Your practice holds sensitive client financial data, processes payroll, and relies on third-party cloud tools. Fortify gives you a free resilience check, a documented compliance programme, and the evidence you need when clients or insurers ask.
The compliance landscape for accounting practices
Accountants hold highly sensitive client data
Financial records, payroll data, tax information — accounting practices hold some of the most sensitive data any organisation can hold. A breach isn't just an IT incident, it's a regulatory and reputational crisis.
Cyber insurance and client questionnaires
Accountants increasingly face cyber security questionnaires from enterprise clients and insurers. Without documented policies and evidence, you cannot answer them confidently.
GDPR obligations are not optional
As a data controller processing client financial data, you have clear GDPR obligations — lawful basis, data processing agreements with payroll providers, and a documented response plan for breaches. Most practices don't have these in writing.
AI-guided conversations covering the areas ICO, cyber insurers, and clients actually ask about. Personalised PDF report with findings and prioritised actions.
Covers cloud security, access controls, backup and recovery, staff awareness, and operational continuity — the areas that matter most for a practice handling sensitive client financial data.
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An AI-guided assessment covering all the areas the ICO expects: lawful basis, data subject rights, processor agreements, breach response, and privacy notices.
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Ongoing compliance management, evidence storage, and reporting — without a dedicated compliance officer.
GDPR Evidence Collection
Document your data processing activities, lawful basis, and retention schedules. Upload processor agreements and privacy notices against each control.
Incident Management
Log and manage data incidents — ransomware, accidental disclosure, phishing. Generate an ICO-ready incident report and track response actions.
Policy Templates
AI-generated and editable policies — data protection, acceptable use, information security — ready to brand and distribute to your team.
Vendor Risk Register
Track all third-party processors — payroll providers, cloud accounting platforms, CRMs — with questionnaire responses and contract evidence attached.
The compliance tools you need, at a price that makes sense for a practice of any size.
Plain-English assessments, AI guidance, and actionable recommendations — designed for the partner or practice manager who wears every hat, not a dedicated security team.
Our GDPR assessment covers all the key ICO expectations: lawful basis, privacy notices, processor agreements, breach response, and individual rights. Everything documented and auditable.
Our Digital Resilience assessment maps your posture against Cyber Essentials controls. The portal tracks your readiness score and guides you through closing each gap.
A completed assessment, documented policies, and an active risk register give you concrete answers to the security questionnaires clients and cyber insurers increasingly send.
Advisor Programme
Many accounting practices are adding cyber resilience to their advisory services. As a Fortify advisor, you can run assessments for clients, generate white-label reports, and build a new service line — at no extra cost.