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Data Breach Notification Obligations for CPA Firms

A CPA firm that loses control of client data faces a harder problem than most business owners realize: figuring out exactly who has to be told, how fast, and under which law. Accounting firms sit at an odd intersection of regulatory regimes. They...

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Copilot Kept CPA Data Inside Microsoft. Then Microsoft Subcontracted It to OpenAI  in July.

On July 24 Microsoft switched on OpenAI-operated models for every user in eligible commercial Microsoft 365 tenants. If nobody in your firm has...

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What Small Businesses Need to Know About Cyber Insurance Renewal

A cyber insurance renewal used to be a formality. You paid the premium, signed a form, and moved on. That's not how it works anymore. Insurers spent...

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PK Tech Completes Third Consecutive SOC 2 Type II Audit

Phoenix, AZ, September 1, 2026. PK Tech has completed its third consecutive SOC 2 Type II audit, covering a twelve month audit period.

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Amendments to SEC Regulation S-P Took Effect for Smaller Entities on June 3, 2026

Smaller broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, investment companies, funding portals, and transfer agents now operate under a new set of...

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Good IT Support Is Invisible. Bad IT Support Sends You a Bill and a Shrug

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Good IT Support Is Invisible. Bad IT Support Sends You a Bill and a Shrug

TL;DR: Most small businesses are buying reactive IT support and calling it managed IT. The gap between a provider who responds to problems and one...

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How Small Businesses Can Stop Paying for Unnecessary Infrastructure

A server hums in the back office closet. Nobody remembers exactly what it does anymore, but the last time someone tried to turn it off, three people...

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Underused Microsoft 365 Security Features at Accounting Firms

Most accounting firms already pay for Microsoft 365. Far fewer have turned on the parts of it built to stop the exact threats they face every tax...

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What a Real Written Information Security Program Looks Like

Many businesses think a downloaded template satisfies the FTC Safeguards Rule. It doesn't. Swapping in a company name and filing the document away in...

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Why Boilerplate WISP Templates Fail CPA Firms

A partner at a mid-size CPA firm pulls up a Written Information Security Program during a client due-diligence review, or worse, during an FTC...

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