Los Angeles, California · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week

Los Angeles is built on relationships. We keep yours from walking out the door.

A surgery center off Beverly Grove, a machine shop on Aviation Boulevard that supplies a prime, a brokerage in Warner Center with 2,300 clients in one database. You earned all of it on the 405. Someone is working on taking it while you sit in the Sepulveda Pass. We are the team that works the other side of that, around the clock.

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Serving Downtown and Century City, the Westside and Santa Monica, Beverly Grove and Westwood, Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills, Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, Burbank, El Segundo and the South Bay and Long Beach. Remote first, on site when it matters.

A Los Angeles story

The Tuesday the book of business tried to leave through a personal inbox

the owner of a 35-person commercial insurance brokerage in Warner Center, Woodland Hills

It is a Tuesday in June, June Gloom still hanging over Warner Center at 4:40 in the afternoon. The owner built the brokerage over eighteen years, one renewal at a time, and 2,300 client accounts sit in the agency management system with premiums, renewal dates and every note an underwriter ever wrote.

A producer gave notice last week. His last day is Friday. A recruiter across the 101 has told him relationships travel, and he has decided to believe it. At 4:52 he exports the client list to a spreadsheet, every account he touched and eight hundred he never did, attaches it to an email to his personal address, and presses send.

The owner is on the 405 and knows none of this.

The engineer calls the owner at 5:01. Wednesday morning's conversation is about a log, not a suspicion. The producer leaves Friday with his memories and nothing else, and 2,300 clients get their renewal calls from the brokerage that earned them.

At 4:53 the send fails, and the only copy of the export sits in a quarantined folder with his name on it.

What changes the ending

A data-loss policy that stops client lists leaving by email, cloud drive or USB and tells a human the same minute (CIS 3 Data Protection).
Access that narrows the hour notice is given, so a departing employee can finish the job and nothing more (CIS 5 Account Management).
Audit logs kept and reviewed, so the conversation is about facts and the client list stays where it was earned (CIS 8 Audit Log Management).

What price are you willing to pay to let eighteen years of building in this city go away because someone overseas tricked one person on your team into clicking a link, or because one person decided the client list was theirs? We would rather you take the vacation you earned and land at LAX to find payroll still there and every client still yours.

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

California, by the numbers

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

$3.67B

lost to internet crime by California victims in 2025, across 116,423 complaints, the most of any state on both counts

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

200,000+

people whose information was exposed after 53 Los Angeles County health employees fell for one phishing campaign

Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 2024

31%

of breaches now start with an unpatched software flaw, ahead of stolen passwords for the first time

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

The law and its clock

California breach notification, Civil Code 1798.82 as amended by SB 446

Notify affected California residents within 30 calendar days of discovery (effective January 1, 2026). When more than 500 residents are notified, a sample notice goes to the Attorney General within 15 calendar days after resident notice.

Regulator: California Attorney General · source

CCPA/CPRA and the 2026 CPPA regulations

Risk assessments required from 2026 for covered businesses. Cybersecurity audit certifications first due April 1, 2028 for revenue above $100 million, April 1, 2029 for $50 million to $100 million, and April 1, 2030 below $50 million.

Regulator: California Privacy Protection Agency · source

Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Civil Code 56)

Applies to every provider regardless of size. Private right of action with $1,000 nominal damages per violation and administrative penalties up to $2,500 for a negligent disclosure, on top of HIPAA.

Regulator: California courts and the 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 phishing campaign captured the credentials of 53 Los Angeles County Department of Public Health employees, compromising personal information of more than 200,000 people.

February 2024 · Los Angeles County

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest trial court in the country, detected ransomware and closed all 36 courthouse locations.

July 2024 · Los Angeles Times

City of Hope in Duarte confirmed protected health information of 827,149 people was compromised in a cyberattack; an $8.5 million class settlement followed.

April 2024 · HIPAA Journal

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 Los Angeles

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

Medical, dental and surgery practices

What if one phishing email at the front desk exposes every chart, and the CMIA lawsuit arrives before the HIPAA letter?

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 that also answers California's 30-day clock and the CMIA.

Education and health services is the largest sector in the Los Angeles metro at 1,321,200 jobs, growing 4.1% a year (BLS, July 2026); California has 124,383 active physicians and 30,201 active dentists (KFF).

How we protect medical, dental and surgery practices →

Aerospace and defense suppliers

What if the prime in El Segundo asks for our NIST 800-171 score and the drawings live on a shared drive everyone can open?

CUI in one controlled enclave, the 110 NIST SP 800-171 practices assessed and scored, a System Security Plan you can hand over, and the shop watched around the clock so the prime hears about an attempt from you, with evidence.

Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo houses Space Systems Command, the space acquisition hub, and hundreds of machine shops and engineering firms in the South Bay and Antelope Valley supply the primes around it.

How we protect aerospace and defense suppliers →

Insurance brokerages and wealth managers

What if the client list is the business, and it fits in one spreadsheet?

A data-loss policy that stops the list leaving by email, drive or USB, access that narrows the day notice is given, logs that turn suspicion into facts, and MFA so an outsider cannot take what an insider would not.

Business email compromise cost California $430.7 million across 3,444 complaints in 2025 (FBI IC3), and the human element sits inside 62% of breaches (Verizon 2026 DBIR).

How we protect insurance brokerages and wealth managers →

Law firms

What if the wire instructions for the Century City closing came from a mailbox with a stranger in it?

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

Professional and business services employ 971,700 people in the metro (BLS, July 2026), and in professional services breaches credentials were stolen 31% of the time (Verizon 2026 DBIR).

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Media, post-production and software companies

What if the studio's security questionnaire asks how we detect unauthorized access and the honest answer is that we do not?

A control set mapped once to SOC 2 and the content-security questionnaires studios send, evidence collected continuously, and a named engineer who answers with a log.

The information sector employs 192,800 people in the metro (BLS, July 2026), and studio vendor reviews in Burbank, Culver City and Playa Vista now ask for proof, not promises.

How we protect media, post-production and software companies →

Medical, dental and other healthcare practices

In Los Angeles an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from Beverly Grove to Sherman Oaks and out to Pasadena, 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: Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, Naval Base Ventura County, Edwards and the Palmdale plants anchor the largest defense supplier base in the country, and the machine shops along Aviation Boulevard and Rosecrans hold the CUI. 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 Sherman Oaks front desk and your El Segundo estimators get the same short, scored training every month, built around what we see in Los Angeles inboxes and on Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles owners ask

What people in Los Angeles search for, answered straight.

What changed in California's data breach law in 2026?

SB 446 took effect January 1, 2026 and replaced the old "without unreasonable delay" standard with a hard 30-calendar-day deadline from discovery to notify affected residents. If more than 500 Californians are notified, a sample notice goes to the Attorney General within 15 days after that. A practice that finds out on a Tuesday now has a calendar, not a judgment call.

Does CCPA apply to my Los Angeles business?

CCPA reaches businesses above revenue and data-volume thresholds most small practices and firms are under, but the CMIA and HIPAA apply to every provider regardless of size, and the new CPPA audit rules phase in by revenue tier through 2030. We tell you in the first 30 minutes which of these actually applies to you, and build one control set for all of them.

How much does HIPAA compliance cost for a medical practice in Los Angeles?

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

We supply an El Segundo prime. What CMMC level do we need?

If you handle controlled unclassified information, drawings, specifications, test data, 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.

What does a cybersecurity company in Los Angeles do for a 25-person firm?

An assessment that finds where the money and the records live and the ten fixes that matter first. Compliance kept current, HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2 or a studio questionnaire. And 24/7 protection: an agent on every device and a named engineer watching it, so a login from the wrong country at 2 a.m. meets a human at 2:03.

Can you come on site in the Valley or the South Bay?

Yes. Our engineers work on site from Woodland Hills to Torrance and remotely for everything else. The critical controls and the protection agent go in the same week as the assessment.

Sources: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, California · SB 446 (2025) · California Attorney General breach reporting · CPPA regulations · CMIA overview (MIEC) · BLS, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Economy at a Glance · KFF, professionally active physicians · KFF, professionally active dentists · Los Angeles County, Public Health breach · Los Angeles Times, Superior Court ransomware · HIPAA Journal, City of Hope · FBI Los Angeles Field Office · CISA Region 9 · Verizon 2026 DBIR

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