Providing IT support, cybersecurity, and compliance to keep your business secure.
Providing IT support, cybersecurity, and compliance to keep your business secure.
Most CPA firms in Chicago with 10–50 employees spend between $150 and $225 per user, per month for fully managed IT services. For a typical 20-person CPA firm, that equals roughly $3,000 to $4,500 per month. The exact cost depends on security requirements, compliance expectations, response times, and how critical IT uptime is during tax season. Lower-priced options often exclude proactive monitoring,…
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For most CPA firms, IT support should respond within 15–30 minutes for critical issues and within 1 business hour for urgent problems. During tax season, response times slower than 60 minutes can significantly increase downtime risk, missed deadlines, and staff productivity loss. CPA firms with 10–50 employees typically require guaranteed response times, proactive monitoring, and priority support to keep systems running during…
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CPA firms are expected to meet 7–9 core IT security and compliance requirements to properly protect client financial and tax data. One of the most critical—and commonly overlooked—requirements is maintaining a Written Information Security Policy (WISP), which the IRS explicitly requires for firms that handle taxpayer information. Alongside a WISP, CPA firms typically need multi-factor authentication (MFA), email security, endpoint protection, secure…
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