Protect your clients, protect yourself - Oklahoma Society of CPAs

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Security Summit partners have urged tax professionals to take basic actions to stem the data theft from their offices.

"Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself — Summer 2022" focuses on a reminder for tax pros to focus on fundamentals and to watch out for emerging vulnerabilities being seen for those practitioners using cloud-based services for their practice.

Take a look at the Written Information Security Plan (WISP) in IR-2022-147.

IR-2022-151, Security Summit: Tax pros can help clients battle identity theft risk

IR-2022-147, Security Summit releases new data security plan to help tax professionals; new WISP simplifies complex area

IR-2022-144, Security Summit: Tell-tale signs of identity theft tax pros should watch for

IR-2022-143, Security Summit warns tax pros of evolving email and cloud-based schemes to steal taxpayer data

IR-2022-140, Security Summit: Identity Protection PINs provide an important defense against tax-related identity theft

IR-2022-135, IRS Security Summit renews warnings for tax pros to guard against identity theft amid continued threats

FS-2022-34, Security Summit partners urge tax pros to create plan for data safety

For more resources and information for small business from the IRS, visit www.IRS.gov/smallbiz.