Financial services
IT that a bank examiner won't flag.
Banks, credit unions, and financial firms that can't go down, customers who expect things to just work, and examiners who review your IT as closely as your loans. We run IT that meets the rules and stays up for your members and customers.
The realities of financial services
Why IT feels riskier here than almost anywhere.
Downtime means more than an inconvenience
If a branch or a website can't process, that's a customer at the counter and a regulator taking notes. Every minute counts more here than almost anywhere.
Examiners review your IT, closely
Vendor management, security, updates, continuity. Regulators ask about all of it. Your setup is proof, not promises.
One IT contact is one point of risk
Many small institutions run lean. When your one IT person is away or leaves, nobody's watching, right at the moment you need it most.
Trust rests on every interaction
A slow teller system, an online banking hiccup, an email that looks like a scam. Your members notice, and so does your brand.
How we address it
What we handle for financial services
We built our whole practice around regulated businesses. We speak your language, whether that's uptime, exam readiness, or vendor checks, and we run IT the way your compliance people expect it to be run.
- Monitoring and uptime for your core systems
- Security and vendor management for your exam
- Security controls aligned with GLBA and other rules
- Continuity and backup readiness
- Branch and remote-site connectivity
- A compliance program you can show an examiner
The services this comes down to
The services that make it happen.
Network management
We build, watch, and care for your network and computers so they stay up. When something starts to fail, we catch it before you do.
Cybersecurity
Firewalls, device protection, email filtering, and the safeguards auditors look for. We defend you in the background, so ransomware stays a story that happens to someone else.
Compliance & audit readiness
The controls, records, and update schedule that satisfy bank examiners, HIPAA and PCI reviewers, and regulators. We treat compliance as an everyday habit, not a last-minute panic.
Questions they ask
Before you decide.
Does our size exempt us from security rules?
No. Examiners expect a written, working security and vendor program at institutions of every size. The amount of work scales with your systems, but it doesn't disappear for a community bank.
Can we keep our current IT person?
Yes. We're often the layer under a trusted internal person. We give them a team, backup coverage, and strong controls they couldn't carry alone. They don't have to lose anything.
What do you produce for the exam?
Your update records, access reviews, vendor list, security plan, and continuity plans, all organized and current, the way an examiner's checklist expects to find them.
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We look at your network, security, backups, and audit readiness. Then we tell you in plain words what's really at risk. No pressure, no jargon, no scare tactics. If everything's fine, we'll tell you that too.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan · A Qualigence company
What we check
- How healthy your network is
- Where you could be hacked
- Whether your backups would really work
- How ready you are for an audit
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