Silent Risks in Accountancy IT: What Most Practices Overlook (Partner Webinar)

PARTNER WEBINAR

This webinar has been planned and delivered in conjunction with one or more of our valued third-party partners. All such webinars are subject to our quality control procedures to ensure relevant learning objectives are set and met, alongside any product demonstration. A member of the 20:20 Innovation team will be joining the presentation, ensuring a lively and relevant dialogue.

OBJECTIVES

Understanding the threat: how quiet vulnerabilities can lead to major problems

Understanding the fixes: practice solutions will vary according to size and risk profile

Quick wins: low-cost actions you can take in the next 30 days

This session is ideal for those new to the topic or who’ve inherited IT oversight as part of their role, and equally valuable for experienced ops/IT leads who want a structured checklist (asset inventory, patch SLAs, segmentation, M365 sharing defaults, restore testing, quarterly access reviews) and governance metrics they can report to partners. Purely technical administrators looking for deep configuration walkthroughs may find this too high-level.

KEY TOPICS

• Why firms get bitten by small gaps (two short, anonymised stories).
• The five biggest silent risks (Shadow IT, Endpoints, Identity, JML, Backups) with what “good” looks like.
• Controls you can actually run: vendor DD, DLP guardrails, continuity runbook, and the four key metrics.
• Your 30-day plan + templates and how to hold providers accountable (scorecard cadence).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Owners/Partners, Practice Managers/COOs, and the firm’s IT liaison (internal lead or MSP-facing contact) in small–mid-sized UK accountancy practices (roughly 5–120 staff). The session is non-technical and practical, aimed at leaders responsible for risk, compliance, client data protection and operational continuity who need clear controls they can delegate and govern (rather than hands-on configuration).

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