C2 Technology Systems

Confidentiality isthe whole product.

Law firms, accounting and tax practices, and financial advisories. We protect privileged communications, simplify decade-spanning document retention, and answer your clients' cybersecurity questionnaires before they ask twice.

Profile · Pro Services

Compliance scope

ABA Formal Opinion 477RSEC Cybersecurity RulesFTC Safeguards RuleIRS Pub 4557State Bar Ethics Rules

Typical engagement

5–250 users · 1–6 offices

Who we usually meet

Managing partner, firm administrator, or COO. Often inherited a 'works fine' IT setup that hasn't kept pace with client questionnaires, hybrid work, or document retention growth. Allergic to surprises in front of clients.

Professional services firms — legal, accounting, financial advisory — operate on a substrate of confidentiality. A breach doesn't just cost money; it ends careers, blows up cases, and may itself be a regulatory event. We design every engagement around three realities: privileged information has to stay privileged, document retention obligations span decades and vary by matter type, and your clients' cybersecurity questionnaires are getting more pointed every year.

What we hear in discovery

The pro services pain points,named.

Privileged communications, end-to-end.

Email containing privileged content has to be encrypted in transit and at rest, recoverable only by intended recipients. SMS and consumer file-sharing apps are not the answer — and your insurance carrier knows it.

Document retention rules are a labyrinth.

Tax records 7 years, real estate documents potentially permanent, client matters 7–10 years per state bar, engagement letters varies — and litigation hold can override all of it. Storage strategy gets complicated fast.

Senior partners work from everywhere.

Court, the airport, a client site, vacation homes. Each environment is a potential exposure point, and 'just VPN in from anywhere' isn't a credible answer in 2026.

Client cybersecurity questionnaires keep getting harder.

Every Fortune 500 client now sends a 30-question security questionnaire. The content overlaps but the formats don't. Every new engagement is fresh paperwork unless your evidence library is already staged.

How we solve them

The C2 playbook for pro services.

Email encryption + DLP for privileged communications.

Outbound encryption gateways with privilege markers, recipient verification, and audit trails. Sensitivity labeling on documents that follows them across the firm and out to opposing counsel.

Service: Cybersecurity

Per-matter retention with tiered storage.

Active matters on fast local storage; closed matters on Wasabi cold storage with retention policies tied to matter type. Legal hold workflows that override retention. Roughly 60% lower storage cost than flat-hot architecture.

Service: Data Recovery & Backups

Conditional access and posture-checked remote work.

MFA at every entry point. Posture checks before tunnel up. Step-up authentication for sensitive matter folders. Senior staff get the experience they expect with the audit trail your malpractice carrier wants.

Service: VPN Design & Implementation

Pre-staged client questionnaire evidence.

We maintain a living evidence library answering the 80% of cybersecurity questions every client asks. New questionnaires get filled by mapping to existing controls in hours, not weeks.

Service: CIO Services & IT Consulting

How we run it

Retention rules, automated.

Per-matter retention policies, automatic tier-down to cold storage at the policy boundary, legal-hold workflows that pause everything. The audit trail prints itself.

c2techsys ~ matter-retention
>$ c2 retention review --org=acme-law --period=q2
Scanning matter file repository…
Active matters: 312
Closed matters in retention: 1,847
Per-matter retention policy: 100% applied
Legal hold: 14 matters (excluded from auto-purge)
Tiering: 312 hot · 1,247 warm · 600 cold
Storage cost vs flat-hot: -68%
 
>$ c2 ediscovery export --matter=24-CV-1892
Export sealed · 12,409 docs · privilege log included
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FAQ

Pro Services questions, answered.

Do you support our practice management software?
We support whatever you run today — Clio, MyCase, NetDocuments, iManage, Worldox, Lacerte, ProSeries, etc. We're not the application vendor; we're the team that keeps the platform and its supporting infrastructure healthy.
How do you handle attorney-client privilege in cloud systems?
Privileged data is encrypted at rest and in transit, with access scoped to the matter team and audit-logged. Cloud platforms (M365, Wasabi) are configured with the controls a state bar reviewer would expect.
Can you help with our clients' cybersecurity questionnaires?
Yes — we maintain a pre-staged evidence library aligned to the most common client questionnaires. Most engagements turn a multi-week annual exercise into a few hours of mapping.
How do you handle litigation hold and e-discovery requests?
We work with your litigation counsel or e-discovery vendor to scope the data set, freeze deletion, and produce export packages with chain-of-custody documentation. We're not the e-discovery vendor; we're the team that gets them what they need without surprises.
Are you familiar with state bar ethics rules around technology?
Yes. ABA Formal Opinion 477R is the baseline; state-specific overlays vary. We design our standard configurations so the answer to 'is this ethically OK?' is yes by default.

Ready to stop fighting your IT?

Tell us what's breaking, what's slowing you down, or what you're trying to build. We'll respond same-day with a real plan — no boilerplate sales sequence.

Same-day response, weekdays. After-hours: ring through to on-call.