Cyber has become a board-level responsibility. Adeo gives the managing partner — and the firm’s risk partner — an independently produced answer they can table.
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Underwriters want it documented on the file; a verbal assurance, from any single party, no longer secures a renewal. What the firm attests at renewal is what the insurer tests at claim time, and Adeo produces that record in a form the firm owns and can table.
Cyber has left the IT housekeeping list. A practice is exposed wherever its own sense of readiness and the evidence an underwriter will accept part company, and boards are now expected to know the difference.
ASIC has said it expects boards to oversee cyber risk, and a director’s duty of care is now generally read to include it. In an incorporated practice, partners sit in two chairs — as lawyers for their clients and as directors of their own practice.
Client confidentiality obligations create exposure the MSP’s service contract rarely speaks to. However the fault falls, the breach is the firm’s to own and report.
A managed-service fee indexed above the cap the contract set, licence counts that never came down after the last departure, a scope no partner has re-read since signing. The MSP Value & Performance Quick-Scan reconciles what the firm pays against what the agreement says, line by line, in a form you can put on the table at the annual review.
Full engagement details live on the Services page. Every proposal is written in advance; scope, fees and any continuing commitment are agreed in writing before work begins.
On a first engagement with a firm of 30 to 80 staff, the work is built to surface defects of a shape self-assessment rarely catches. For example:
The output is a document a managing partner can forward to the MSP with one line: “We need these actioned, please confirm timeline.”
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