Miami, Florida · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week
Miami money moves fast. We make sure it moves to the right bank.
A title agency on Ponce de Leon with three closings before the afternoon storm, a dental practice in Kendall, a freight forwarder in Doral. You built it on the Palmetto and the Dolphin. Someone in another hemisphere has been reading a mailbox since June, waiting for closing day. We watch the other side of that, around the clock.
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Serving Brickell and Downtown, Coral Gables, Doral, Aventura, Miami Beach, Kendall, Hialeah and Fort Lauderdale. Remote first, on site when it matters.
A Miami story
The Tuesday the payoff wire tried to change banks
the owner of a title and closing agency on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables
It is a Tuesday in July on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, the afternoon storm is on schedule, and the agency has three closings before five. The owner has run the place for fourteen years. The big one is a house in Pinecrest, with a $612,000 payoff going to the seller's lender.
The bad guy has been reading the closer's mailbox since June. He got in with a password from an old breach, and he set a rule that moves anything mentioning "payoff" to a folder nobody looks at. This morning he sends updated payoff instructions from the lender's real thread, on the lender's real letterhead.
At 2:38 the closer has the wire keyed to the new account, and the owner is the second approval.
She does not approve. She calls the lender on the number from the payoff statement, and the payoff account has not changed since March. The wire goes to the right bank at 3:15. The password gets changed, the rule gets deleted, and a family in Pinecrest gets its keys on time.
The owner's phone shows the 9:10 alert from our engineer: a forwarding rule created on the closer's mailbox at 3 a.m. from a country the agency has never closed a deal in.
What changes the ending
Alerts on new inbox rules, forwarding and logins from new countries, read by a human the same morning (CIS 8 Audit Log Management).
Two people and a callback to a number on file before any wire leaves, with no exceptions for closing day (CIS 14 Security Awareness and Skills Training).
MFA on every mailbox and passwords checked against known breaches, so an old leak does not open the escrow account (CIS 5 Account Management).
What price are you willing to pay to let fourteen years of building in this city go away because someone overseas tricked one person on your team into clicking a link? A hurricane gives you three days of warning. This gives you none. We would rather you take the vacation you earned and land at MIA to find payroll still there and every closing funded.
Sam Khan, founder. The Cyber Expert in times of peace.
Florida, by the numbers
What the FBI, the state and the researchers counted, not what a vendor guessed.
$1.596B
lost to internet crime by Florida victims in 2025, across 71,845 complaints, third among the states
Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, Florida state page, 2026
$1.2M
paid by the City of Fort Lauderdale to a scammer posing as its police-headquarters contractor after one fake invoice
Source: CBS News Miami, 2023
69%
of ransomware victims refused to pay, and the median ransom paid fell to $139,875; tested backups are why
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
The law and its clock
Florida Information Protection Act (Fla. Stat. 501.171)
Notify affected individuals as expeditiously as practicable and no later than 30 days after determining a breach, with one 15-day extension for good cause. Written notice to the Department of Legal Affairs within 30 days for any breach affecting 500 or more Floridians; consumer reporting agencies above 1,000; third-party agents tell the covered entity within 10 days. Late notice carries civil penalties up to $500,000 per breach.
Regulator: Florida Attorney General (Department of Legal Affairs) · source
Florida Digital Bill of Rights (Fla. Stat. 501.701 to 501.722)
In force since July 1, 2024. The controller duties apply to businesses above $1 billion in global revenue that meet further tests, so most South Florida firms are outside them; the sensitive-data consent and children's provisions reach further. Attorney General enforcement, penalties up to $50,000 per violation.
The regulator has the final say. We help interpret, scope and get you ready; we do not certify.
It happened here
The City of Fort Lauderdale paid $1.2 million to a scammer posing as its police-headquarters contractor after a fake invoice; the money was recovered the following January.
A cyberattack shut North Miami City Hall for about a week and disrupted essential services; the mayor traced it to unauthorized access to his email account and described it as ransomware.
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 Miami
Same controls, told from where it hurts for your business.
Medical, dental and aesthetic practices
What if the Kendall 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 that also answers FIPA's 30-day clock.
Florida has 229 community hospitals, 67,799 active physicians and 12,252 active dentists (KFF), and Miami's independent practices run from Aventura and Miami Beach down to Kendall and Hialeah.
What if the payoff instructions in the thread are real, but the thread has had a stranger in it since June?
Alerts on new inbox rules and logins from new countries read by a human the same morning, a callback rule your closers practice, two approvals on every wire, MFA on every mailbox, and passwords checked against known breaches.
Business email compromise cost Florida $187.3 million across 2,025 complaints in 2025 (FBI IC3), and South Florida closings are where the money moves fastest.
What if the custodian's questionnaire asks how we detect an intrusion and the honest answer is that we do not?
The questionnaire answered from evidence the agent collects, client data encrypted behind access by name, MFA everywhere, and a written program that satisfies the FTC Safeguards Rule.
Brickell is called Wall Street South for a reason, and the financial sector is the most attacked by raw incident count, with a quarter of breaches exposing client credentials that get reused elsewhere (Verizon 2026 DBIR).
What if the trust account wire goes out on the word of a pleasant voice at a number in the email?
Lookalike-domain filtering, a callback rule to numbers on file, MFA on partner mailboxes, and an engineer who sees the login from the wrong country before the money moves.
Coral Gables and Brickell hold the immigration, trade and real-estate firms that move client money daily, and 62% of breaches involve the human element (Verizon 2026 DBIR).
What if the card terminals at the front desk sit on the same network as the office PC that opens every email?
Card terminals on their own network segment, point-of-sale and booking systems patched and watched, a PCI DSS self-assessment answered from evidence, and staff trained on the phone call as well as the inbox.
Hospitality and tourism is a Beacon Council target industry for Miami-Dade, and 68% of retail breaches involve a third party such as a payment or booking platform (Verizon 2026 DBIR).
What if the contracting officer asks for our NIST 800-171 score and we have never been assessed?
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 around the clock.
U.S. Southern Command in Doral and Homestead Air Reserve Base anchor a services-contractor base, and Florida's defense industry accounts for $102.6 billion in statewide impact (FloridaCommerce, 2024 update).
In Miami an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from Aventura to Coral Gables and down to Kendall, 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: U.S. Southern Command in Doral and Homestead Air Reserve Base support a services and IT contractor base that handles CUI without a factory floor. 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 contracting officer 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 Kendall front desk and your Brickell analysts get the same short, scored training every month, built around what we see in South Florida inboxes and on South Florida phones that month, in English and Spanish where the team needs it. 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 Miami 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.
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.
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.
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 Miami owners ask
What people in Miami search for, answered straight.
How do I protect a real estate closing wire in Miami?→
Two people approve every wire, and the second one calls a number on file from the day the file opened, never a number in the email. Behind that, MFA on every mailbox, alerts on new inbox rules and logins from new countries, and passwords checked against known breaches. Fort Lauderdale lost $1.2 million to one fake invoice in 2023; the callback is what would have stopped it.
What is FIPA and what is the 30-day rule?→
The Florida Information Protection Act requires notice to affected individuals within 30 days of determining a breach, notice to the Attorney General within 30 days when 500 or more Floridians are affected, and it fines late notice up to $500,000 per breach. Vendors holding your data must tell you within 10 days. HIPAA adds its own 60-day clock for patient data.
Does Florida have a cybersecurity safe harbor law?→
No. The 2024 bill that would have given businesses immunity for keeping a recognized security program passed both chambers and was vetoed. Florida businesses are judged on what they actually had in place, which is one more reason to have the CIS Controls in place and documented.
How much does HIPAA compliance cost for a Miami medical practice?→
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, from Aventura to Kendall, and the engineer who does the visit is the one you talk to afterward.
What do SOUTHCOM contractors need for CMMC?→
If your contract includes controlled unclassified information, you are a Level 2 supplier and NIST SP 800-171 has applied since 2017. The July 2026 pause of the C3PAO mandate does not remove that. We assess the 110 practices, score you, write the System Security Plan and fix the gaps.
Does hurricane season change my cyber plan?→
It should be the same plan. The generator-and-shutters ritual you already run every June is disaster recovery, and ransomware is the storm that gives no warning. We test the offline backup on a schedule you can watch, so the practice reopens after either kind of bad week.
Let's talk about your cyber anxieties. Thirty minutes, an engineer, no pitch deck.
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