Security and automation for small regulated businesses, without replacing your IT provider
I help accounting, legal, medical, insurance, and financial firms find what is exposed, fix it, prove it to their insurer, and automate the manual work that touches sensitive data.
CISSP. 10+ years in IT, network, and security engineering. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Problems I solve
The insurer questionnaire you cannot answer with evidence
Renewal asks about MFA, backups, patching, and an incident plan, and wants proof. A yes on the form is not proof.
Unpatched devices nobody is watching
Laptops, servers, and network gear drift out of date between IT tickets. Nobody reports what is exposed this month.
Manual processes handling sensitive data
Client records and invoices move through inboxes and spreadsheets by hand. Every step is a chance for an error or a leak.
Three ways I can help
Each one is scoped on a call and quoted in writing. Start with whichever problem is costing you the most right now.
Managed Security
Monthly visibility into what is exposed, remediation on a schedule, and evidence built from the record. Works alongside your IT provider.
Monitor, Maintain, CertifyInsurance and Incident Readiness
Answer the insurer with an evidence pack built against their actual questionnaire, and rehearse a bad day before it happens.
Readiness and IR packageAutomation
Automate the manual work that touches sensitive data, with least privilege, logging, and a human approval step where it matters.
Audit, pilot, migration, retainersHow it works
Four steps from first contact to ongoing support. No prices on this site, because the scope depends on your environment.
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30-minute fit call
We confirm the problem, the environment, and whether I am the right person for it.
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Paid assessment
A baseline scan, a readiness gap analysis, or an automation audit, with a written report. Quoted in writing before it starts.
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Onboarding or build
Agent deployment and a first remediation sprint for managed security, or the build for automation.
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Ongoing reporting and support
Monthly posture reports and review calls, or support and monitoring for the workflows in scope.
Who you would be working with
One person, direct access, and systems I have actually built.
Daniel Avila, founder
- CISSP
- 10+ years in IT, network, and security engineering
- Solo practice: the person on the call does the work and writes the report
- Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, serving clients across the United States
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Compliance document generator
Guided intake that produces a complete, structured security plan from a fixed template set, with section-level validation and an audit trail of every edit.
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Bid and estimate automation
An n8n pipeline that turns a project request into a priced, formatted bid package for a specialty contractor, with human review before anything is sent. Piloted with a real contractor.
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Receipt to accounting pipeline
Receipts arriving by email or webhook are extracted by an LLM, filed to cloud storage, logged to a spreadsheet, and posted to accounting software. Write access is scoped to creating expense entries.
Who I work with
Small businesses that handle other people's money, health, or legal matters, and that get asked to prove their security.
- Accounting firms
- Law firms
- Medical practices
- Insurance agencies
- Financial institutions
- Manufacturers (office IT only)
Managed IT providers and insurance brokers: I partner with MSPs and brokers who need a security and readiness partner for their clients. Start a partner conversation.
Start with a 30-minute call
Tell me what is going on. I will say which service fits, or whether you need one at all, and follow up with a written proposal.