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IT your clients’ data
can count on
Data confidentiality, audit-ready controls, and uptime your advisors need during market hours.
Financial firms don’t get a second chance with client data
Clients pick a financial advisor because they trust you with their life savings, their business, or their family legacy. One breach, one ransomware event, one exposed spreadsheet and that trust is gone.
Gravity Networks builds financial-firm IT the way regulators expect it to look: encrypted, logged, access-controlled, documented, and tested. So your compliance officer stops losing sleep.
Serving businesses across Utah and Tennessee from our offices in Salt Lake City and Knoxville.
What your compliance officer wants
- Documented access & audit logs
- Encrypted data at rest and in transit
- Vendor risk controls (that’s us)
HOW GRAVITY SUPPORTS FINANCIAL FIRMS
Controls built for regulatory scrutiny. Operated by engineers, documented for auditors.
Data confidentiality & encryption
Client data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Access logs are retained and reviewed. Shared drives use matter- or client-level permissions.
Identity & MFA for every account
MFA on every advisor, staff, and vendor account. Privileged access reviews on a quarterly cadence — and documented.
Audit-ready logging
Centralized, retained audit logs across email, file shares, CRM, and financial platforms. If a regulator asks, we can produce them.
Ransomware-resistant backups
Immutable, off-site backups with regular restore tests. Because the one time it matters, ‘we’ll figure it out’ isn’t an answer.
Secure client communications
Encrypted email, secure file exchange, and client portals so sensitive documents don’t travel over plain email.
Business continuity
Your advisors can’t be offline during market hours. Redundant connectivity, failover, and responsive support keep you online.
FINANCIAL-FIRM IT, WITHOUT THE ENTERPRISE BLOAT
You shouldn’t need a bank’s IT budget to protect client data.
Engineers pick up tickets fast — not ‘soon,’ not ‘end of day.’ No call-center tree, no auto-reply purgatory.
One predictable invoice. No surprise overages, no nickel-and-diming.
Gravity Networks has been the managed-IT partner for 100+ small and mid-sized businesses across Utah and Tennessee since 2010. Years of operating experience, not a one-engineer shop.
Salt Lake City and Knoxville teams — not offshore, not a call-center script.
Start with a free data-protection snapshot
A 30-minute call + a 1-page report showing where your firm’s client data could be exposed — and what to do first.
REQUEST A DATA-PROTECTION SNAPSHOTFINANCIAL-FIRM IT QUESTIONS
Compliance, fraud prevention, and audit prep — answered for firm principals and operations leads.
What IT controls do financial firms need under GLBA and the FTC Safeguards Rule?
The amended Safeguards Rule (effective 2023) requires a written Information Security Program, a Qualified Individual responsible for it, MFA for any system that touches customer information, encryption of customer data in transit and at rest, regular penetration testing or continuous monitoring, employee security training, vendor risk oversight, and an incident response plan. We operate those controls for our financial-services clients and produce the documentation auditors and the carrier ask for at renewal.
Do you support SEC- and FINRA-registered advisors?
Yes. Registered investment advisors and broker-dealers have specific cybersecurity, books-and-records (SEC Rule 17a-4), and email-retention obligations on top of the FTC Safeguards Rule. We use compliant archiving for email and instant messaging, immutable backup for required records retention windows, and produce the audit-ready exports examiners request.
How do you protect client data and prevent wire fraud?
Wire-fraud attempts against financial firms almost always start with a business email compromise. We layer MFA, managed identity threat detection for Microsoft 365 (catches session-token theft, rogue OAuth apps, impossible-travel logins), DMARC/SPF/DKIM enforcement on the domain, and a callback-verification policy your team can actually follow under pressure. When client data is involved, encryption is enforced — at rest, in transit, and on every endpoint.
Will you sign documentation our auditor or regulator requires?
Yes — including the written Information Security Program required by the Safeguards Rule, vendor risk attestations, control descriptions for SOC reports, and the line-item answers to your cyber-insurance questionnaire. We treat audit-prep as part of the service, not a billable extra.
Can you support legacy planning software or accounting systems?
Yes. Most of our financial-services clients run a mix of modern cloud (Microsoft 365, cloud CRM) and legacy line-of-business apps (planning software, portfolio management, accounting). We support both — and when migration is the right call, we plan it around tax season and renewal cycles, not against them.
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