Security work that respects your firm's calendar, providers, and capacity.
A security engagement should reduce confusion, not create another layer of it.
Double Rule uses a defined operating model so the partners, internal staff, IT provider, and outside vendors know what is happening, who owns it, and when a decision is required.
We begin by understanding the environment.
The introductory call is not a disguised technical assessment.
We use it to understand:
- Firm size and office structure
- Internal and outsourced technology responsibilities
- Primary tax and accounting systems
- Existing security and compliance work
- Current business concerns
- Important deadlines
- Recent incidents or insurance requirements
- Whether the engagement is likely to be a fit
When we are not the right provider, we say so directly.
We establish a reliable baseline before recommending major changes.
The Accounting Security Foundation gives us enough information to distinguish between:
- A documented risk and an assumed risk
- A missing control and a poorly configured control
- A technology problem and a process problem
- Work your existing provider can perform and work requiring a specialist
- An urgent issue and an improvement that can be scheduled later
That prevents unnecessary purchases and disruptive recommendations.
We work with your existing IT provider.
The firm does not need a vendor conflict.
Double Rule defines security requirements, validates the current state, maintains the program, tracks risk, and reports to leadership.
The IT provider may continue handling implementation, administration, helpdesk, infrastructure, and support.
Depending on the issue, work may be completed by:
- Your existing IT provider
- A software vendor
- Double Rule
- Black Lantern Labs
- Another specialist
- Internal firm personnel
The responsible party is documented, and Double Rule tracks the item through completion.
We schedule material changes around filing season.
The firm's operating calendar matters.
Where practical, major migrations, disruptive configuration changes, broad access changes, and infrastructure projects are planned outside peak filing periods.
During filing season, the posture shifts toward:
- Stability
- Monitoring
- Rapid coordination
- Access oversight
- Threat awareness
- Provider coordination
- Avoiding unnecessary operational disruption
Urgent risks are still addressed. The difference is that the response accounts for the business consequence of an interruption.
We report to leadership in business language.
Partners should not need to interpret a vulnerability scanner or sit through a technical status meeting to understand whether the firm is improving.
Reporting focuses on:
- Material risks
- Business impact
- Remediation status
- Required decisions
- Program changes
- Incidents and exceptions
- Important vendor issues
- Evidence that safeguards are operating
Technical detail remains available for the people performing the work.
Pricing is defined before work begins.
The Accounting Security Foundation is a fixed-fee engagement scoped around the size and complexity of the firm.
Managed Accounting Security is an ongoing monthly program under an annual agreement.
Software, testing, implementation projects, and other specialized work are separately identified and priced.
The firm should be able to distinguish between:
- Professional services
- Ongoing program management
- Software licensing
- Technical implementation
- Optional projects
No surprise tools. No hidden hourly meter. No product inserted into the monthly fee without explanation.
The relationship is built for questions that do not fit neatly into a ticket.
Security issues rarely arrive with perfect labels.
A strange email, urgent employee termination, new vendor, client questionnaire, suspicious login, insurance request, software change, or possible exposure may involve several providers at once.
Double Rule gives the firm a named security contact who can assess the situation, determine who needs to be involved, and keep the response from becoming fragmented.