Broward County, Florida
IT support and cybersecurity in Fort Lauderdale
Managed IT and cybersecurity for professional firms in Fort Lauderdale, from Las Olas law offices to the business parks at Cypress Creek.
Professional firms in Fort Lauderdale
Who we work with here
Fort Lauderdale is the seat of Broward County, and its downtown is built around the courts. The county courthouse and the federal courthouse sit within a few blocks of Las Olas Boulevard, surrounded by law firms, title companies and the accountants and advisers who work with them.
The city is also the center of the region's marine industry. Yacht brokers, marine insurers and the lawyers who document those sales handle large transactions between buyers and sellers who are often in different countries, mostly over email.
Law firms
Litigation, real estate and maritime practices clustered around the downtown courthouses.
Real estate and title firms
Title and closing firms across Broward, where escrow funds move by wire every day.
Insurance agencies
Agencies writing property and marine cover, holding policyholder records that state rules require them to protect.
Accounting and CPA firms
CPA and tax practices serving local businesses, covered by the FTC Safeguards Rule.
Local risks
What goes wrong for firms in Fort Lauderdale
The basics are the same everywhere. These are the problems that are sharper here.
Escrow and closing fraud
Whether the asset is a house or a yacht, the pattern is the same: a real deal, a real deadline, and an email with new bank details. Title firms, brokers and their lawyers are all targets.
Hurricane season
Downtown Fort Lauderdale and the neighborhoods along its canals flood in a serious storm. A firm that can only work from its office, on files stored in its office, stops when the office does.
Court deadlines
A litigation firm locked out of its files the week of a filing deadline has a problem that money can't fix afterward. Recovery time matters as much as recovery itself.
How it works
How we support firms in Fort Lauderdale
We're based in Miami Beach and cover Broward County from there. Most problems are fixed remotely. For anything that needs hands, we schedule an on-site visit.
Areas we cover
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale
- Las Olas
- Cypress Creek
- Plantation
- Hollywood
- Pompano Beach
- Davie
- Sunrise
- 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 Fort Lauderdale ask us
Do you have an office in Fort Lauderdale?
No. We're based in Miami Beach. Nearly all support is delivered remotely, with no waiting for someone to drive over, and we come to Fort Lauderdale for on-site work when it's needed.
How quickly could we be working again after ransomware?
It depends on what's in place beforehand. With backups an attacker can't reach and a tested restore, a small firm can usually be working again far sooner than one rebuilding from scratch. We set a recovery target with you during onboarding and test against it.
We handle escrow funds. What do you put in place?
Email security that flags impersonation, multi-factor authentication on every mailbox, monitoring for forwarding rules an intruder may have added, and a written call-back procedure for any change to payment details.
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