Cipher Ops Security Group
We deploy private cloud infrastructure and local AI systems for small businesses in sensitive industries — keeping your documents encrypted, your AI on-site, and your client data off outside servers. Permanently.
What We Offer
Every engagement is built around the same principle — your sensitive data stays under your control, on your hardware, in your office.
For any small business looking to save time and capture more revenue. We identify your biggest operational inefficiency and automate it — after-hours lead capture, quote follow-up sequences, appointment booking, and customer communication.
For law firms, accounting practices, and medical offices. We install a private encrypted NAS and a local AI assistant in your office. Your staff can query your own documents using natural language. Nothing touches outside servers — ever.
Everything in Tier 2 plus a physical security assessment, staff security awareness training, and compliance documentation review. For businesses with regulatory obligations — HIPAA, bar association data rules, or financial compliance requirements.
Why It Matters
82% using personal accounts. Shadow AI breaches cost organizations $670,000 more than standard incidents. Your staff is already using AI — the question is whether it's your AI or someone else's server.
In April 2026, an AI agent deleted an entire company's production database and all backups in nine seconds — autonomously, without authorization. When AI runs locally under your control, it cannot take destructive autonomous actions.
Cloud AI tools connected to your browser create attack surfaces. In April 2026, a developer's internal database was sold on BreachForums for $2M after an AI Chrome extension was compromised. Every cloud AI connection is another door into your data.
About
"I spent 20 years in NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism. I know what it means when sensitive information ends up in the wrong hands."
Cipher Ops Security Group was founded by Joseph Cortez — a retired NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Detective with 20 years of operational security experience, including work with large-scale data systems, threat assessment, and federal intelligence partnerships.
Today that background is applied to a different kind of threat: the growing risk of sensitive business data ending up on servers your business doesn't control, processed by AI your staff didn't authorize, managed by companies whose interests may not align with yours.
Our Difference
Your files live on their servers. Their employees can access them. Their servers get breached — your client data is exposed. Their terms allow document scanning.
Your files live on hardware in your building. Your encryption keys. Your access controls. A breach somewhere else is someone else's problem.
Get Started
We serve law firms, medical offices, accounting practices, and small businesses across New York, Tampa, and Orlando. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute consultation.