Houston financial advisors serve energy executives, business owners and retirees, and their clients expect privacy. ITServices.Tech provides IT services for Houston financial advisors, with one team for support, security and backups.
Advisory firms in Houston
Many Houston advisory firms are small, independent offices in the Galleria, Memorial, The Woodlands and Sugar Land, with a handful of advisors, an operations team and a custodian platform at the center of daily work. Clients often include energy executives with stock compensation, business owners and retirees, and their account information moves through CRM, planning software, custodian portals and email every day.
SEC and Texas rules for client data
Advisers with less than $100 million under management usually register with the Texas State Securities Board instead of the SEC, but client data protection matters either way. The SEC’s 2024 amendments to Regulation S-P require SEC-registered advisers to keep an incident response program and to notify affected customers of a breach of sensitive information, with compliance dates in December 2025 and June 2026 depending on firm size.
We set up the security controls those programs depend on: MFA, encrypted devices, email archiving and filtering, access logs and tested backups. Your compliance team owns the policies and filings.
Distribution requests and impersonation
Fraudsters target advisory firms with fake client emails asking to move money, often after taking over the client’s own email account. Callback verification on a known phone number for every distribution request, email impersonation protection and staff training on these scams stop most of them.
Custodian access and advisor transitions
Advisors and operations staff sign in to custodian platforms, CRM and planning tools many times a day, and each account should use MFA tied to a company device rather than a personal phone number. When an advisor joins from another firm, accounts, devices and access are ready on the first day, and when someone leaves, access is removed by a written offboarding checklist.
IT services for Houston financial advisors
- Email compromise protection for money movement requests
- Secure client file sharing
- MFA and device encryption
- Documentation for due diligence questionnaires
Everything runs under one managed IT agreement, with the help desk, monitoring, patching, Microsoft 365, security and backups handled by the same team.
Software we support
We support the systems you already run, such as Redtail, Wealthbox, Salesforce, eMoney and MoneyGuidePro, along with portfolio tools like Orion and Black Diamond and custodian portals, without making you replace them.
Texas data rules to know
Under Texas law, a business must notify affected people of a breach of their sensitive personal information within 60 days, and the Texas Attorney General within 30 days when 250 or more Texans are affected.
Office hours in Houston
Office hours for Houston clients are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central, in your own time zone.
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