Editorial Policy

Tech Advisors publishes statistics, explainers, and guidance for the people who run CPA, tax, accounting, financial-services, legal, and real-estate firms. Much of what we write touches money, compliance, and security — decisions where being wrong has real consequences. This page explains the standards we hold our content to, and who is accountable for it.

Who writes for us

Our articles are produced by the Tech Advisors Editorial Team — a collaboration between our MSP and security practitioners and our editorial staff. We use AI-assisted tooling to help with research and first drafts, but every article is fact-checked and approved by a person before it is published. We do not publish machine-generated content unreviewed, and we do not invent author bios, credentials, or first-hand stories we cannot stand behind.

How we source statistics

Every statistic we publish is traceable to a named, primary source, and we link to that source so you can verify it yourself. We prioritize sources in this order:

• Tier 1 — primary research and government data: the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the IRS and its Security Summit, the FTC, CISA, NIST, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, Coveware, and the AICPA. We prefer these and cite them directly.
• Tier 2 — established publications with real editorial standards, used only as supporting context.
• Not acceptable: SEO content farms, undated pages, and aggregators that merely re-cite someone else’s number. When we find a figure on an aggregator, we trace it back to the original research and cite that instead.

We do not present third-party statistics as our own data, we avoid round numbers without a citation, and we deliberately exclude widely-repeated claims that have no verifiable origin (for example, the oft-quoted but unsourced “60% of small businesses close within six months of a cyberattack”).

How we fact-check

Before an article is published, every statistic in it is re-verified against its primary source in a separate review pass — independent from the drafting step — to confirm the number and its context are accurate and current. If a figure cannot be confirmed against a live primary source, it does not run. Data-heavy resource pages are reviewed and refreshed on a monthly cadence, and each shows when it was last updated.

Human review & accountability

No article goes live on a “your money or your life” topic — cybersecurity, compliance, breach costs, financial risk — without a named member of our team reviewing and approving it. Our published content is reviewed by Konrad Martin, who has led Tech Advisors’ work with accounting and financial firms for over two decades. The byline on each post names who reviewed it.

Our articles are educational and general in nature. They are not legal, tax, accounting, or individualized financial or security advice. For guidance specific to your firm, talk to a qualified professional — we’re happy to be one of them.

Corrections

We want our numbers to be right. If you believe a statistic or claim on this site is inaccurate or out of date, email us at info@tech-adv.com with the page and the issue. We review every report, correct confirmed errors promptly, and note material corrections on the affected page.

Using our statistics

You’re welcome to cite the statistics we aggregate, with attribution to Tech Advisors and a link back to the page you took them from. Each figure also links to its original source so you can reference the primary research directly.

Contact

Questions about our editorial standards? Contact us at:

Tech Advisors, Inc.
75 State St, Suite 100
Boston, MA 02109
Email: info@tech-adv.com