Atlanta, Georgia · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week

Atlanta runs the country's card swipes. We keep yours from paying someone else.

Three grocery stores in Decatur, Buckhead and Alpharetta with card terminals that never sleep, a dental group in Sandy Springs, a fintech in Tech Square with SOC 2 due before the round closes. You built it on the Connector and GA-400. Someone overseas found an unpatched door last night. We watch the other side of that, around the clock.

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Serving Midtown and Tech Square, Buckhead, Downtown, Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, Alpharetta and Roswell, Marietta and Cumberland, Decatur and Peachtree Corners and Norcross. Remote first, on site when it matters.

A Atlanta story

The Tuesday three stores' card terminals almost started paying someone else

the founder of a three-store specialty grocer with locations in Decatur, Buckhead and Alpharetta

It is a Tuesday in October, pollen long gone, and the Decatur store opens at seven. The founder started with one storefront off the square twelve years ago. Now there are three, and every one of them lives on cards: eleven thousand swipes a week, every one of them somebody's trust.

The back-office PC in Decatur runs a remote support tool the point-of-sale vendor installed in 2023. The vendor fixed a flaw in it in August. Nobody at the store was told, so nobody patched it. At 5:50 that morning someone in another time zone walks through it and drops a program that reads card numbers from memory before they are encrypted.

The three back-office machines share one flat network. By 6:08 the program is on all of them.

The engineer isolates the three machines and calls the founder at 6:14, before the first customer. The card terminals sit on their own network segment and never saw the program. The stores open at seven, the cards run clean, and the quarterly PCI questionnaire gets answered with Tuesday's log instead of a guess.

At 6:11 the protection agent on the Buckhead machine catches the program waiting for the first card of the day and stops it.

What changes the ending

Card terminals on their own network segment, so a back-office PC cannot reach them even when it is owned (CIS 12 Network Infrastructure Management).
Patching the remote tools and the point-of-sale software the week the fix ships, because 42% of retail breaches start with a known flaw (CIS 7 Continuous Vulnerability Management).
A protection agent on every register and back-office PC that stops a memory scraper before the first swipe (CIS 10 Malware Defenses).

What price are you willing to pay to let twelve years of building in this city go away because someone overseas tricked one person on your team into clicking a link, or found the one door nobody patched? We would rather you take the vacation you earned and land at Hartsfield to find payroll still there and every card swipe still yours.

Sam Khan, founder. The Cyber Expert in times of peace.

Georgia, by the numbers

What the FBI, the state and the researchers counted, not what a vendor guessed.

$534.6M

lost to internet crime by Georgia victims in 2025, across 25,937 complaints

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Georgia state page, 2026

$85.8M

of that was business email compromise, the changed invoice and the changed wire, across 729 Georgia complaints

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Georgia state page, 2026

42%

of retail breaches start with an exploited software flaw, and 68% involve a third party such as a payment platform

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

The law and its clock

Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act (O.C.G.A. 10-1-912)

Notify affected Georgia residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay; no fixed day count and no Attorney General filing. Consumer reporting agencies when more than 10,000 residents are affected. A vendor holding data for you must tell you within 24 hours. Because the statute is narrow, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GLBA and your contracts usually carry more weight.

Regulator: Georgia Attorney General · source

Georgia Consumer Privacy Protection Act (SB 111, 2026)

Signed in the 2026 session, with secondary sources reporting a July 1, 2026 effective date; thresholds and the enrolled text should be read before you rely on them. The introduced text exempts HIPAA covered entities and business associates.

Regulator: Georgia Attorney General · source

The regulator has the final say. We help interpret, scope and get you ready; we do not certify.

It happened here

A LockBit ransomware attack on Fulton County government crippled phones, court filings, tax and other online services for weeks; officials said no ransom was paid and later approved an IT overhaul of roughly $10 million.

January 2024 · Associated Press

A ransomware incident took Henry County Schools in McDonough offline for roughly a month, with about 42,000 students working on paper while internet access was restored in phases.

November 2023 · 11Alive

We list public incidents to show the pattern, never to shame a victim. Any of them could be any of us.

Who we protect in Atlanta

Same controls, told from where it hurts for your business.

Medical and dental practices

What if the Sandy Springs office manager's inbox is the one that pays the vendors and holds the patient schedule?

Every workstation and the practice server watched around the clock, offline backups that restore charts in hours, MFA on every login, and a HIPAA risk analysis your license can stand on.

Georgia has 141 community hospitals, 29,151 active physicians and 5,320 active dentists (KFF), with the largest independent-practice base across the northern suburbs from Sandy Springs to Alpharetta.

How we protect medical and dental practices →

Multi-location retailers and restaurants

What if the card terminals in all three stores sit on the same network as the back-office PC that opens every email?

Card terminals segmented from everything else, point-of-sale and remote tools patched the week the fix ships, an agent on every register and back-office PC, and the PCI DSS self-assessment answered from evidence.

42% of retail breaches start with an exploited flaw and 68% involve a third party (Verizon 2026 DBIR), and Metro Atlanta's payments industry means the acquirer's questionnaire arrives on time every quarter.

How we protect multi-location retailers and restaurants →

Fintech, payments and financial firms

What if the bank partner wants SOC 2 and PCI evidence and ours is a folder of screenshots from last year?

One control set mapped to SOC 2, PCI DSS and GLBA, evidence collected continuously by the agent, and a named engineer who answers the partner's question about detecting intrusions with a log.

Fintech and payments is a Metro Atlanta Chamber key industry, and the financial sector is the most attacked by raw incident count (Verizon 2026 DBIR).

How we protect fintech, payments and financial firms →

Defense suppliers around Marietta

What if the prime asks for our NIST 800-171 score on Friday and the drawings live on a shared drive?

CUI in one controlled enclave, the 110 NIST SP 800-171 practices assessed and scored, a System Security Plan you can hand over, and an engineer watching logins so the prime hears about an attempt from you.

Georgia received $14.9 billion in defense spending in FY2024 (DoD REPI state fact sheet), and the C-130J line beside Dobbins Air Reserve Base anchors a large regional supplier chain.

How we protect defense suppliers around marietta →

Law firms

What if the wire instructions in the thread are real, but the thread has had a stranger in it since August?

Lookalike-domain filtering, a callback rule your paralegals practice, MFA on partner mailboxes, and an engineer who sees the login from the wrong country before the money moves.

Business email compromise cost Georgia $85.8 million across 729 complaints in 2025 (FBI IC3), and Midtown and Buckhead hold the firms that move client money daily.

How we protect law firms →

SaaS and technology companies

What if the enterprise customer wants SOC 2 before the round closes and nobody here has done one?

A control set mapped once to SOC 2 and the questionnaire, evidence collected continuously, and a named engineer who answers question 14 with a log, not a paragraph.

Tech Square in Midtown and the Alpharetta corridor feed a SaaS base that sells to enterprises, and enterprise buyers ask for SOC 2 before they sign.

How we protect saas and technology companies →

Medical, dental and other healthcare practices

In Atlanta an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from Buckhead to Sandy Springs and up GA-400 to Alpharetta, and sets up the critical controls and the protection agent the same week.

The critical security controls set up in the office, the protection agent on every workstation and the server, the staff trained the same week, and a HIPAA risk analysis that holds up. We work at your speed and we do not bill you per module.

Defense suppliers: Dobbins Air Reserve Base and the C-130J line in Marietta, Fort Eisenhower and the Georgia Cyber Center in Augusta, and Robins Air Force Base to the south make Georgia a defense state, with $14.9 billion in defense spending in FY2024 (DoD REPI). The July 2026 pause of the C3PAO mandate is not a pardon: NIST SP 800-171 stays in the contract, and we score you against its 110 practices before the prime asks.

Your staff, trained and scored

It is fine to skip the new Nigerian prince's email. Next time, press the report button too.

Your Decatur cashiers and your Alpharetta developers get the same short, scored training every month, built around what we see in Atlanta inboxes and on Atlanta phones that month. Phishing tests teach one habit above all: press the report button, and an engineer sees it. No per-module charges and no shaming for a click.

Short monthly training tied to the threats we are seeing this month, not a yearly video.
Scored per person and per team, so you know who needs a hand and nobody gets nickel-and-dimed for a module.
Phishing tests that teach the report habit; one report protects the whole company.

Enterprise-grade software, engineers who did this for the largest institutions, and a team that actually picks up the phone. We built this for the institutions that spend the most. We run it for you because we care about what you built.

What we do for a Atlanta business

Assess it, keep it compliant, protect it around the clock.

Assess

Cybersecurity and Data Protection Assessment (CDPA)

Where the money, the records and the drawings actually live, what would stop the business, and the ten fixes that matter first. Scored against the CIS Controls and whatever rules apply to you.

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Comply

Compliance, kept current

HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, PCI, the FTC Safeguards Rule, state privacy law: one control set, evidence produced once, ready the day a regulator, a prime or a customer asks.

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Protect

24/7 protection for every employee, endpoint, server and website

An AI security agent that contains a threat in seconds and a named human engineer who watches it, day and night. Think of it as a per-employee service, like payroll, except that cutting this corner is the one that can empty the account.

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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), simplified

The discipline the largest institutions run, sized for a business that cannot hire a department for it.

Governance, Risk and Compliance is how a bank or a hospital system decides what to protect, proves it is protected, and shows a regulator the evidence. We ran it for those institutions. We now run it for the 30-person supplier, the medical practice and the defense subcontractor, because that is where the supply chain is thinnest and where a breach does the most damage, sometimes to more than one company.

Governance

Who owns security, which policies are real, and what the owner signs. One page, not a binder.

Risk

What could stop the business, ranked by likelihood and cost, refreshed as the threats change, not once a year.

Compliance

The evidence a regulator, a prime contractor or a customer asks for, produced once and kept current every day.

A defense contractor with 40 people is a link in a national supply chain. A breach there is not a small-business story; it is a national-security one. The same is true, at a smaller scale, for the accounting firm that holds 900 client returns and the clinic that holds 12,000 patient records.

Questions Atlanta owners ask

What people in Atlanta search for, answered straight.

What does Georgia law require after a data breach?

Georgia's statute requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay and has no Attorney General filing, which makes it one of the narrower laws in the country. In practice HIPAA's 60-day clock, PCI DSS, the FTC Safeguards Rule and your customer contracts reach an Atlanta business first. We build one control set that answers all of them.

Do I need PCI compliance for three stores in Atlanta?

If you accept cards, yes, and your acquirer will ask for the self-assessment questionnaire every year. The controls that matter are segmenting the terminals from the office network, patching the point-of-sale and remote tools, and an agent on every register. We put those in and answer the questionnaire from evidence.

How much does SOC 2 cost for an Atlanta startup?

The auditor's fee is separate from the readiness work, and the readiness work is where the time goes. Our pricing is public, per employee for protection and a fixed fee for the assessment. A 30-minute demo scopes it, and the same agent that protects you collects the evidence the auditor wants.

How much does HIPAA compliance cost in Atlanta?

Our pricing is public: the risk analysis and the on-site setup are a fixed fee, and protection is priced per employee. A 30-minute demo scopes it for your practice, ITP or OTP, and the engineer who does the visit is the one you talk to afterward.

Is Georgia getting a privacy law?

Yes. SB 111, the Georgia Consumer Privacy Protection Act, was signed in the 2026 session, with an effective date reported as July 1, 2026. Read the enrolled text for the thresholds before relying on them; the introduced version exempted HIPAA covered entities. Most Atlanta practices will find HIPAA and PCI still matter more day to day.

We supply the prime in Marietta. What is CMMC and do we need it now?

If you handle controlled unclassified information you are a Level 2 supplier, and NIST SP 800-171 has been in your contract since 2017. The July 2026 pause of the C3PAO mandate does not change that. We assess the 110 practices, score you, write the System Security Plan and fix the gaps.

Sources: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Georgia · O.C.G.A. 10-1-912 · Georgia SB 111 tracker · Governor of Georgia, 2026 signed legislation · Metro Atlanta Chamber · DoD REPI, Georgia state facts · KFF, community hospitals · KFF, professionally active physicians · KFF, professionally active dentists · Associated Press, Fulton County · GovTech, Fulton County IT overhaul · 11Alive, Henry County Schools · Dobbins Air Reserve Base · FBI Atlanta Field Office · CISA Region 4 · Verizon 2026 DBIR

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