New York, New York · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week

New York runs on trust and wires. We make sure both reach the right bank.

A nine-lawyer practice on Madison, a two-chair dental office in Great Neck, an RIA in FiDi that owes DFS a certification every April. You spent years earning that trust on the LIRR and the Metro-North. Someone in another time zone is spending tonight trying to spend it. We watch while you sleep.

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Serving Midtown, the Financial District, Flatiron and Silicon Alley, Hudson Yards, Brooklyn and Queens, Great Neck and Lake Success, Garden City and White Plains and Westchester. Remote first, on site when it matters.

A New York story

The Tuesday the trust account wire changed its mind

the managing partner of a nine-lawyer real-estate practice on Madison Avenue

It is a Tuesday in October and the closing is at three. The managing partner runs a nine-lawyer practice on Madison Avenue, eleven floors up, and a $1.4 million payoff has to leave the trust account before the buyer's bank closes. The paralegal has done two hundred of these. She is good at them.

At 11:15 the seller's attorney sends updated wire instructions. Same thread, same signature block, same typo in the subject line he has used since August. The bad guy has been sitting in that lawyer's mailbox for three weeks, reading, waiting for a Tuesday like this one. He changed one thing at the bottom of the signature: the phone number.

She does what the firm's policy says and calls to confirm. A pleasant voice picks up on the second ring and confirms the new account.

She stops. She calls the number from the engagement letter instead, and a different attorney says he sent nothing this morning. The wire goes out at 2:50, to the right bank. Nobody has to explain to a client where his house money went.

Her cursor is on the release button when the firm's email filter flags the reply address as a lookalike domain registered nine days ago.

What changes the ending

Wire changes verified by phone to a number on file from the day the matter opened, never to a number in the email (CIS 14 Security Awareness and Skills Training).
Lookalike-domain and impersonation filtering on every mailbox, so the fake reply is flagged before a human has to catch it (CIS 9 Email and Web Browser Protections).
Phishing-resistant MFA and new-country login alerts on every mailbox, so nobody sits inside your email for three weeks (CIS 6 Access Control Management).

What price are you willing to pay to let fifteen years of building a practice in this city go away because someone overseas tricked one person on your team into clicking a link? The bad guy is patient and he works nights. We would rather you take the vacation you earned and land at JFK to find payroll still there and the trust account untouched.

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

New York, by the numbers

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

$1.226B

lost to internet crime by New York victims in 2025, across 45,258 complaints, fourth among the states

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, New York state page, 2026

$217.0M

of that was business email compromise, the changed wire and the fake invoice, across 1,634 New York complaints

Source: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, New York state page, 2026

62%

of breaches involve the human element: phishing, pretexting, a stolen password, a simple mistake

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

The law and its clock

New York SHIELD Act (General Business Law 899-aa and 899-bb)

Notify affected New York residents within 30 days of discovery (December 2024 amendment). Every breach affecting New York residents is reported to the Attorney General, the Department of State and the State Police; consumer reporting agencies when more than 5,000 residents are notified. Medical and health-insurance data counts as private information since March 21, 2025, and 899-bb requires reasonable safeguards regardless of size.

Regulator: New York Attorney General · source

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500)

Covered entities notify DFS within 72 hours of a cybersecurity incident and certify compliance every April 15. Since November 1, 2025 the final phase applies: MFA on every account and a full asset inventory. Limited-exempt small firms still owe MFA, the inventory, a risk assessment, vendor policy, training and the certification.

Regulator: New York Department of Financial Services · source

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

It happened here

New York Blood Center Enterprises detected a ransomware attack that disrupted operations during a declared blood emergency; about 193,822 people were later notified.

January 2025 · The Record

NYU's website was taken over for about two hours, exposing admissions data for more than 3 million applicants dating back to 1989.

March 2025 · Washington Square News

Columbia University disclosed a cyberattack in which a politically motivated actor stole applicant and student records; notifications covered 868,969 people.

June 2025 · Associated Press

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 New York

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

Medical and dental practices

What if the scheduling server in Great Neck is the only copy of twenty years of charts?

Offline backups tested on a schedule, the server and every workstation watched around the clock, MFA on every login, and a HIPAA risk analysis that also satisfies the SHIELD Act now that medical data counts as private information.

Education and health services is the largest private sector in the metro at 2,334,400 jobs, growing 3.9% a year (BLS, July 2026); New York has 85,904 active physicians and 14,159 active dentists (KFF).

How we protect medical and dental practices →

RIAs, broker-dealers, insurance agencies and lenders

What if DFS asks for the April certification and the asset inventory is a spreadsheet from 2023?

The Part 500 controls put in place and kept in place: MFA everywhere, the inventory, the risk assessment, vendor policy, training, 72-hour incident reporting handled by an engineer, and the April 15 certification backed by evidence, not hope.

Financial activities employ 842,700 people in the metro (BLS, July 2026), and every DFS licensee, including limited-exempt small firms, is a Part 500 covered entity.

How we protect rias, broker-dealers, insurance agencies and lenders →

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 that keeps strangers out of partner mailboxes, and an engineer who sees the login from the wrong country before closing day.

Business email compromise cost New York $217.0 million across 1,634 complaints in 2025 (FBI IC3), and real-estate closings are where the money moves fastest.

How we protect law firms →

Startups and software companies

What if the enterprise customer wants SOC 2 and the security questionnaire is due before the round closes?

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

The information sector employs 305,800 people in the metro (BLS, July 2026), from Flatiron to Hudson Yards, and enterprise buyers ask for SOC 2 before they sign.

How we protect startups and software companies →

Property managers and brokerages

What if the tenant portal, the rent roll and the vendor payments all sit behind one office manager's password?

MFA on every account, the portal and payment systems patched and watched, wire verification built into the process, and backups that survive a bad Tuesday.

Real estate, construction and property management are among the largest small-establishment sectors in the five boroughs, and 62% of breaches involve the human element (Verizon 2026 DBIR).

How we protect property managers and brokerages →

Medical, dental and other healthcare practices

In New York an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from Midtown to Great Neck and up to White Plains, 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: Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, West Point up the Hudson, and the Long Island aerospace cluster in Greenlawn, Farmingdale and Edgewood make CMMC a Nassau and Suffolk conversation. 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 Garden City receptionist and your FiDi analysts get the same short, scored training every month, built around the lures we are seeing in New York inboxes and on New York phones, where fake texts now land more often than email. The habit we teach is the report button: one press reaches an engineer and protects the whole firm. No per-module charges, 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 New York 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 New York owners ask

What people in New York search for, answered straight.

Does my small business have to comply with NYDFS Part 500?

If you hold a DFS license, insurance agency, mortgage broker, RIA registered with the state, lender, money transmitter, yes. Small firms can claim a limited exemption, but since November 1, 2025 they still owe MFA on every account, an asset inventory, a risk assessment, vendor policy, staff training and the April 15 certification. We put those controls in and produce the evidence.

How fast do I have to report a data breach in New York?

Within 30 days of discovery to affected residents under the December 2024 SHIELD Act amendment, and every breach affecting New York residents goes to the Attorney General, the Department of State and the State Police. DFS licensees have 72 hours to notify DFS. HIPAA adds its own 60-day clock for patient data.

How much does HIPAA compliance cost for a Manhattan or Long Island 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, and the engineer who does the visit is the one you talk to.

What does a cybersecurity company in New York actually do for a 20-person firm?

Three things. An assessment that finds where the money and the records live and the ten fixes that matter first. Compliance kept current, whether that is Part 500, HIPAA or a SOC 2 for the enterprise customer. And 24/7 protection: an agent on every device and a named engineer watching it, so the bad guy who logs in at 2 a.m. meets a human at 2:03.

What will my cyber insurer ask before renewing a New York policy?

MFA on email and remote access, endpoint detection on every device, tested offline backups, and staff training with a record. Those are the four questions that decide the premium. We put them in place and hand you the evidence the underwriter wants.

Can you come to our practice on Long Island or in Westchester?

Yes. Our engineers work on site from Great Neck and Garden City to White Plains, and remotely for the rest. The critical controls and the protection agent go in the same week as the risk analysis.

Sources: FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report, New York · NY General Business Law 899-aa · NY Attorney General, data breach reporting · NYDFS cybersecurity resource center · BLS, New York-Newark-Jersey City Economy at a Glance · KFF, professionally active physicians · KFF, professionally active dentists · The Record, New York Blood Center · Washington Square News, NYU · Associated Press, Columbia University · FBI New York Field Office · CISA Region 2 · Verizon 2026 DBIR

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