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No. We support your compliance with security controls, monitoring, and documentation. Your CCO and counsel own your compliance program.

Yes. We serve independent and regional wealth management firms across a range of sizes. What matters more than headcount is whether your firm has compliance obligations, client data to protect, and advisors who need dependable systems. If that describes your firm, the conversation is worth having. We'll give you a straight answer in your strategy session.

Pricing depends on the number of users and locations in your firm and the support you need. We'll walk through it with you in plain terms during your strategy session.

The 15-minute strategy session is always free — it's a conversation about your firm, your platforms, and your compliance obligations. If it makes sense to move forward, we conduct an environment review: we map your systems, security posture, backups, and platforms against your regulator's and custodian's expectations, and explain what we find in plain English. The scope of that review and any associated costs are agreed before we begin. From there, we build a plan with clear priorities and a timeline. Nothing starts until you approve it.

We work inside Microsoft 365, Redtail, Wealthbox, ClientWorks, and other modern wealth management platforms. If you use something else, ask us during your strategy session.

When something goes wrong, the sequence matters. Here is how VanderNet handles it:

1. 1Detection. Our 24/7/365 SOC monitors your environment continuously. An incident may be detected by our monitoring, reported by your team, or flagged by a custodian or vendor.
2. 2Assessment. We determine the scope and severity of activity within your managed environment. Not every alert is an incident; not every incident is a breach.
3. 3Containment. Where action is needed, we work to contain activity within the environment we manage — isolating devices, suspending accounts, or blocking traffic depending on what we find.
4. 4Notification. Your designated contacts receive a clear update: what happened, what we found, what we did, and what comes next.
5. 5Recovery. Backups support recovery after a threat is contained. We restore affected systems or data in a prioritized order based on what your firm needs most.
6. 6Coordination. For incidents with broader implications, your CCO, legal counsel, insurance carrier, and custodians may need to be involved. VanderNet coordinates the technical response and provides documentation those parties need.

Backups support recovery. They do not replace the containment and assessment steps that come first.

The same layered security follows the advisor — secured devices, monitored access, phishing-resistant MFA, and support that answers when they're between meetings.

When a custodian questionnaire arrives, your technical safeguards are already mapped and documented. We provide your CCO with the system and vendor inventory, network architecture diagrams, access review records, control descriptions, recovery-test results, and risk findings that custodians and regulators ask for. We organize it before the deadline — not during it. If a questionnaire exposes a gap in your documentation, we help you identify what is missing and what it will take to address it.

Yes, and we plan the transition around your deadlines. Nothing changes until you approve it.

We can work alongside your existing IT person or team, or take over completely. Either way, we plan the handoff so your firm isn't left in the middle.

For updates we manage, we assess urgency, review potential impact, test where practical, and schedule deployment around your client reviews and quarterly cycles. General updates are held for 30 days — that window gives Microsoft and other vendors time to identify and withdraw updates that cause problems. Security-urgent patches follow an accelerated process and are not held. Where a software vendor controls its own release schedule, we help you assess the impact and coordinate the response. Nothing changes without your awareness, and critical periods are logged in advance so updates are not deployed before a quarterly deadline.

We serve wealth management firms across Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Midwest.

We don't publish client names — protecting confidentiality is part of the job. If you'd like to speak with a client, we can discuss that at an appropriate stage with their permission. In the meantime, we can walk you through what a typical engagement looks like and what documentation your CCO would receive. You can also read anonymized examples on our

case studies page.

That depends on your registration. SEC-registered investment advisers and broker-dealers are subject to Regulation S-P. State-registered advisers are not automatically covered by SEC rules — the FTC Safeguards Rule may apply instead. FINRA member firms have additional supervision, continuity, and recordkeeping requirements. Where Regulation S-ID applies — which is not universal — a written identity-theft prevention program is also required. VanderNet works with your CCO to identify which requirements apply to your firm's specific registration and business model. This is not legal or compliance advice.

When a new advisor joins, we coordinate device setup, account provisioning, access to the platforms they need, and MFA enrollment before their first client meeting. When an advisor or staff member leaves, we work with your operations contact to remove or suspend access to systems, applications, email, and client data on a defined timeline. Both follow a documented process, not ad hoc handling.

Your CCO has access to the technical documentation that supports your compliance program: system and vendor inventory, access review records, control descriptions, recovery-test results, risk findings with remediation status, and incident and escalation contacts. The cadence and format are agreed when we build your plan. Before a custodian review or examination, we organize the relevant documentation so your CCO is not assembling it under deadline pressure.