Dickson: Spreading the IT Message

Accounting Technology,  September, 2005  by Riccardo A. Davis

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Michael Dickson has been spreading the word about technology and business in the CPA community since the 1970s. In fact, he once described a company he founded as designed to bridge that gap between the two.

For Dickson, whose career started in a large regional firm, it seems fitting that he has come back to a regional CPA firm this year, joining Plante Moran, the nation's fifteenth largest firm, this time, helping clients improve their computer security.

Security is a hot topic. MasterCard's acknowledgement this past summer that the security of some 70,000 cardholders' data had been breached served to reignite businesses' concerns over security risks. That concern has pushed the revenue of Southfield, Mich.-based firm up 50 percent in the last year, says Dickson.

"Those identity theft commercials from Citi-Bank have done more to increase public awareness. That's what's driving the growth," says Dickson, now ...