Industry guide
Managed IT diligence for financial advisory firms.
Firms hold client portfolios, account credentials, and communications regulators expect preserved and producible. Advisers live under books-and-records and privacy-safeguard rules, examiners ask about cybersecurity programs directly, and an email archive that cannot be produced is a finding, not an inconvenience.
What binds you
The frameworks
The industry question
Is communications archiving in scope, and can you demonstrate retrieval for an exam?
It belongs on the checklist, in writing, next to the other 18.
The method
The bench, applied
The tactics
Lock-in contracts, stripped quotes, and exit traps, documented in the industry's own words with checkable sources.
See the tacticsAdaptThe standard
Fourteen marks of a fair managed IT agreement, stated plainly and provider-neutral.
See the standardProtectThe benchmark
The four-step method and the 18 questions to ask in writing, with a printable checklist.
Use the benchmarkYour state
Financial Advisory Firms, state by state
The same diligence with your state's verification layer: the breach statute, the entity search, the regulator.
Choose your state
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Educational reference, not legal advice. Frameworks are summarized at the framework level; confirm specifics for your situation with counsel or the primary source.