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Evolv IT

Financial Services IT. Serving the Southeast.

Your clients trust you with everything. Your IT should be built like it.

Security-first managed IT for registered investment advisers, family offices, and community financial institutions. Reg S-P readiness, GLBA Safeguards mapping, and evidence your compliance officer can hand to an examiner.

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Regulatory deadline: The SEC Regulation S-P compliance date for smaller covered firms passed on June 3, 2026, and the SEC has flagged Reg S-P as an examination priority this fiscal year. If your incident response program, 30-day customer notification procedures, and service provider oversight are not documented yet, that gap is now examinable. Talk to us about closing it.

Definition

What does an IT partner for financial firms actually do?

An IT partner for financial services firms manages technology so that security, availability, and compliance evidence are produced continuously: protected client data, monitored systems, documented vendor oversight, tested recovery, and incident response procedures that satisfy SEC Regulation S-P and the GLBA Safeguards Rule. The output is not just uptime. It is the paper trail that keeps an examination short.

Reg S-P Incident Response Readiness

A written, tested incident response program, 30-day customer notification procedures, and the documentation trail the amended rule requires covered firms to maintain.

GLBA Safeguards Mapping

Administrative, technical, and physical safeguards mapped to your written information security program, with control evidence collected as we operate, not reconstructed at exam time.

Vendor & Service Provider Oversight

Due diligence files, monitoring records, and breach notification terms for the third parties that touch client data. The amended Reg S-P makes this oversight your obligation. We make it your routine.

Managed Security Stack

EDR on every endpoint, MFA on every account, email security, encrypted devices, and employee awareness training tuned to wire fraud and impersonation schemes targeting advisory firms.

Family Office Discretion

Family member PII, estate plans, trust structures, and portfolio information protected with institutional controls and a small, named team. No rotating cast of strangers in your systems.

AI Governance for Client Data

Advisors are already summarizing client information in AI tools. We surface it with the anonymous AI Shadow Survey, then apply Microsoft Purview controls so client data never trains someone else's model.

Who We Serve

Firms where one breach is one too many.

  • Registered investment advisers and wealth management firms
  • Family offices, single and multi-family
  • Community banks and credit unions
  • Accounting and tax advisory firms
  • Insurance agencies and brokerages

At most RIAs, the Chief Compliance Officer is the de facto IT decision maker. We build every report, policy, and piece of evidence so a CCO can answer an examiner directly from our materials.

An examiner does not accept "our IT guy handles that." They accept documentation. We produce it as a byproduct of how we work.

The Reg S-P Gap, Closed

What the amended Regulation S-P requires, and what we deliver

Amended Reg S-P RequirementWhat Evolv IT Delivers
Written incident response programDocumented detection, containment, and recovery procedures, tested with your team, maintained as systems change
30-day customer breach notificationNotification workflows, contact data hygiene, and decision documentation for when notice is or is not required
Service provider oversightVendor inventories, due diligence records, and monitoring evidence for every third party touching customer information
Compliance recordkeepingRetained records of policies, incidents, investigations, and notifications, organized for examination response

Larger covered entities were required to comply by December 3, 2025. Smaller entities by June 3, 2026. The SEC has stated Reg S-P compliance is an examination priority in fiscal year 2026. If your firm has not operationalized these requirements, the window to do it before an exam is the window you are in right now.

Straight Answers

Questions compliance officers ask us

What did the SEC Regulation S-P amendments change?
The 2024 amendments require covered firms to maintain a written incident response program, notify affected customers of a data breach within 30 days, oversee service providers that handle customer information, and keep records documenting compliance. Larger entities had to comply by December 3, 2025 and smaller entities by June 3, 2026.
Does a family office need the same security as an RIA?
A family office may not face SEC registration, but it concentrates exactly what attackers want: family member PII, estate plans, trust structures, and portfolio information in one place. Family offices need institutional-grade controls applied with discretion, even where formal regulatory mandates do not apply.
Can you support our SEC examination preparation?
Yes. We maintain the technical evidence examiners ask for: access reviews, vendor oversight documentation, incident response records, encryption status, and written policies that match actual practice. Most of the painful part of an exam is reconstruction. Our clients do not reconstruct. They retrieve.
We have an internal IT person. Can you work with them?
Yes. Co-managed arrangements are common with our financial clients. Your internal resource keeps day-to-day ownership and we provide the security stack, compliance documentation, escalation depth, and after-hours coverage one person cannot deliver alone.
How do you handle confidentiality for family offices?
A small named team, background-checked staff, least-privilege access, full activity logging, and confidentiality terms. You will know exactly who can touch your systems, and the list will be short.

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