Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC for businesses that cannot afford a bad week

Philadelphia built it the hard way. We keep it from leaving through an inbox.

A Center City law firm, a Main Line medical practice, a machine shop that feeds the Navy Yard: the region runs on businesses that hold other people's money and records. We protect them around the clock, with an engineer who answers, so the Schuylkill at 5 p.m. is the worst part of your day.

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Serving Center City, University City, the Navy Yard, the Main Line, King of Prussia, Conshohocken, Bucks County and Cherry Hill. Remote first, on site when it matters.

A Philadelphia story

The Tuesday the trust account almost left the building

the managing partner of a 14-lawyer firm on Market Street in Center City

It is the last Tuesday of the month and the firm's bookkeeper has a $640,000 settlement to wire out of the trust account by 4 p.m. The instructions came in that morning from opposing counsel, in the same email thread the two firms have used since March. The managing partner is in a deposition in Conshohocken and is not picking up.

Three weeks earlier the partner typed his email password into a page that looked like the court's e-filing portal. Nobody noticed, because nothing changed. Somebody in another time zone read his mail each night, learned the matter, learned the tone, and registered a domain one letter off from opposing counsel's. Then they waited for the settlement.

The bookkeeper prints the instructions and opens the bank portal. The beneficiary bank is in Texas, which is new, but the email explains that the client's firm changed banks. The amount is right. The matter number is right. It is 3:48 p.m.

Her finger is on the approve button when she decides to call opposing counsel at the number on the original engagement letter, and the receptionist tells her nobody there has sent new wire instructions.

What changes the ending

Multi-factor authentication on each mailbox, so a stolen password alone does not hand the partner's inbox to a stranger (CIS 6 Access Control Management)
Mail filtering that flags lookalike domains, and a firm rule that no wire instruction is accepted by email alone (CIS 9 Email and Web Browser Protections)
Staff trained on the exact con, wire-change fraud, and thanked for the callback that costs two minutes (CIS 14 Security Awareness and Skills Training)

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? My wife's business nearly went under from a payroll reroute, so I do not ask that lightly. We would rather you take the week at the Shore you earned, and come back up the Expressway to find payroll still there.

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

Pennsylvania, by the numbers

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

$537.8M

lost by Pennsylvania victims across 31,156 complaints to the FBI in one year

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

34.4%

rise in Pennsylvania losses from 2024, placing the state 6th nationally by complaints and 7th by losses

Source: WTAJ report on the IC3 2025 figures (2026)

$67.2M

lost to business email compromise in Pennsylvania across 810 complaints, the fraud aimed at trust accounts and payroll

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

The law and its clock

Pennsylvania Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (73 P.S. 2301-2329, as amended by Act 33 of 2024)

Notify affected residents without unreasonable delay. Since September 2024, notify the Attorney General when more than 500 Pennsylvania residents are affected, at the same time as consumer notice; notify consumer reporting agencies when more than 1,000 are affected; provide 12 months of credit monitoring when Social Security, driver's license or bank account numbers are involved. Medical and health-insurance information counts as personal information. Pennsylvania has no comprehensive consumer privacy law in force.

Regulator: Pennsylvania Attorney General · source

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

It happened here

Attackers had access to City of Philadelphia email accounts for two months, exposing health and personal information; notices went to 35,881 people the following summer.

May 2023 · The Philadelphia Inquirer

A ransomware attack on Crozer Health's parent forced the four Delaware County hospitals onto paper operations.

August 2023 · The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bucks County's computer-aided dispatch system was knocked offline for more than a week by ransomware; 911 call-taking continued by hand and the county did not pay.

January 2024 · NBC Philadelphia

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 Philadelphia

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

Medical and dental practices

Crozer went to paper for weeks. My four-doctor practice on the Main Line could not survive four days. What is different about us?

The EHR server, each workstation and the backups, watched around the clock, with a HIPAA risk analysis done on site so it reflects the practice as it runs, not as the template imagines it.

Health care is the region's largest employer at 749,300 education and health services jobs, about a quarter of all work in the metro (BLS, July 2026), with a large base of independent practices across the collar counties.

How we protect medical and dental practices →

Law firms

If a wire leaves our IOLTA account on a forged instruction, is that our malpractice carrier's problem or mine?

Partner mailboxes with multi-factor authentication, lookalike-domain filtering, and a wire-verification rule trained into the bookkeeper and the paralegals before the settlement lands.

Pennsylvania businesses lost $67.2 million to business email compromise in 2025 (FBI IC3, 2026), and Center City firms hold trust accounts for exactly the transactions that fraud targets.

How we protect law firms →

Defense suppliers

We sell to DLA Troop Support at the Navy Yard and Boeing in Ridley Park. Which CMMC level are they going to ask us for?

An honest NIST 800-171 score, a system security plan and the controls kept running between assessments, so a prime's questionnaire is a form you fill in, not a fire drill.

DLA Troop Support and NSWC Philadelphia at the Navy Yard, Boeing Defense in Ridley Park and Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia anchor one of the largest small-business defense supply bases in the Northeast (research desk, 2026).

How we protect defense suppliers →

Accounting and advisory firms

The FTC Safeguards Rule says we need a written security program. What does that actually look like for a 12-person firm in Bala Cynwyd?

A written program that fits your size, client files encrypted and access-controlled, and the monitoring that turns the Safeguards Rule from a binder into something that runs.

Professional and business services account for 501,500 jobs in the metro (BLS, July 2026), and the FTC Safeguards Rule applies to any firm that prepares returns.

How we protect accounting and advisory firms →

Schools and colleges

Bucks County lost its dispatch system for a week. What would our district lose, and for how long?

Internet-facing systems patched on a schedule, student and staff records backed up off the network, and an engineer watching the network over the summer when nobody else is.

Higher education is the region's second-largest sector, and public bodies in Pennsylvania face a seven-business-day notice clock under the state breach law (research desk, 2026).

How we protect schools and colleges →

Medical, dental and other healthcare practices

In Philadelphia an AccuSights cybersecurity engineer comes to the practice, from the Main Line to Bucks County, 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: The Navy Yard, with DLA Troop Support and NSWC Philadelphia, plus Boeing in Ridley Park and Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, buy from hundreds of small shops in Delaware, Montgomery and Chester counties. We get a supplier to a true NIST 800-171 score and keep the controls in place, 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 paralegals in Center City and your front desk in Wayne get the same short monthly training, built around the lures hitting Pennsylvania inboxes 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 firm. 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 Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia owners ask

What people in Philadelphia search for, answered straight.

How much does a cybersecurity assessment cost in Philadelphia?

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

What does Pennsylvania law require after a data breach?

Notify affected residents without unreasonable delay. Since Act 33 of 2024 took effect in September 2024, you also notify the Attorney General when more than 500 Pennsylvania residents are affected, and offer 12 months of credit monitoring when Social Security, license or bank account numbers were exposed. State agencies and their contractors have seven business days.

Does my medical practice on the Main Line need a HIPAA risk analysis?

Yes. The HIPAA Security Rule requires a documented risk analysis for any practice that holds electronic patient records, and it is the first document an investigator requests. We do it on site in Bryn Mawr, Ardmore or Wayne, alongside the controls, so it reflects the office as it actually runs.

We supply the Navy Yard or Boeing Ridley Park. Do we need CMMC?

If drawings or specifications marked CUI cross your desk, 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 still ask for the score and the system security plan. Get the score honest before the next purchase order depends on it.

How do Philadelphia law firms protect trust-account wires?

Three things stop most of it: multi-factor authentication on partner mailboxes, filtering that flags lookalike sender domains, and a firm rule that no wire instruction is acted on without a callback to a known number. Pennsylvania businesses lost $67.2 million to this fraud in 2025. The callback takes two minutes.

Do you come on site in the collar counties and South Jersey?

Yes. For practices and clinics an engineer comes to the office, from King of Prussia to Doylestown to Cherry Hill, and sets up the controls and the protection agent the same week. Other businesses run remote first, and the 24/7 monitoring works the same either way.

Sources: FBI IC3 2025, Pennsylvania · WTAJ on Pennsylvania's IC3 rank · Pennsylvania Act 94 of 2005 · BLS Philadelphia economy at a glance · Inquirer on the city email breach · Inquirer on Crozer Health · NBC Philadelphia on Bucks County dispatch · NSWC Philadelphia · DLA Troop Support · FBI Philadelphia · CISA Region 3

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