specific solutions for your field: Excel · Python · Quickbooks · Sage PeachTree

A quarterly check for financial firms

Verify access reviews ran and are documented. Confirm client-data retention matches your written policy. Test one restore. Re-run phishing training for anyone who joined this quarter. Your auditor will ask for exactly this.

Related: Backup & disaster recovery · The security guide · CIO consulting · Financial tools we manage

What managed IT means for a financial practice

Financial services run on trust, records and the tools your book lives in. We manage the environment for that reality: security and compliance posture aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, encrypted communication, access controlled by role, and audit evidence produced as a byproduct of normal operation rather than a scramble before an exam.

The tools stay yours: Excel, QuickBooks and the platforms your practice already runs, kept fast, integrated and secured. Start with CIO consulting for the strategy seat, or managed IT for the full practice.

Common questions

Can you help with compliance and examinations?

The environment produces audit evidence as a byproduct of normal operation: access logs, encrypted communications, retention and tested restores, aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and reviewed at strategic reviews.

Which financial tools do you support?

Excel, QuickBooks and the platforms your practice already runs. The tools stay the system of record; we keep them performing, integrated and secure.

How do we get started?

With the evaluate step: a review of your systems, access and compliance posture, then a plan sized to the practice. Book a complimentary consultation.

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