The firm is worth more to an attacker than any one client.
Compromising a household yields one target. Compromising the firm that advises two hundred households yields a trusted channel into all of them, with the firm's own name on the message.
Advisors are named publicly
Bios, credentials and direct contact details are published by design. Attacker profiling starts on your own website.
Impersonation carries authority
A message from a known advisor clears scrutiny that a stranger never would. The trust you built is the vector.
Client identity concentrates
Onboarding files, custodial paperwork and portal credentials sit in one estate. A single breach exposes every household at once.
Disclosure is not optional
SEC Regulation S-P and state notification rules turn an incident into a filing, a client letter and a question at your next examination.
Written for the managing partner and the compliance file.
One document that answers what is exposed, what to do about it, and what you can show an examiner who asks what diligence the firm performed.
Every advisor, partner and operations identity assessed alongside firm domains, mail configuration and client-facing portals.
Exposure attributed to the individual it belongs to, so remediation lands with a named person rather than a department.
New credentials and infrastructure changes surfaced as they appear. Escalation to a named contact within the day.
Lookalike domains, spoofable mail configuration and the public detail an attacker needs to write a convincing message as one of your advisors.
A dated, senior-analyst-reviewed record of the diligence performed, retained encrypted and available when you are asked for it.
The notification cycle costs more than the program.
An incident is never only an incident. It is outside counsel, a regulatory filing, a letter to every affected household, and a question at your next examination.
Reported to the FBI in one year. The highest-loss internet-crime category a decade running.
Median reported loss on a single successful business email compromise.
What is already exposed, classified by severity, before anything is remediated.
SOURCE · FBI INTERNET CRIME COMPLAINT CENTER REPORTING
We scope annually against headcount, entity structure and client-facing systems. The number is confirmed in writing before any engagement begins.
Request discovery callWhat managing partners ask first
No. The assessment is entirely external and read-only. We connect to nothing, install nothing, and test nothing intrusively.
Only to confirm the roster in scope. No advisor is interviewed and nothing is collected from them directly.
They secure the systems you control. We assess what sits outside them: personal accounts, reused credentials, lookalike domains and the public detail that makes impersonation work.
It is dated evidence of external diligence, which is what firms are most often asked to produce. We never describe it as anything more than that.
Your named contact is told the same day rather than waiting for the briefing, with the detail needed to act immediately.
Scope moves with headcount, entity structure and how many client-facing systems the firm operates. The number is confirmed in writing before any engagement begins.
Twenty minutes with a managing partner or chief compliance officer.
Mutual NDA on request. First briefing in 72 hours if you engage.