Denver, Colorado · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week

Denver builds for the long view. We protect thirty years of it around the clock.

An architecture studio in RiNo with three decades of drawings on one server, a dental practice in Highlands Ranch, a space-hardware supplier in Littleton with Lockheed drawings marked CUI: the Front Range is full of work that took years to build and would take one Tuesday to lose. We watch it around the clock, with an engineer who answers, so the Friday drive up I-70 is the only thing you worry about.

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Serving LoDo, RiNo, the Denver Tech Center, Cherry Creek, Aurora, Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Boulder. Remote first, on site when it matters.

A Denver story

The Tuesday thirty years of drawings became a text file

the founding principal of a 22-person architecture studio in RiNo

It is a Tuesday in late October, snow forecast for Thursday, and the founding principal is at her desk in RiNo at 6 p.m. pulling drawings from 1996 for a renovation on Capitol Hill. The studio has drawn schools, clinics and a good share of the Highlands since 1994. All of it lives on one project server in the back room: thirty years, 31 terabytes.

Two weeks earlier a project manager clicked a link that looked like a shared model from the structural engineer and typed his password into a page that looked like the file portal. The studio's remote access had no second factor. Somebody in another country logged in as him that night and started reading.

They found the server, the file shares and the external drive labeled BACKUP plugged into the same machine. They took their time. On Tuesday afternoon, while the studio was in a design review, they started the encryption from the newest folders back.

At 6:40 p.m. she opens the 1996 folder and each drawing has a new file extension, and beside them sits one text file that begins with the word Hello.

What changes the ending

Backups that live off the network, in a second place, and are tested by restoring a real project, so thirty years is a rebuild, not a ransom (CIS 11 Data Recovery)
Multi-factor authentication on remote access and on the file portal, so a stolen password opens nothing on its own (CIS 6 Access Control Management)
A protection agent on the server and each workstation that stops mass encryption in its first seconds and pages an engineer, at 6 p.m. or at 3 a.m. (CIS 10 Malware Defenses)

What price are you willing to pay to let ten years of building go away because someone overseas tricked one person on your team into clicking a link? In Denver it is often thirty years, because the drawings and the patient charts go back that far. We would rather you take the week in the mountains you earned, and come down I-70 on Sunday night to find payroll still there.

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

Colorado, by the numbers

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

$355.0M

lost by Colorado victims across 18,847 complaints to the FBI in one year

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Colorado state page (2026)

17th

Colorado's national rank for losses, with about $145 million of it taken from residents over 60

Source: The Journal and CPR reports on the IC3 2025 figures (2026)

$52.5M

lost to business email compromise in Colorado across 614 complaints, the fraud that reroutes payroll and wires

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Colorado state page (2026)

The law and its clock

Colorado data breach notification law (C.R.S. 6-1-716)

Notify affected residents in the most expedient time possible and no later than 30 days after determining a breach. Notify the Colorado Attorney General within the same 30 days when the breach is reasonably believed to affect 500 or more Colorado residents.

Regulator: Colorado Attorney General, Consumer Protection Section · source

Colorado Privacy Act (C.R.S. 6-1-1301 et seq.)

In force and amended. Biometric amendments effective July 2025 require consent for biometric identifiers, a written biometric policy and employee consent; minors' online privacy amendments took effect October 2025.

Regulator: Colorado Attorney General · source

Colorado AI Act (SB24-205)

The effective date was moved from February 2026 to June 30, 2026 by SB25B-004. Developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems carry duties around discrimination risk, notices and impact assessments; check the current session for further amendment before relying on any detail.

Regulator: Colorado Attorney General · source

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

It happened here

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing notified more than 4.6 million people that their data was exposed through a contractor's MOVEit file-transfer software.

August 2023 · HIPAA Journal

The Colorado Office of the State Public Defender took its systems offline after a ransomware attack, locking public defenders statewide out of case files for weeks.

February 2024 · The Denver Post

The Colorado Department of Higher Education disclosed a ransomware incident that exposed 16 years of student and educator records, including Social Security numbers.

August 2023 · The Record

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 Denver

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

Medical and dental practices

The state Medicaid agency lost 4.6 million records through a vendor. My practice uses six vendors. Which one is my breach?

The practice server and each workstation watched around the clock, vendor access reviewed and logged, backups that restore, and a HIPAA risk analysis done on site.

Education and health services employ 228,000 people in the metro and grew 3.7% in a year (BLS, July 2026); Colorado has 4,042 active dentists (KFF, 2024).

How we protect medical and dental practices →

Architecture and engineering studios

Thirty years of drawings are on one server in the back room. If it is encrypted on a Tuesday, what do I have on Wednesday?

Backups off the network and tested by restoring a real project, multi-factor authentication on remote access, and an agent that stops encryption in its first seconds.

Professional and business services is the metro's largest sector at 318,300 jobs (BLS, July 2026), and the 2026 DBIR counted 2,558 confirmed breaches in professional services, with credentials stolen in 31% of them.

How we protect architecture and engineering studios →

Aerospace and defense suppliers

Lockheed in Littleton and the Space Force in Colorado Springs want our NIST 800-171 score. Where does a 25-person shop start?

An honest NIST 800-171 score, a system security plan and the controls kept running between assessments, so the next PO is not the one you lose.

Colorado markets itself as the nation's second-largest aerospace economy, with Lockheed Martin Space, BAE Systems Space, Sierra Space, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman above hundreds of small suppliers along the Front Range (research desk, 2026).

How we protect aerospace and defense suppliers →

Financial firms and advisors

A client says we emailed them new wiring instructions. We did not. What happened?

Mailboxes with multi-factor authentication, lookalike-domain filtering, callback rules for any payment change, and monitoring that catches a login from the wrong continent.

Colorado businesses reported $52.5 million in business email compromise losses in 2025 (FBI IC3, 2026), and the metro holds 113,800 financial activities jobs in the Tech Center and downtown (BLS, July 2026).

How we protect financial firms and advisors →

Software and AI companies

Does the Colorado AI Act apply to a 40-person company that uses AI in hiring screens?

A written AI governance program that fits your size, the risk assessments and notices the law expects, and the security controls that SOC 2 and enterprise customers ask for at the same time.

The Colorado AI Act took effect June 30, 2026 (SB25B-004), and the 2026 DBIR found 45% of employees now use AI regularly on work devices, two thirds through personal accounts.

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Medical, dental and other healthcare practices

In Denver an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from Cherry Creek to Highlands Ranch, 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: Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, and Peterson, Schriever, Fort Carson and the Academy an hour south, sit above a supplier base fed by Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, BAE Systems Space in Boulder and Westminster, Sierra Space in Louisville and Raytheon in Aurora. We get a supplier to a true NIST 800-171 score and keep the controls running, because the DoD paused the assessment mandate in July 2026 but the primes did not pause their questionnaires.

Your staff, trained and scored

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

Your project managers in RiNo and your front desk in Parker get the same short monthly training, built around the lures hitting Colorado inboxes and phones this month, and each person is scored so you know who needs a hand. The report button sits in the mail client; one press protects the whole studio. We do not charge per module or per test.

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 Denver 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 Denver owners ask

What people in Denver search for, answered straight.

How much does a cybersecurity assessment cost in Denver?

Our pricing is public on the site, and a 30-minute demo scopes it to your studio, practice or shop. The Cyber and Data Protection Assessment is priced by size and by the rules that apply to you, HIPAA, CMMC, the Colorado Privacy Act or none. You get a scored report and the ten fixes that matter first.

What does Colorado law require after a data breach?

C.R.S. 6-1-716 gives you 30 days from determining a breach to notify affected residents, and the Attorney General gets notice in the same 30 days when 500 or more Coloradans are affected. That is one of the shorter clocks in the country. A practice also has HIPAA's own notification rules on top.

Does the Colorado AI Act apply to my small business?

If you deploy a high-risk AI system, one that makes or substantially shapes decisions about employment, lending, housing, healthcare or similar, duties attach regardless of size, with some lighter obligations for smaller deployers. The effective date moved to June 30, 2026. We map where AI touches consequential decisions in your business and write the program that fits.

We supply Lockheed in Littleton or a Colorado Springs command. Do we need CMMC?

If drawings or specifications marked CUI reach your shop, your contract already requires NIST 800-171 and a score posted in SPRS. The DoD paused the third-party assessment mandate in July 2026, but the primes did not pause their questionnaires. A pause is not a pardon; get the score honest before the next PO depends on it.

Do you come on site for a dental practice in Highlands Ranch or Lakewood?

Yes. An engineer comes to the office, from Cherry Creek to Castle Rock, sets up the critical controls and the protection agent on each workstation and the server, and trains the staff the same week. The HIPAA risk analysis is done there, so it reflects the practice as it runs.

What should an architecture studio do about its drawing archive?

Three things: a backup that lives off the network and off site, restored from on a schedule so you know it works; multi-factor authentication on remote access and the file portal; and an agent on the server that stops encryption in its first seconds. Colorado's Public Defender lost weeks of access to case files in 2024. A studio can lose decades.

Sources: FBI IC3 2025, Colorado · The Journal on Colorado's IC3 rank · CPR on senior fraud losses · C.R.S. 6-1-716 · Colorado AG data protection laws · HB24-1130 biometric amendments · SB25B-004 AI Act delay · BLS Denver economy at a glance · KFF active dentists · Verizon 2026 DBIR · HIPAA Journal on the HCPF breach · Denver Post on the Public Defender attack · The Record on the CDHE breach · FBI Denver · CISA Region 8

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