Secure IT for Financial Services
Your clients trust you with their assets. That trust depends on systems that are secure, compliant, and always available. Norvet MSP delivers managed IT built for the regulatory demands and security expectations of financial services.
The IT Challenges Keeping Financial Firms Up at Night
Regulatory scrutiny is intensifying. Cyber threats are accelerating. Your IT has to keep pace, or put your firm at risk.
SOC 2 Audit Pressure
Auditors want evidence of continuous controls, not a last-minute scramble. Without proactive monitoring and documentation, SOC 2 readiness becomes a fire drill every cycle.
SEC / FINRA Compliance Burden
Regulatory expectations around data retention, encryption, and access controls grow every year. Falling behind means fines, consent orders, or worse: loss of licensure.
Phishing Targeting Financial Staff
Wire-transfer fraud, business email compromise, and spear-phishing campaigns disproportionately target financial services firms because the payoff is immediate.
GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) Requirements
The GLBA requires any business that offers financial products or services to protect customer data and clearly explain how it is shared. If you handle loans, insurance, investment advice, or tax preparation, you must have a written security plan. The FTC enforces it.
Downtime Costs for Trading & Transactions
When systems go down, transactions stop. For trading desks, wealth managers, and payment processors, every minute of downtime is measured in lost revenue and client trust.
IT Services Built for Financial Services
Every service is designed to meet the security, compliance, and uptime requirements that regulators and clients demand.
SOC 2, PCI & GLBA Compliance Support
We help you meet SOC 2, PCI (credit card security rules), and GLBA (the law that requires you to protect customer financial data). We check what you have, fix the gaps, and give you the documents you need for audits.
24/7 Threat Monitoring
Our security operations center monitors endpoints, network traffic, and cloud workloads around the clock. Threats are detected, triaged, and escalated before they become breaches.
Encrypted Communications
End-to-end encrypted email, secure file sharing, and compliant messaging platforms that satisfy regulatory requirements for client communication confidentiality.
Secure Cloud for Financial Data
Private cloud and hybrid environments built for financial workloads (encrypted at rest and in transit), access-controlled by role, and logged for audit trails.
Disaster Recovery with recovery time goals Guarantees
Defined recovery point and recovery time objectives backed by tested failover procedures. Your data and operations restore on schedule, not on hope.
Dark Web Monitoring for Client Credentials
Continuous scanning of dark web marketplaces and breach databases for your firm's domains, employee credentials, and client account information, with immediate alerting.
Your stack, supported
We don't ask your firm to rip out what's working
Norvet integrates with the accounting, tax, advisor-CRM, portfolio-management, and compliance-archive systems your advisors, accountants, and operations staff already trust. We harden, monitor, back up, and recover that stack. We don't replace it.
Accounting, tax & bookkeeping
QuickBooks Online + Desktop, Xero, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Drake Tax, Lacerte, ProSeries, UltraTax CS, CCH ProSystem fx
Advisor CRM & practice management
Wealthbox, Redtail, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Junxure, Tamarac (Envestnet), MoneyGuide Pro
Portfolio management & rebalancing
Orion Advisor Services, Black Diamond, Tamarac Rebalancer, Envestnet, AdvyzonPortfolio, Axys
Compliance archive (broker-dealer / RIA)
Smarsh, Global Relay, Mimecast, Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, Microsoft Purview (with WORM retention)
Security stack we add alongside
SentinelOne EDR, Sophos MDR + endpoint, 24/7 managed SOC, KnowBe4 awareness training, Veeam immutable backup, SmartVault / ShareFile secure client share
Regulatory frameworks we align to
SEC 17a-4 / 17a-3 (broker-dealer recordkeeping), FINRA 4511, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, GLBA Safeguards Rule, IRS Pub 4557 (taxpayer safeguards), PCI-DSS where card data is touched
Running something not listed here? Most financial-services stacks combine 5–8 of the systems above with a long tail of broker-dealer or insurance-specific tools. Tell us what you have and we'll tell you honestly which pieces we've supported in production.
Anti-disruption
What bad financial IT vendors do, and we don't
We hear the same four complaints from firms switching off another IT vendor. If any of these sound familiar, Norvet works differently on purpose.
Bad vendor: They treat "archive" as a checkbox. They back up email but cannot satisfy a SEC 17a-4 production request or a state regulator subpoena.
Norvet: Norvet deploys WORM-compliant immutable archives with non-erasable, non-rewriteable retention. When a regulator asks for everything between Q3 2022 and Q1 2024 from advisor X, we can produce it.
Bad vendor: They sell "endpoint security" but don’t enforce session timeouts or screen lockouts on advisor workstations.
Norvet: Endpoint policies enforce session lockout, screen-lock on idle, MFA on every login, and tokenized re-auth for every advisor system. Client PII does not stay on screen when the advisor steps away.
Bad vendor: They don’t separate client PII from firm operational data. One database compromise exposes both.
Norvet: Client PII is segregated and encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Keys are rotated on a documented schedule. Audit logs show every read of every client record.
Bad vendor: They roll out OS or browser updates during market hours.
Norvet: Patch and reboot windows happen after market close for broker-dealers (after 8pm ET) and outside Q1 + extension season for accounting firms. Trading-day or filing-day change requests get held.
Extends what works
We extend what's working. We don't replace it
Most firms come to us already running an accounting platform, an advisor CRM, a portfolio system, and a compliance archive their operations team knows. Our job is to harden, monitor, back up, and recover that stack. When something genuinely needs replacing, we say so honestly and let your CFO see the math.
- We deploy 24/7 SOC monitoring and EDR next to your existing antivirus, not over the top of it.
- We add encrypted offsite backup that meets SEC 17a-4 WORM requirements without disrupting your existing archive vendor.
- We tune VLAN segmentation around your existing dealer-line, call-recording vendor, and compliance-archive integration, not around our template.
- We adopt your existing patch window. For broker-dealers, that’s after 8pm ET; for accounting firms, that’s outside Q1 + extension season.
- When a portfolio-management or accounting upgrade requires new hardware, we quote against the vendor’s spec sheet so your CFO can compare apples-to-apples with any other bidder.
- We document everything we touch in your firm’s documentation system, not in a private wiki our team owns. If you ever offboard from Norvet, you keep the runbook.
Compliance Isn't a Checkbox: It's Continuous Monitoring
We don't just help you pass an audit and walk away. Our compliance advisory maintains your security posture year-round, so you're always audit-ready, not audit-scrambling.
Trust Service Criteria: Security, Availability, Confidentiality
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Regulation S-P, Regulation S-ID, cybersecurity disclosure rules
Rules 3110, 4370: supervision and business continuity
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: requires financial institutions to protect customer data and explain how they share it
SOC 2 Type II in Under 6 Months
A Series A fintech startup in Atlanta came to us with zero compliance infrastructure and an enterprise client requiring SOC 2 Type II certification before contract execution. We deployed endpoint protection, security monitoring (SIEM) monitoring, and access controls within the first 30 days. Policy documentation and evidence collection ran in parallel. The firm achieved SOC 2 Type II certification in under 6 months, and closed the enterprise deal on schedule.
Financial Services IT: Available by Consultation
Plans include compliance advisory, threat monitoring, encrypted communications, and a dedicated account manager who understands the financial services regulatory landscape. Contact us to discuss your specific needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from compliance officers, CFOs, and practice managers.
Your clients trust you with their money.
Trust us with your IT.
Schedule a free consultation to see how Norvet MSP protects financial services firms in Atlanta with compliance-ready managed IT.