What Cyber Insurance Questionnaires Actually Ask Accounting Firms

Cyber insurance renewal is one of the few moments a firm is formally asked to describe its own security position. It arrives as a form. The questions look straightforward, the answers feel obvious, and the whole thing gets completed between other work. The questions are more specific than they look — and it is easy to reach the day before the form is due still trying to confirm what your firm actually has in place. Read more

Your Contractor Ended Its Contract in August. What Did You Do Next?

Practice Protect is the most widely adopted cyber security platform in the Australian accounting profession, built exclusively for accounting and bookkeeping practices. Offshore and remote staffing has become normal in bookkeeping. It’s how practices absorb BAS season without hiring permanently, and how they take on inbox management and data entry at a workable margin. The work arrangement is sorted. The access question usually isn’t. Read more

What Is a Human Firewall? How Accounting Firms Stop a Click Becoming a Breach

A human firewall is your team acting as an active layer of defence — trained to recognise current attack methods, verify payment and access requests before acting, and call immediately when something looks wrong. It does not replace technical controls. Phishing contributes to roughly one third of Australian data breaches, and AI-generated emails now replicate a firm’s own language and clients’ names closely enough that awareness alone cannot stop them. A security-first culture reduces how often a mistake happens. Multi-factor authentication, role-based access, and email filtering limit the damage when it does. Australian accounting firms need both. Read more

7 Cyber Security Features Every Australian Accounting Firm Should Look For — And What Happens When One Is Missing

6 min read | Practice Management | Cyber Security | Compliance | Access Control Every cyber security provider can say “we do MFA” or “we do access control.” Few can show you the audit trail, the compliance documentation, or a support team that already understands the accounting-specific stakes when something goes wrong. This is what […] Read more

Why Password Managers Aren’t Enough for Australian Accounting Firms — And What the Difference Actually Costs You

Tools like 1Password, LastPass, and Dashlane were built to solve a credential problem. Australian accounting firms in 2026 have a compliance problem — and the two are not the same thing. The TPB Code, Privacy Act, and ATO now require specific security controls from every registered tax agent. This is what those controls look like, why standard password management doesn’t deliver them, and what a platform built specifically for your profession does instead. Read more

Why Accounting Firms Need One-Click Offboarding

When a staff member leaves, do you know exactly which apps and portals they can still access? This article covers why manual offboarding fails under regulatory scrutiny — and what Australian accounting firms need to have in place. Read more
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