Articles & Guides
How to Choose a Managed IT or Cybersecurity Provider: What to Ask Before You Sign
Learn how to evaluate an MSP or cybersecurity provider, including service scope, performance, protection, pricing, contracts, and accountability. Includes a downloadable buyer checklist.
AI Finally Works for You. Then You Hit the Limit.
Understand AI tokens, credits, and usage limits—and make your capacity go further through better scope, appropriate model choices, and reliable verification.
Managed IT vs. Managed Cybersecurity: Which Does Your Business Need?
Compare managed IT and managed cybersecurity services, their overlap, and the responsibilities, costs, and evidence that help you choose the right arrangement.
MSP Pricing Explained: What Drives the Cost and How to Compare Quotes
Understand MSP pricing, software costs, labor, and fixed-fee assumptions. Learn how to compare managed IT and cybersecurity proposals.
ChatGPT Chat vs. Work vs. Agents vs. Dots: What’s the Difference?
Compare ChatGPT Chat, Work, workspace agents, dots, Claude Cowork, and AI in other software. Understand the differences and when to use each.
The Tax-Season Rush Was Over. The Cyber Risk Wasn’t.
A CPA’s account of a breach raises three questions about security coverage, failed protection, and what cyber insurance would provide when an incident occurs.
Your Firm’s AI Use May Be Moving Faster Than Your Controls
A managing partner does not need to approve a new AI platform for AI risk to enter the firm. A staff member pastes a client email into an AI tool to clean up the wording. A CAS manager uses AI to...
Your Firm May Be Protected. Your Vendors May Still Expose You
The Breach May Not Start With You — But Your Client Will Still Call You A firm can do many things right and still find itself exposed. You may have MFA. You may have endpoint protection. You may...
Having IT Support Is Not the Same as Proving Client Data Is Protected
A 90-person CPA and CAS firm can look well covered from the outside. It has an IT provider. It has security tools. It has Microsoft 365 controls. It has backups. It may even have someone internal...
Cybersecurity for Accountants: Protecting Sensitive Client and Company Data
Accounting firms are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the sensitive data they hold. Bad actors want access to this data and are developing increasingly sophisticated technology to...
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