IT SUPPORT — ACCOUNTING FIRMS
IT support for accounting & audit firms — secure through every busy season
Managed IT for SA accounting, audit, and tax practices — certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, POPIA-ready safeguards, independent backup, and month-end-proof uptime. Flat R450/user/month, excl VAT. On-site from Centurion & Rustenburg; remote nationwide.
- Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — proof for client due-diligence
- POPIA-ready safeguards for sensitive financial data
- Independent backup of client books, returns & working papers
- Month-end & filing-season-proof: monitoring before the crunch
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- Since 1999
- 2 offices
MiBOT provides managed IT to South African accounting, audit, and tax firms — ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified information security, POPIA-ready technical safeguards, hardened Microsoft 365, independent backup of client financial data, and proactive monitoring that holds up through month-end and filing-season peaks. Delivered nationwide remotely with on-site dispatch from our Centurion and Rustenburg offices, flat R450 per user per month (excl VAT), sub-1-hour response.
What managed IT covers for an accounting firm
Month-end & filing-season uptime
Accounting software that freezes on the busiest day is a revenue and reputation hit. We proactively monitor disk, performance, and your practice software so capacity issues are caught weeks before deadline week.
Independent backup of client data
Separate, tested backup of client books, returns, and working papers — across practice software, SQL databases, and Microsoft 365 — so a ransomware hit or hardware failure never costs you a client's records.
Email & payment-fraud defence
Layered filtering and finance-team training to stop the invoice-fraud and business-email-compromise scams that target firms handling client payments and payroll.
EDR, MFA, conditional access, and POPIA-ready safeguards protect the highly sensitive financial and personal data accounting firms hold on every client.
R450 per user per month, excl VAT, 12-month contract
12-month contract, then 30 days' written notice
Included in R450
- Unlimited remote support
- Patch management
- Network monitoring
- Antivirus & anti-ransomware
- Sub-1-hour response on logged incidents
Why South African accounting firms choose MiBOT
An accounting practice's calendar is built around deadlines — month-end, VAT, provisional tax, year-end, audit season. IT that's fine in a quiet week but buckles under filing-season load isn't fit for purpose. We monitor capacity and performance proactively so the crunch weeks are uneventful.
Accounting firms hold some of the most sensitive data there is: client financials, ID numbers, banking details, payroll. That makes them both a POPIA-obligated custodian and an attractive target. We implement the technical safeguards — access control, encryption, MFA, tested backups — that support those obligations and protect that data.
Client due-diligence on a firm's IT security is increasingly common. MiBOT's information security is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified — independently audited — so you can demonstrate, with evidence, that your clients' financial data is handled to the international standard. Most SA MSPs can't show that.
Practice software, SQL databases, and Microsoft 365 each hold pieces of the picture — and Microsoft's recycle bin is not a backup. We back up the whole estate independently and test restores, so a deleted working paper or a ransomware event is a recovery, not a crisis.
IT support for accounting firms — FAQ
Our practice software always slows down at month-end. Can you fix that?
Usually, yes — and proactively. We baseline performance and monitor disk, memory, and database load continuously, so the capacity issues that cause filing-season slowdowns are identified and fixed weeks before deadline week, not discovered on the busiest day.
How do you back up our client financial data?
Independently and tested. We back up practice software data, SQL databases, mailboxes, and Microsoft 365 to separate storage, then perform regular test restores to prove recoverability. Microsoft's retention policies and a local NAS are not enough on their own for the records you're obliged to keep.
Can you help us answer clients' security and POPIA questions?
Yes. We're certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (independently audited), and we implement the technical safeguards (access control, encryption, MFA, tested backups, incident response) that support your POPIA obligations. Your compliance adviser owns the framework; we provide the IT evidence behind it.
Do you need to be on-site at our practice?
Mostly no — monitoring, Microsoft 365, security, backup, and helpdesk are delivered remotely nationwide, with sub-1-hour response on logged incidents. On-site work is dispatched from our Centurion and Rustenburg offices when physical hands are genuinely needed; we're honest about when that's the case.
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Since 1999
IT that survives filing season — free assessment for your firm
We review your performance, backups, and security honestly before the next crunch, then close the gaps. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, sub-1-hour response on logged incidents, flat R450/user/month.