Client: A Los Angeles-based middle-market accounting and business advisory firm.
Issue: As with many accounting firms, the technology landscape for this firm had significantly evolved in the past five years. In order to streamline engagement management functions, the firm invested in a wide range of technology improvements including time and billing systems, resource planning systems, remote access software and mobile devices.
While the technology deployments were successful, generating clear return-on-investment, both technical personnel and upper management were becoming increasingly concerned that the organization lacked an appropriate information security strategy to deal with the reality that their firm's most critical information was now always available throughout the corporate network and the internet.