Accounting & Legal IT · Metro Detroit
IT Support for Accounting and Law Firms in Metro Detroit
Your clients trust you with what matters most.We protect the systems that hold it.
Secure IT and VoIP support for CPA firms, accounting practices, and law offices across Southeast Michigan. Confidential, documented, and reliable — from one local team that answers the phone.
- A real person answers
- Confidential by default
- Local since 2011
On the books · right now
- Client filesEncrypted, access-logged
- Practice softwareOnline
- Phone linesAll clear
- Remote accessMFA enforced
- Nightly backupVerified 2:00 AM
While your firm sleeps, we're watching the systems your clients depend on.
What firms are up against
In accounting and law, an IT problem is a client problem
Deadlines don't move and confidences don't bend. Here's where technology gets in the way — and how we head it off.
Unstable systems
A server that hangs or a workstation that freezes costs billable time and risks the work in progress.
How we fix it
Proactive monitoring and patching that catches the failure before your team ever feels it.
Confidential files at risk
Tax returns, case files, and financial records are exactly what attackers want — and exactly what clients assume is safe.
How we fix it
Layered security around the files that carry privilege and personal financial data.
Phones that slow you down
An outdated phone system means a new-client call rings out, or the wrong person picks up and takes a message.
How we fix it
Modern VoIP with smart routing, mobile softphones, and voicemail-to-email, so callers reach a person.
No in-house IT to lean on
When the office manager is also the IT department, small problems wait until they are big ones.
How we fix it
A local helpdesk that answers, explains it in plain English, and owns the whole stack.
Every one of those is a line item. Here's the ledger.
The risk ledger
Six line items. Every one gets a counterweight.
Technology risk doesn't disappear — you balance it. Tap a line to see the control that offsets it, or balance the books all at once.
The risk → the control
Risk carried6
Controls in place0 / 6
✓ In balance
Tap a line item · every control links to a real service
Client files & documents
Confidential files stay confidential
Client documents, returns, and case files get encryption, role-based permissions, and monitoring. Only the people who should open a file can — and you can show who did.
Explore Cybersecurity →This line item
Client files sitting on a drive nobody has checked
Offset by
Encrypted, permissioned, access-logged
Confidentiality, in plain English
The safeguards your firm is already expected to have
Tax and accounting practices are treated as financial institutions under federal law. Law firms answer to their rules of professional conduct. Most of what both ask for is already how we manage technology every day.
Technical
Protecting the data itself
- Endpoint detection & response (EDR)
- 24/7 monitoring and response (MDR/SOC)
- Advanced patching for systems and apps
- Multi-factor authentication on email and remote access
- Email security, encryption, and phishing filtering
- Dark web monitoring for firm credentials
- SIEM and log retention Add-on
Physical & network
Protecting the way in
- Business-grade firewalls, VPN, and SD-WAN
- Separate staff, guest, and conference-room Wi-Fi
- Structured cabling done right
- CCTV and access monitoring for file rooms
- Private cloud hosting when you want more control
- Secure connections between multiple offices
Administrative
Protecting the paperwork
- Security awareness training for the whole firm
- Phishing testing, with results you can show
- Backup monitoring, restore testing, audit readiness
- Documentation support for your written security plan
- Onboarding and offboarding account controls
- Disaster recovery and DRaaS
Straight talk
No IT company can hand your firm a compliance certificate. Anyone who offers one is selling something.
The FTC's Safeguards Rule reaches tax and accounting practices through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the IRS publishes a template for the written plan it expects. The ABA's Model Rules ask lawyers to make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to client information. Both of those reach into policies and daily habits that live inside your firm, not inside your server room.
So here's what we actually do: build the technical half correctly, document what we built, and help your team formalize the rest. No scare tactics, no upsell disguised as a warning.
Items marked add-on are available in upgraded security packages beyond standard Managed IT plans. Nothing here is legal or tax advice — your firm owns its policies, and we'll help you support them.
Services we recommend
One local team, end to end
IT, phones, security, backups, network, and cloud — managed together, so nobody points a finger at another vendor.
Managed IT Support
Proactive maintenance, a helpdesk that answers, and guidance from a team that understands professional practices.
Explore Managed IT →Cybersecurity & Compliance
Firewall management, endpoint detection, email security, and access control — with the documentation to back it up.
Explore Cybersecurity →Backup & Recovery
Servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 backed up nightly, verified every morning, and tested for real recovery.
Explore Backup & Recovery →Business VoIP
Call routing, voicemail-to-email, softphones, and mobile apps that keep partners reachable without giving out a cell number.
Explore Business VoIP →Managed Network
Stable, secure connectivity for the office, remote staff, and every additional location you open.
Explore Managed Network →Cloud Services
Private cloud hosting and Microsoft 365 done right, with the control that client data deserves.
Explore Cloud Services →Why firms choose us
Local, discreet, and actually responsive
- Trusted by legal, tax, and accounting teams across Southeast Michigan.
- A confidential, security-first approach to every ticket we touch.
- One partner for IT, phones, network, security, and backups.
- Fast local support with no outsourced handoffs and no call center.
- Plain-English answers, so you can make the call without a translator.
Questions we actually get
Accounting and legal IT, in plain English
Do you support the software our firm already runs on?
In most cases, yes. We support the tax, accounting, and practice management platforms you already use — and we keep the workstations, servers, and network underneath them fast, patched, and backed up. When something needs to change, we explain why in plain English first, and we'll coordinate with your software vendor so you're not stuck being the middleman.
Can you help with our written information security plan?
Yes, on the technical side. Tax and accounting practices are treated as financial institutions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which means the FTC's Safeguards Rule applies and the IRS expects a written plan — it even publishes a template for it in Publication 5708.
We build and document the safeguards the plan depends on: access controls, encryption, patching records, backup testing, monitoring, and training logs. The plan itself, the designated coordinator, and the internal policies stay yours. We'll sit down with whoever owns it and make sure the technical sections are accurate.
How do you keep our client files confidential?
Least-privilege access, logged activity, and a local team — not a rotating offshore queue. Our technicians get the access a ticket requires and nothing more, and we can show you who touched what. If your engagement letters or ethical obligations require specific handling, tell us and we'll build to it.
What happens if something breaks the day before a filing deadline?
Deadlines don't keep office hours, and neither does the monitoring on the networks we manage. Urgent issues get a real person, not a voicemail box. Before busy season we'll also walk your setup ahead of time — capacity, backups, remote access — so the crunch isn't the first time anyone looks at it.
Do you handle both our network and our phone system?
Yes. IT, network, security, backups, cabling, cameras, and VoIP all come from the same team. That's the whole point — one number to call, and nobody blaming another vendor while your front desk waits.
We have more than one office. Can you support all of them?
Yes. We connect multiple locations securely, keep the phones and file access consistent between them, and handle the cabling and network design when you open the next one.
Let's talk
We'll take IT from here
Let's take a look at your setup.
You protect your clients. We'll protect the systems that hold their information. Start with a free assessment — whether you run one office or several, we'll find the gaps, fix the slow spots, and keep your technology quietly doing its job.
Prefer to call? (248) 885-5515. A real person answers.
What your free assessment includes
- Where your safeguards actually stand, spelled out in plain English.
- The risks worth caring about, ranked honestly, no scare tactics.
- A fix-first priority list: what to handle now, soon, and later.
- A straight answer on cost, real numbers, explained like a neighbor would.
Takes about an hour of our time and very little of yours. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you that too.