Your clients trust you with their financial data. Who's protecting yours?
Practical IT and cyber-security support for small accountancy practices and sole practitioners — built around client confidentiality, cloud accounting and Cyber Essentials, without hiring an in-house team.
No obligation · 30-minute call · A clear written 90-day plan you keep, even if we never work together.
Accountancy practices are a target — and the bar for 'good enough IT' has moved.
Invoice and payment fraud, ransomware and client-data breaches have made IT a principal-level risk, not an admin task. Most small practices and sole practitioners are carrying exposure they can't see.
Clients & HMRC expect data security
Clients increasingly ask how you protect their data, and your professional body expects sound controls under its code. Cyber insurers now probe the same things at renewal. Vague answers cost you — in trust or in cover.
You're a high-value, soft target
Practices hold client financial records, payroll, VAT and personal tax data, often on ageing systems with no dedicated IT lead. Attackers know exactly which inbox the client payments run through.
A full-time IT hire makes no sense
A capable IT director costs six figures. A break-fix support shop won't give you strategy or data protection. You're stuck between too much cost and not enough cover.
Enterprise-grade IT leadership, sized for your practice.
We give you the senior expertise of an IT director and a security team — on a fractional basis, built around how a small practice actually works.
Cyber Essentials & ISO 27001
We get you certified and keep you there — the controls insurers and clients now ask for, implemented and evidenced.
Virtual IT Director
Ongoing strategy, governance and vendor management at a fraction of a full-time salary — a senior pair of hands on call.
Cloud & secure working
Email, files and accounting systems moved to secure, well-managed cloud — protected access for you and your staff wherever you work.
Cost optimisation
We strip out duplicate licences and dead contracts, so the budget goes to the tools that protect the practice.
Built by someone who's lived inside a regulated industry.
Blue Crow was founded by Lee Jordan, who spent 21 years in financial services — a sector built on client confidentiality, where a single data failure is existential. The same discipline that protects client money and personal data in finance is what we bring to your practice’s IT.
Lee has implemented the very controls your insurer now asks about — Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 — inside other regulated businesses. So you get governance built for a practice that handles confidential client financial data, not generic ‘computer support’.
A free Cyber Essentials readiness review for your practice
- A 30-minute call with a senior IT lead — no junior sales rep
- An honest read on where your practice is exposed
- A written, prioritised 90-day plan you keep
- No obligation, no pressure, no jargon
The questions practices actually ask
We're already tied to an IT provider.
Most firms are — and most of those contracts cover break-fix support, not strategy or data protection. We often work alongside an existing provider as your IT director, or help you transition cleanly when a contract ends. The free review will tell you whether you're actually covered.
We're a small practice — are we really a target?
Small practices are targeted precisely because attackers expect weaker defences and money in motion. Client payments, payroll, VAT refunds and personal tax data are exactly what fraud and ransomware go after. Size is not protection.
How much does it cost after the free review?
It depends on your practice's size and what the review uncovers — there's no point quoting blind. We work on transparent, fixed engagements with no long tie-ins, so you can start small and scale. The review itself costs you nothing.
Do you understand the compliance side, or just the tech?
Both. Our background is two decades inside regulated, client-confidential financial environments, so we frame everything around what your practice is judged on — client confidentiality, data protection, audit trails and your professional body's expectations — not just the hardware.
Find out where your practice is exposed.
Book a free, no-obligation Cyber Essentials readiness review. Thirty minutes now could save your reputation, your livelihood, or a client’s trust.
Prefer to talk? Call 0330 223 7404