Accounting

As the rate of cyberattacks grows, hackers know vulnerable systems that contain important financial information are easy targets.

Accounting cybersecurity practices ensure that your firm protects sensitive data, not only for your firm’s compliance but also for the safety of your clients who have entrusted you with their financial, personal, and professional information.

Some Key Areas To Review

Phishing

  • Accounting organizations are increasingly being targeted by phishing attacks.

  • Cybercriminals contact users, impersonating legitimate business contacts.

  • Lure targets into giving up sensitive data and access to company resources.

Ransomware

  • It locks down systems and prevents access until a ransom is paid.
  • It is one of the fastest-growing types of cybercrime.

Client Risk

  • Accounting firms hold important information for individuals and businesses.
  • Accounting firms have a duty to protect this information at all costs.

Financial & Reputational Risk

  • The financial consequences of a cyberattack are considerable.
  • If exposed to an attack, it may lead to significant reputational risk.
  • Recovering some reputational losses can be difficult and as costly as the financial losses.

Many people believe that cyber-attacks are solely the domain of multibillion-dollar corporations. This is a faulty assumption, as 85 percent of managed service providers (MSPs) reported ransomware attacks on small and medium-sized businesses.

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Key NIST/CyberSecure Canada control points:

Network Perimeter & Architecture

  • The network needs to be configured, organized, and connected to ensure security and operability.
  • Use next-generation firewalls that continuously monitor activity and detect intrusions.

Backups

  • Plan to back up your data, operating systems, and applications.
  • Ensure that data and information are stored in the cloud and backed up regularly.

Email Security

  • Use appropriate signatures and standard disclaimers on email messages, faxes and other documents.
  • Report spam/junk emails immediately.
  • Carefully address emails and double-check names in the address lines.
  • Be cautious when communicating sensitive information via email.

Passwords & Authentication

  • Ensure your computer has a user profile lockout policy, which requires reentering a password to gain access.
  • Have strong password policies in place, including password complexity, password age and use of MFA.
  • Use of password managers in accordance with NIST and Cyber Secure Canada guidelines.

Patch Management

  • It’s important to update devices and software on a regular basis.
  • Ensures devices and applications are protected from attacks and operating efficiently.
  • Restricting unauthorized software applications can help mitigate exposure to potential attacks.
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Fusion Computing targeted remediation:

Risk Assessments

Risk must be gauged based on factors such as probability of occurrence, impact on the organization, and prioritization.

Risk assessments should be conducted or reviewed regularly and at least once per year.

Security Controls

  • Anti-virus and MDR
  • Secure encrypted backups
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Encryption at rest and in transit Firewall
  • Incident Response Plan
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Policies and procedures
  • Security Awareness Training
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Multi-Factor Authentication

The CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) are a prescriptive, prioritized, and simplified set of best practices Fusion uses to strengthen your cybersecurity posture. This simplified cybersecurity approach is proven to help you defend against today’s top threats.

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"I got the call no business owner wants - our systems were locked and there was a ransom demand on every screen. I called Fusion in a panic at 9pm on a Friday. They had someone working on it within the hour. By Monday morning our team walked in, sat down, and got back to work like nothing happened. Every file recovered. No ransom paid. I don't even want to think about where we'd be if we'd been with our old provider when that happened."

Sandra M.

"One of our staff had their credentials phished through a fake Microsoft login page. Fusion's monitoring picked up the suspicious login - from overseas, at 2 in the morning - and locked the account before whoever had the password could do anything with it. They called us first thing to walk us through what happened, reset everything, and added extra protections. If that had gone undetected even a few hours longer, they would have had access to our client files. I sleep better knowing someone's actually watching."

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Priya R.

"We'd been with our previous IT provider for six years and thought everything was running well enough. Within the first week of Fusion's onboarding, they found unpatched servers, no working backups, and admin credentials that hadn't been changed since 2019. It was genuinely alarming. Fusion fixed all of it in the first 30 days and built us an actual security baseline. Looking back, we were one bad click away from a catastrophe and didn't even know it."

Derek K.

"We've been with Fusion since 2019 and the thing that still surprises me is how much they remember about our business. I don't have to re-explain our setup every time I call. They know our systems, they know our team, they know our busy seasons. Last year they proactively recommended we migrate a legacy server before it became a problem - saved us from what would have been a very expensive emergency. That's not a vendor relationship. That's a partner who's paying attention."

Michael T.

"We'd been to three different vendor presentations about AI and Copilot and every single one assumed we had a dedicated IT team, a data lake, and a six-figure budget. We have 40 people and a bookkeeper. Fusion came in, looked at what we actually do every day, and found three processes where automation would save us real hours every week. No jargon, no massive investment. They deployed Copilot for our leadership team and built a simple workflow automation that cut our month-end reporting from two days to four hours. That's the kind of AI that actually matters."

Rachel D.

"It is refreshing to work with a technology vendor that is reactive in an expedient manner to our needs as a business. Fusion takes the time to learn what your current and future goals are, offers options to help you achieve them, and make you feel like your business is valued. This partnership has allowed us to reinforce the security of all our operations, protect our customers, and increase our overall efficiency. What a great TEAM!"

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