IT Support for Professional Services Firms
Email, documents, and client records handled properly, for firms whose reputation is the product.
Accounting, insurance, real estate, and auto service businesses are all in the book. What they share is that the damage from an IT failure is rarely the downtime. It’s a client finding out, which is a different and longer-lasting cost.
What we see in professional services
Email is the front door and the weak point
Client instructions, invoices, and documents all move by email. It’s also where the money-moving fraud in these sectors happens, almost always through a compromised or convincingly spoofed mailbox.
Documents in five places
Some on a server, some in OneDrive or Drive, some on someone's laptop, some still in a folder nobody has permission to open. Finding a file becomes a task and controlling who can see it becomes impossible.
Busy seasons have no slack
In accounting and insurance the calendar isn’t negotiable. An outage in the wrong fortnight is worth far more than the same outage in a quiet month, which changes how much redundancy is justified.
Client data with a long tail
Records have to be produced years later. That is a retention and backup question long before it is a storage one.
Invoice and payment fraud
The realistic threat to a professional services firm isn’t ransomware, it’s somebody intercepting or spoofing an email about money. Multi-factor authentication on every mailbox, correct SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records so your domain can’t be trivially spoofed, and a verbal-verification habit for changed payment details prevent nearly all of it. None of that’s expensive.
What we do for you
- Cloud & Microsoft 365Email, files, and identity set up properly, including the security settings a default tenant does not switch on for you.
- CybersecuritySegmentation, firewalls, and secure remote access, configured by people who have spent their careers inside networks that couldn’t go down.
- Backup & Disaster RecoveryBackups that have been restored from, not just configured, including the Microsoft 365 and Google data most businesses assume is already covered.
- Managed IT & HelpdeskMonitoring, patching, and support for everything you run, so problems get found before they become your morning.
Businesses like yours
- Accounting and bookkeeping practices
- Insurance agencies
- Real estate and property firms
- Small legal practices
- Auto service and repair businesses
- Consultancies and agencies
Questions from this sector
The ones we get asked most by professional services businesses.
How do we stop someone spoofing our email to our clients?
Three DNS records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) configured correctly. They tell receiving mail servers which systems are allowed to send as your domain, and a strict DMARC policy tells them to reject anything else. Most small firms have these missing, incomplete, or set to a policy that does not block anything. It’s a configuration job, not a purchase.
Is a shared drive on a server still a reasonable way to keep documents?
It can be, but it’s usually the reason nobody is sure who can see what. Moving to SharePoint or Google Drive with permissions set by role makes access auditable and removes the file server as a single point of failure. Provided it is backed up independently, because the cloud copy alone isn’t a backup.
We’re small. Are we really a target?
Not a target so much as an opportunity. Most attacks on firms this size are opportunistic rather than aimed, automated attempts against exposed services and credentials, and fraud attempts against anyone whose email can be spoofed. That’s good news, because opportunistic attacks are stopped by ordinary controls: MFA, patching, tested backups, and correct mail records. Serving Moncks Corner and the wider Lowcountry, that’s most of what we set up.
We already know your industry’s headaches
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