You keep email reliable and secure for a trading firm with strong filtering and impersonation protection, multi-factor authentication, monitoring for compromise, retention where it is required, and fast support. Email is both your most critical day-to-day system and the most common route attackers use, so it needs real care on both fronts: keeping it flowing and keeping it safe.
For a firm that moves money and handles sensitive client communication, email security is not optional. Here’s what good looks like.
1. Strong filtering and impersonation protection
Managed filtering stops most phishing and malicious mail, and impersonation protection flags messages pretending to be a colleague, client or supplier, which is exactly how payment fraud begins. We tune it so genuine mail flows and threats are caught.
2. MFA and monitoring for compromise
MFA means a phished password alone cannot get into a mailbox, and monitoring for signs of compromise, like new forwarding rules or odd sign-ins, catches a hijacked account early before it is used for fraud.
3. Retention where it’s required
Trading firms often need to retain communications for regulatory reasons. We help make sure email is kept and recoverable as required, so you meet your obligations without scrambling.
4. Reliable, well-supported email
Beyond security, email has to be dependable. A well-configured environment with resilient connectivity and fast support keeps mail flowing, and gets any issue, including a wrongly quarantined message, resolved quickly.
A real example: client email protected and flowing
We supported a technology firm serving financial trading firms where managed email security caught threats and a mail-rule alert flagged suspicious activity, while we kept legitimate client communications flowing, resolving a quarantine issue within 24 hours. That balance of secure and reliable is exactly what trading email needs.
For most technology and trading firms, this sits within fully managed IT at about £45 to £100 per user per month, billed per user, with the security and resilience these businesses rely on built in.
Why technology and trading firms choose First Stop IT
First Stop IT has supported businesses since 2002, including software and technology companies and firms that serve financial markets. We know the systems these teams depend on: secure VPN and remote access, source control and build pipelines, virtual dev and test environments, Microsoft 365 and Teams, and the security that banks and regulators expect, from multi-factor authentication and endpoint protection to application allowlisting and email security. We work with technology and trading firms in London and across Essex and Hertfordshire. Our credentials include:
- Cyber Essentials Certified
- IASME Cyber Assurance (Gold)
- NCSC Assured Service Provider (Cyber Advisor for Cyber Essentials)
- Microsoft Partner
- Crown Commercial Service Supplier (G-Cloud)
- Quality Principles Certified
We look after more than 2,000 endpoints across 50 companies, we’ve been named a Top 50 UK MSP for three years running, and we support organisations with 10 to 100 employees across Essex, Hertfordshire and London, including Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford.
Book a free IT and cyber security review
Want email that’s both secure and reliable? Book a free IT and cyber security review with First Stop IT and we’ll review it.