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Industry
Client-confidentiality-grade security for firms whose entire asset is other people's sensitive information.
The context
For a consulting, legal, audit or architecture firm, the whole balance sheet is intellectual property and client confidence. A breach is not an IT incident; it is an existential client-relationship event, and increasingly a contractual one now that client security questionnaires have teeth.
These firms are also mobile. Staff work from client sites, hotels, home and airports, on laptops holding material that must not leak. That makes endpoint security, encryption and identity the centre of the design, rather than the perimeter.
The constraints
Generic IT advice fails here for specific reasons. These are the ones that change the design.
The sensitive material travels. A lost laptop is a disclosure event unless encryption and remote wipe are already in place.
Enterprise and public-sector clients now audit their advisors. Weak answers cost engagements.
An hour of IT friction for a partner is a directly billable hour lost. Support speed has a measurable price.
Concurrent editing of client deliverables without version control produces errors that reach the client.
Teams expand and contract per engagement, needing fast onboarding and genuinely complete offboarding.
Our approach
Specific design decisions, not principles. This is what actually changes in a deployment for this sector.
Full-disk encryption on every device from day one, centrally recorded, with remote wipe tested rather than assumed.
MFA, conditional access by location and device state, and a genuine offboarding checklist so departed staff lose access the same day.
Policies, network diagrams, backup evidence and patch records maintained so a client questionnaire takes an afternoon, not a fortnight.
Tiered SLA that reflects commercial reality: partner and fee-earner issues escalate ahead of back office.
SharePoint or OneDrive with a matter-based structure, version history and controlled external sharing that expires.
A typical engagement
The firm had lost a shortlisting because it could not answer a prospective client's security questionnaire credibly. No MFA, no device encryption record, no documented backup evidence. We closed the gaps in the order that reduced real risk fastest and produced the evidence pack alongside.
Client details are withheld deliberately. We do not publish client names or site specifics without written permission — particularly for security work, where publishing what we installed and where would be indefensible.
Full capability
Most clients in this sector start with the pillars above and add others as the estate consolidates.
Other sectors
Tell us the constraint you are up against — a site, a deadline, a compliance requirement, an audit finding — and we will tell you what is realistic.