Frequently Asked Questions

Practice Protect is the world’s #1 data security platform for accounting firms. It lets you gain complete control over the access of client data and passwords within your business with enterprise level automation, application security, and human-powered support.

Practice Protect is built for the future of accounting. From compliance to advisory , single sign on and one click offboarding, Practice Protect is trusted by more accountants worldwide than any other password and data management tool.

Practice Protect is an accounting and bookkeeping-specific done-for-you data security platform.

Practice Protect has 4 hubs: Security, Access, Compliance and Advisory.

Security Hub: A single pane of glass access where all client and company data is secured

Access Hub: Helps you manage your growing app stack

Compliance Hub: Provides advanced compliance with maximum protection and coverage

Advisory Hub: Human-powered technology with elevated support

Expand, hire, work from home and guard against threats with more trust and less risk. That’s the power of Practice Protect in your business

In a word, yes.  Practice Protect allows accounting teams to quickly and easily access all their cloud apps via one master password (plus a single two-factor code, if desired).

Where possible, we’ve also built deep integrations (the technical term is via SAML/OpenID) with many popular accounting apps that reduce the need to manage so many multi-factor codes.

We integrate with all popular accounting apps including Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, BGL, Class, FYI Docs, NowInfinity, Practice Ignition, SuiteFiles, Nimbus, Hubdoc (plus over 50+ others)

Practice Protect gives you complete control over client data and passwords in your business using a suite of tools that’s organized into four distinct hubs. Practice Protect is advanced data security for the accounting firm of the future.

• Security Hub: Enterprise grade login security built for the accounting firm of the future. Protect the access and management of sensitive client data and passwords everywhere and from anywhere. Click here to see all the features the Security hub has to offer.
  
• Access Hub: Manage your growing app stack and team with controls, automation, and integration. administration. Click here to see all the features the Access hub has to offer.
  
• Compliance Hub: Industry leading compliance and protection from regulatory updates to attorney-built compliance and security documentation templates. Use pre-built client letters to give the company’s you work with peace of mind and always stay up to date with law. Click here to see all the features the Compliance hub has to offer.
  
• Advisory Hub: Offering superior technology and security is not all on offer with Practice Protect. Built in is industry-leading expert support, powered by humans. From training to audits, technical support and access to the PP University, the advisory hub scales with you. Click here to see all the features the Advisory hub has to offer.

Data Security isn’t just a tech issue. It’s a staff issue, a legal issue, and a client issue. All of these issues form the basis of the four Hubs in Practice Protect.

The Security Hub, the Access Hub, the Advisory Hub, and the Compliance Hub all work together to help small businesses deal with these.

While data security isn’t just a tech issue, we still work closely with different IT providers to provide an overall solution for our mutual accounting firm clients and make sure that our solution works for our clients’ IT environments.

Generally, Practice Protect will “play nice” with your existing IT infrastructure.  As part of our onboarding process, we conduct an analysis to ensure your configuration is appropriate for your firm and your IT environment. 

Practice Protect also offers email protection for all our clients, and we integrate with Microsoft365 and Active Directory.

There’s nothing worse than subscribing to a new software product, only to find that it chews up valuable internal resources to install and configure.

That’s why we provide concierge onboarding to all our new clients.  This includes:

• an analysis of your IT environment
• configuration of the app to suit your needs
• scheduling and delivery of team training

All of this ensures you start to see the protective and efficiency benefits of Practice Protect as soon as possible.

Practice Protect has adopted simple and transparent pricing that allows teams of any size to access our platform, cost effectively.

Thanks to our huge user base of over 13,020+ accounting team members, we’re also able to include several valuable bonuses with every subscription, including:

• Unlimited Team Training
• Licence to use our Legal Compliance Pack
• Accounting Data Security Standard

The majority of our 13,020 users and 1,170 client firms are based in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand UK, Sweden, Singapore and Hong Kong. 

Practice Protect was founded by Jamie Beresford ( LinkedIn | Twitter) who is also the CEO.  Jamie has an IT services background and has been building and managing IT service capabilities since 2003.  It was through working with accounting firm clients that he recognised a gap in the market for a comprehensive Cloud Security and Cloud Control solution.

Our business has been working with accounting firms since 2003. The Practice Protect brand was born in 2016 specifically to help accountants with the challenges of cloud accounting and the new security risks it poses for firms.

We are now privileged to serve 1,070+ accounting firm users from 13,020+ client firms, making us the largest provider of cyber security to the accounting industry.

If you’d like to learn more about what data security vulnerabilities may exist for your firm, and how to eliminate each one, the next best step is to request a Free Demo with one of our data security consultants.

During this session, we’ll show you how Practice Protect can help you effortlessly manage and control your sensitive data, reduce risk and increase efficiency. Have more trust, less risk with Practice Protect.