Cybersecurity · Finance & accounting
An accounting firm holds exactly what attackers want and what regulators care about, with seasonal peaks and limited protection. intSignal matched the security to the sensitivity of the data and sized support to absorb the busy season.
The problem
Highly sensitive client financial data with limited protection.
What we did
Full and complete IT support with national coverage.
The outcome
One provider across support, security, network, and phones.
The challenge
Highly sensitive client financial data with limited protection. Seasonal workload peaks with no elasticity in support. Regulatory and client compliance expectations to evidence. Credential reuse and phishing exposure across staff.
security controls now in place, correlated and monitored around the clock — up from none.
The approach
Full and complete IT support with national coverage. Cybersecurity and compliance: SIEM, XDR, EDR, FWaaS, SD-WAN. Microsoft 365, password manager, dark-web monitoring. NaaS and UCaaS.
The thinking
A firm holding this much sensitive financial data can't afford gaps between security tools, and can't scale a support team up and down with tax season. We chose an integrated security stack and a managed engagement sized to absorb the peaks — one provider accountable for both the data's protection and the seasonal load, instead of point products and temporary hires that nobody owns end to end.
Why it works
The bigger lesson underneath the numbers is about accountability. Spread the same scope across a dozen small vendors — one for the firewall, one for email, one for the phones, one for each site — and every incident becomes a conference call where nobody is responsible and everybody points sideways. Consolidating to one provider ends that: a single team owns the outcome, a single number gets called, and the systems are unified rather than bolted together at the seams. It also changes the incentives. A large managed engagement is a serious relationship for the provider — real revenue, real stakes — so the provider has every reason to keep it healthy, where a small vendor with a small contract simply doesn't. You stop being one of a hundred accounts spread thin and become the account that matters.
Built to hold up
SIEM, XDR, and EDR protecting client financial data. Dark-web monitoring for exposed credentials; password manager to stop reuse. FWaaS and SD-WAN for a consistent, resilient perimeter. Compliance controls documented and evidenced.
Outcome
Client financial data is now covered by SIEM, XDR and EDR, credential reuse ended with a password manager, and the perimeter is consistent on FWaaS and SD-WAN. Seasonal peaks are absorbed without temporary hires, and compliance posture is documented and evidenced.
NaaS and FWaaS removed network and firewall hardware costs. Managed coverage absorbed seasonal peaks without temporary hires. Bundled security tooling replaced separate subscriptions.
How these figures were derived
Effort and outcomes are reconstructed from production systems of record — ticket histories, call detail records, dispatch and SOC/NOC telemetry — read end to end rather than sampled. Cost comparisons are indexed to a baseline, never a fee or rate. Where a figure is modelled rather than measured it is labelled as such, and the model is documented and available to defend on request.
Customer
An accounting firm
Confidential by contract.
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