Financial services firms, accounting practices, RIAs, and insurance agencies across the Rochester area face a regulatory landscape that's evolved faster than most providers can keep up with. The FTC Safeguards Rule (GLBA, significantly expanded in 2023), client expectations around data privacy, and cyber insurance prerequisites all push financial firms toward documented, mature IT operations. Hurricane Technologies handles managed IT for financial services firms across the Greater Rochester area.
Compliance requirements financial firms actually face
- FTC Safeguards Rule — applies to most financial institutions, including non-bank lenders, tax preparers, and accounting firms
- SEC cybersecurity rules and FINRA supervision requirements — recordkeeping, trade integrity, and incident disclosure (for RIAs and broker-dealers)
- State-level data breach notification laws (NY SHIELD Act)
- SOX IT general controls — for public companies and the firms that audit them
- SOC 2 reports — increasingly requested by institutional clients and referral partners
- Cyber insurance application requirements — increasingly granular
Common IT pain points for financial services firms
Most financial firms come to us with similar concerns:
- "I have no idea if we'd pass an FTC Safeguards audit."
- "Our backup process is whatever the previous IT guy set up — I'm not sure it works."
- "Email is our biggest exposure but we don't have encryption set up."
- "Our cyber insurance renewal is asking questions I can't answer."
How we help
Our managed IT service for financial services includes the controls and documentation regulators expect. Most of our financial clients also engage us for IT compliance, NIST framework alignment, and Microsoft 365 hardening.
Where we serve financial firms
Hurricane supports financial services firms across Rochester, Monroe County, Livingston County, Ontario County, and Genesee County.
