Miami-Dade County, Florida
IT support and cybersecurity in Coral Gables
Managed IT and cybersecurity for the law firms, accounting practices and advisers that fill Coral Gables' office streets.
Professional firms in Coral Gables
Who we work with here
Coral Gables has one of the highest concentrations of professional firms in South Florida. Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Alhambra Circle and the blocks around Miracle Mile are lined with law offices, CPA firms, wealth managers and consultancies, alongside the regional headquarters of many multinational companies.
A lot of the work here is international: tax and legal advice for clients with interests across Latin America, and corporate work for the multinationals nearby. Those larger clients increasingly send their outside firms a security questionnaire before they send the work.
Law firms
Corporate, tax and estate practices serving multinational and international clients who audit their outside counsel.
Accounting and CPA firms
CPA firms with international tax work, subject to the FTC Safeguards Rule and to client due diligence.
Financial advisers
Wealth managers and trust companies with high-net-worth clients here and abroad.
Consultancies
Consultancies working inside their clients' systems, where a breach at the consultant becomes the client's breach.
Local risks
What goes wrong for firms in Coral Gables
The basics are the same everywhere. These are the problems that are sharper here.
Client security questionnaires
Multinational clients ask their law firms, accountants and consultants to prove their security in writing. A firm that can't answer loses the engagement to one that can.
Impersonation of partners
Firms here publish their partners, their practice areas and often their clients. That is everything an attacker needs to write a convincing request in a partner's name, or to clone a voice from a recorded talk.
Tax-season targeting
Accounting and tax practices are hit hardest from January to April, with fake client emails carrying infected documents and requests for tax records.
How it works
How we support firms in Coral Gables
Coral Gables is a short drive from our base in Miami Beach. Most problems are fixed remotely, and we come on site for office moves, new equipment and anything that needs hands.
Areas we cover
- Downtown Coral Gables
- Ponce de Leon Boulevard
- Alhambra Circle
- Miracle Mile
- South Miami
- Coconut Grove
- Pinecrest
- Dadeland
- A help desk your staff can reach directly
- Monitoring and updates on every computer
- Protection that watches for ransomware
- Email security and phishing training
- Backup for computers and cloud files
- Insurance form and questionnaire support on our Secure plan
The rules
What Florida firms are expected to do
Florida Information Protection Act
Florida law requires businesses to take reasonable measures to protect personal information. After a breach, affected people must generally be told within 30 days, and a breach affecting 500 or more people in Florida must also be reported to the state Attorney General's office.
The Florida Bar
Florida lawyers must make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to client information. Florida was also the first state to require technology training as part of a lawyer's continuing education.
FTC Safeguards Rule
Tax preparers, accountants and many financial firms must keep a written information security program under federal rules, with specific controls such as multi-factor authentication and encryption.
General information, not legal advice. The rules that apply to your firm depend on the work you do and the data you hold.
Questions
What firms in Coral Gables ask us
A client sent us a security questionnaire. Can you help us answer it?
Yes. We supply the answers and the evidence behind them: which protections are in place, reports showing they're switched on, and the written policies clients ask for. Compliance reporting is part of our Secure plan.
Do you work with firms that have international clients?
Yes, many of our clients do. It mainly affects how sign-ins from abroad are handled and how payment instructions are verified, and we set both up as part of onboarding.
We already have an IT person. Can you work alongside them?
Yes. Some firms keep the person they trust for day-to-day requests and use us for monitoring, security tools and cover when that person is away.
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