Accountants
Accountants and financial professionals handle highly confidential data: tax records, payroll, client reports and forecasts. That data needs protection not just in storage or transit, but wherever it is accessed.
This introduces a frequently overlooked risk: the uncontrolled network edge.
Staff often connect from home, while travelling, or at client sites, usually on networks your IT team does not manage. These networks may be off-the-shelf, unpatched, or shared with insecure devices. Cloud-based and encrypted systems are now standard, but the network the user is sitting on remains an entry point.
Loxada helps close that gap, providing a secure, centrally managed connection wherever your team is working.
Accounting Isn’t Just Done at the Office
Modern accountancy is mobile. It’s common for staff to:
- Log in from home to work on client files
- Carry out audits on site using their own devices
- Access payroll, tax or reporting systems from coworking spaces
- Support clients remotely while travelling
Each of these carries risk that is easy to miss. The networks used to reach sensitive data are typically outside your control, and the usual protections do not address network-based threats in those environments.
Even the best cloud tools cannot compensate for a compromised router or an exposed local network.
The Network Edge Is the Blind Spot
Off-the-shelf and third-party managed routers, the kind found in home offices and serviced spaces, share a familiar set of weaknesses:
- Unpatched firmware, often months or years out of date.
- Default credentials or poorly secured admin panels.
- Shared access, allowing lateral movement from insecure devices.
- No central oversight of configuration or firmware state.
- Reverts to a default state after a factory reset, removing any hardening.
Even when updated, many routers rely on third-party software libraries carrying known vulnerabilities, and those flaws are now targeted at scale.
UK and EU guidance, including the NCSC’s device security principles and ENISA’s work on firmware and supply chain risk, both point to the same conclusion: the edge needs better controls.
Why the Risk Is Rising
These weaknesses were once considered too niche and too fiddly to be worth an attacker’s time. That is no longer the case.
The clearest signal is in the numbers. Within breaches that involved exploiting a vulnerability, the proportion targeting edge devices and VPNs rose from 3% to 22% year on year, an almost eightfold increase, according to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. As the corporate perimeter gets harder to breach, attackers turn to the part of the estate nobody is managing.
Automation is what changed the economics. Scanning for exposed routers is cheap, tooling that once required real expertise is now packaged and resold, and the number of people running these attacks has grown accordingly. The chance of any single home network being targeted remains small. The number of home networks it happens to is not.
For an accountancy firm, the consequences are concrete: loss of client trust, regulatory exposure and reputational damage that outlasts the incident.
How Loxada Protects the Connection
Loxada replaces the unmanaged router at the point of connection with a pre-configured Loxada secure router, and routes traffic through Loxada’s secure connectivity layer, an encrypted connection from the device out to the internet, so your people are not depending on the local network being sound.
Each Loxada secure router:
- Runs Loxada’s secure firmware, not the manufacturer’s.
- Creates an encrypted connection that does not rely on the local network.
- Keeps work devices physically separate from everything else on that network.
- Blocks known malicious domains, dropping requests to domains on Loxada’s aggregated blocklist before they resolve.
- Updates automatically, with firmware securely delivered and centrally managed by Loxada.
- Returns to a secure state after tampering or a factory reset.
No technical expertise is required. The device is plugged in and it works.
Built for Modern Accounting Workflows
Loxada sits alongside the tools you already use:
- Cloud platforms such as Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and IRIS
- Document sharing and secure client portals
- Remote desktop platforms and browser-based tools
- Tax, audit and reporting software
It suits:
- Accountants and tax professionals working remotely.
- Audit teams connecting from client premises.
- Partners and managers reaching financial data from several locations.
- Temporary or seasonal staff working across varied environments.
Devices are assigned to staff, teams or contractors, with central oversight and the ability to revoke access immediately.
Supporting Compliance and Client Assurance
Firms are increasingly expected to show resilience across the whole data access journey, not only inside a managed office. Loxada supports that in the places it is usually weakest:
- NCSC guidance on firmware integrity, network separation and secure connectivity.
- ENISA recommendations on securing edge devices and supply chain risk, for firms with EU exposure.
- Cyber Essentials, where firmware currency and secure configuration are directly in scope.
- Cyber insurance requirements, which increasingly ask how home and remote workers are secured.
- Client assurance and tender processes, where the network edge is a common question with a weak answer.
- UK and EU GDPR, which requires appropriate technical measures around access to personal data.
Loxada gives you a documented, consistent control at that layer. Deployment is fully auditable, with monthly security reports and device-status visibility.
Why Accountancy Firms Choose Loxada
- Protects client data, wherever it is accessed from.
- Reduces exposure to insecure routers and untrusted networks.
- No complicated end-user setup or ongoing intervention.
- Works alongside your current software stack.
- Demonstrates strong data stewardship to clients and insurers.
- Deploys quickly, including for short-term or seasonal staff.
Loxada secures a specific layer, the network your team connects from when it is outside your IT team’s control, and complements your existing endpoint, identity, and connectivity tools, as it is designed to sit alongside them.
