Broward County, Florida
IT support and cybersecurity in Weston
Managed IT and cybersecurity for the professional firms of Weston and western Broward, from Town Center offices to practices run from home.
Professional firms in Weston
Who we work with here
Weston is a planned city on the western edge of Broward County, where the suburbs meet the Everglades. It is home to Cleveland Clinic Florida and to the headquarters of the software company UKG, and around them sit a large number of small professional practices: accountants, financial advisers, insurance agencies, law offices and consultants.
Many of those firms are small by design. They work from suites near Weston Town Center and the office parks along I-75, or from a home office, and a good share of their clients are families and business owners with ties to Latin America. Few have anyone on staff whose job is IT.
Accounting and CPA firms
CPA and bookkeeping practices serving local families and business owners, covered by the FTC Safeguards Rule.
Financial advisers
Independent advisers and insurance-based planners with affluent clients, some of them living abroad.
Law firms
Small practices in immigration, real estate, family and business law, holding client funds and personal records.
Insurance agencies
Agencies holding policyholders' financial and health details.
Local risks
What goes wrong for firms in Weston
The basics are the same everywhere. These are the problems that are sharper here.
Work done from home
A practice run from a home office shares its network with family phones, televisions and smart devices. Client files deserve better separation than that, and it is simple to put in place.
Clients and money abroad
Firms that take instructions from clients in other countries, often by email or messaging app, are a natural target for fake payment requests. A request that can't easily be checked by phone is the kind criminals count on.
No one watching
A five-person office usually has no IT staff and a provider it calls only when something breaks. Updates lapse, backups go unchecked, and nobody notices until the day it matters.
How it works
How we support firms in Weston
We're based in Miami Beach and cover Broward County from there. Most problems are fixed remotely, which suits firms whose staff work from more than one place. For anything that needs hands, we schedule an on-site visit.
Areas we cover
- Weston Town Center
- Bonaventure
- Weston Hills
- Pembroke Pines
- Miramar
- Davie
- Southwest Ranches
- 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 Weston ask us
Do you have an office in Weston?
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 Weston for on-site work when it's needed.
I run my practice from home. Can you still look after it?
Yes. We protect each work computer and account directly, and can separate your work devices from the rest of the household network. Your clients' information gets the same protection it would in an office.
Some of our clients live abroad and send instructions by message. How do we stay safe?
With a rule and with tools. The rule: any new or changed payment instruction is confirmed by calling a number you already hold, whatever channel it arrived on. The tools: email security that flags impersonation, and multi-factor authentication on every account.
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