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Professional Services

Consulting, advisory, agency, and engineering firms β€” billable-hour reliability with the security posture your clients audit you on.

Tailored IT security solutions for consulting, advisory, and professional service firms handling sensitive client information.

SOC2GDPR

Consulting, advisory, agency, and engineering firms across Vancouver, Toronto, Miami, Orlando, and LA β€” plus their remote-first sub-teams in any geography.

1 hourTypical client security questionnaire turnaround (down from 5-15)
9 wksMedian first-time SOC 2 Type II for a 50-200 person professional services firm
ZeroLost-laptop incidents that became data incidents (full-disk encryption + remote wipe enforced)
What you can count on

93% of tickets touched within 15 minutes. 100% of after-hours messages acknowledged the same business day. Every engagement staffed by a named senior engineer.

What we see in professional services

Pain you're probably already feeling.

Your clients audit your security before they audit your work product.

Big-4 consultants, advisory firms, and creative agencies routinely receive client security questionnaires that take weeks to answer. Most firms we audit are losing 5-15 hours per questionnaire on the first response. We pre-stage the answers so it's a 1-hour turnaround.

Mobile-first work means your data is in 200 hotel Wi-Fi sessions a year.

Consultants, advisors, and partners work on planes, in client offices, in coffee shops. Standard MDM + zero-trust networking + endpoint encryption + remote-wipe shrink the attack surface dramatically. Most firms we audit have one of these four; we ship all four.

Project SharePoint sites are full of client confidential data with broken access lists.

The 2019 engagement is still accessible to the analyst who left in 2020. The current engagement is shared with "everyone in the firm." The next engagement will have the same problem unless you fix the pattern, not the symptom. We do that.

What we install on day one.

Phishing Simulation & Training

Realistic phishing tests and employee education

Included
Email & Communication SecurityTrainingSecurity

Why this matters for professional

  • Employee susceptibility to phishing attacks
  • Lack of security awareness training
  • Difficulty measuring security awareness
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Secure Business Messaging

Encrypted instant messaging and file sharing

Included
Email & Communication SecurityMessagingEncryption

Why this matters for professional

  • Insecure business communications
  • File sharing security risks
  • Compliance in messaging platforms
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Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Comprehensive mobile security and device management

Included
Endpoint & Device SecurityMDMMobile Security

Why this matters for professional

  • Mobile device security risks
  • BYOD policy enforcement
  • App management and security
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Business Continuity Planning

Comprehensive business continuity and crisis management

Included
Business Continuity & BackupBusiness ContinuityCrisis Management

Why this matters for professional

  • Business disruption risks
  • Lack of continuity planning
  • Regulatory compliance requirements
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Compliance Management

Comprehensive regulatory compliance automation

Included
Compliance & Risk ManagementComplianceRegulatory

Why this matters for professional

  • Complex compliance requirements
  • Manual compliance processes
  • Audit preparation challenges
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Compliance, line by line

What each framework actually asks for β€” and what we do about it.

SOC 2 Type II (advisory + outsourced services)

What it requires

Evidence of operating controls over Security + Confidentiality + Availability across a 6-12 month observation window.

How we help

Vanta or Drata + our control implementation + auditor relationships. First-time at 9 weeks readiness + 6 months observation + 4 weeks audit.

GDPR + cross-border data transfer

What it requires

Lawful basis, DPA with sub-processors, Standard Contractual Clauses for non-EU transfers, breach notification within 72 hours.

How we help

DPA library; SCC templates; data inventory; sub-processor disclosure documents; 72-hour breach runbook tied to your General Counsel.

Client security questionnaires (SIG, CAIQ, custom)

What it requires

Hundreds of questions covering controls, vendors, data flows, incident response β€” with evidence on request.

How we help

Pre-mapped responses to SIG Lite, SIG Core, CAIQ, and the most common custom client questionnaires (BIG-4, F500 procurement). 1-hour turnaround instead of 5-15 hours.

Additional compliance services

Advanced Email Security

AI-powered phishing protection and email filtering

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Secure Email Encryption

End-to-end email encryption and digital signatures

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VoIP Security & Management

Secure voice communications and call management

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Free self-serve tools

Score your risk. Price your downtime. No call required.

Two short diagnostics built by our senior engineers. Answer a handful of questions, get a scored report with next steps β€” yours to keep either way.

Compliance & trust

Compliance frameworks that matter for Professional Services

We distinguish between what we hold, what we align with, and what we help clients achieve β€” mixing those up is how audits get surprising.

  • Certified
  • Aligned with
  • Client support

Client support

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  • SOC 2Client support
    Evidence collection + audit prep built into the engagement
  • PIPEDAClient support
    Canadian federal personal-information handling
  • GDPRClient support
    Data-subject request handling + processor obligations
Questions we always get

Before the call.

Straight answers so the health-check call can skip the basics.

Do you support our practice management / time-tracking stack?

Yes β€” all major platforms including Aderant, Elite, Intapp, Practice Engine, Harvest, Toggl, Clockify, plus the bespoke ones common in consulting. We integrate with the access layer and manage user provisioning.

Can you handle our project SharePoint / Teams sprawl?

Yes. We run a quarterly sprawl audit, archive completed engagements, enforce per-engagement permission templates, and integrate with your engagement-acceptance workflow so new SharePoint sites are provisioned with the right permissions on Day 1, not Day 90.

How do you handle named-engagement security (M&A advisory, regulatory matters, IP cases)?

Per-engagement isolation: dedicated SharePoint site with engagement-specific permissions, separate Teams channel that auto-archives at engagement close, evidence chain-of-custody documented, and audit trail of every access. Standard for M&A and regulatory work.

Can you accelerate our client security questionnaire responses?

Yes β€” this is one of our most-requested professional-services engagements. We pre-map your responses to SIG, CAIQ, and the major F500 custom questionnaires. 1-hour turnaround on the first one, then 30 minutes for refresh.

Do you support remote-first or hybrid professional services firms?

Yes. Most of our professional-services clients are remote-first or hybrid. The whole stack runs cloud-native: Entra/Okta identity, Intune-managed laptops, Teams + SharePoint for collaboration, no VPN, zero-trust everywhere.

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