§ 01
41%
Cyber-liability carriers denied cyber applications on first submission in 2025.
Source: Woodruff Sawyer, 2025 Cyber Insurance Market Report.
§ 00 Corpus Christi, TX · Coastal Bend
Enterprise security,
neighborhood scale.
Compliance-first cybersecurity for small healthcare practices, CPA and law firms, and the professional-services businesses across the Coastal Bend. Written, measured, defensible work — not slide decks.
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30+
Years enterprise depth
02 / 04
3
Sector briefs · healthcare · law · CPA
03 / 04
1
Principal signs every deliverable
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0
Fear-based marketing
§ 00.1 The 2026 environment
Three numbers that changed the conversation.
§ 02
58%
Share of all cyber insurance claims in 2025 driven by business email compromise (BEC) and funds-transfer fraud (FTF), together.
Source: Coalition, 2026 Cyber Claims Report.
§ 03
$1.25M
Average fraudulent wire transfer in 2024, with a median 18-day detection lag against a 72-hour reporting window.
Source: BakerHostetler, 2026 Data Security Incident Response Report.
§ 01 What we do
Three tiers. Sequential, not a bundle.
Tier 1 produces the signed risk analysis your carrier and your attorney want to see. Tier 2 closes the gaps it finds. Tier 3 keeps them closed. Most engagements start at Tier 1.
Tier 1 § 01
Security risk analysis
A formal written risk analysis that satisfies HIPAA Security Rule § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A), supports cyber-liability applications, and identifies remediation priorities your broker can underwrite against.
- Signed risk analysis
- Plan of Action & Milestones
- Control inventory
- Broker-ready exhibits
Tier 2 § 02
Remediation implementation
Hands-on deployment of the controls carriers and regulators require: MFA on every account, EDR on every endpoint, hardened backups on a separate system, email security, staff training, and an incident response plan.
- MFA · EDR · backups
- DMARC · email hardening
- Patch cadence documented
- IR plan + tabletop
Tier 3 § 03
Ongoing managed security
Continuous monitoring, alert response, monthly reporting, annual risk-analysis refresh, and incident response on retainer. The phone number you actually call at 2am.
- 24/7 monitoring
- Monthly report
- Annual RA refresh
- IR on retainer
§ 02 What we measure
Eight controls. Every engagement.
Every Tier-1 risk analysis documents the same eight controls, in the same structure, against the same four questions. No bespoke methodology per client. The rigor is in the repetition. The status column below is illustrative — real findings are signed, dated, and carry through to the Plan of Action & Milestones.
| § No. | Control | Category | Status | Common gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| § 01 | Multi-factor authentication | Identity & Access | FULL | SMS-only on firewall console |
| § 02 | Endpoint detection & response | Endpoint | PARTIAL | Legacy imaging host excluded |
| § 03 | Hardened backups | Data Recovery | GAP | Backup on same subnet as prod |
| § 04 | Incident response plan | Response | PARTIAL | No tabletop in 14 months |
| § 05 | Email security | Communication | FULL | DMARC at `p=none`, not enforced |
| § 06 | Patching | Operations | GAP | Windows 10 past end-of-support |
| § 07 | Risk analysis | Governance | FULL | Four-page checklist from 2021 |
| § 08 | BA oversight / wire integrity | Funds-Transfer | GAP | Payroll change verified by reply email |
§ 02.1 Deliverables you can show your broker
Five codified artifacts. Signed, dated, versioned.
Every DIAM engagement produces written, measurable deliverables — not slide decks. The same five artifacts recur across engagements, and each is built against the same LaTeX class so a carrier portal, a broker inbox, and the client's attorney all read the same file.
- Sector brief
- A broker-facing brief per sector — healthcare, law, or CPA — explaining the 2026 underwriting environment and the eight controls carriers ask about.
- Risk analysis / WISP
- A 20–40 page signed document that satisfies 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) for healthcare or 16 CFR § 314.3 for CPA firms, and sits inside a cyber application without translation.
- IR plan
- A 5–15 page incident response plan naming carrier, counsel, forensics partner, and the first-call phone tree. Tabletop-tested. For law firms: tied to ABA Formal Opinion 483.
- Engagement letter
- Scope, assumptions, exclusions, and signature block. The engagement is defined before the work starts.
- Proposal
- Tier 1, 2, or 3 — fixed fee, written deliverables, and a timeline the client can forward to their accountant.
§ 03 The practice
One principal.
Signs every deliverable.
Roland Rodriguez. United States Air Force veteran, Military Space Systems Operations. Principal Technical Product Manager at AWS, 2022–2024, responsible for the five-year Rust adoption strategy across infrastructure serving 300M+ customer accounts. Core team for the Azure v1 launch at Microsoft, 2009.
The practice is delivered not by a local IT shop that added "cybersecurity" to its services menu, but by a principal whose prior work sits inside the infrastructure small practices already depend on.
The company is named for my four children — Damian, Isabella, Abigail, Matilda. The logo is those letters in ASCII binary. Every deliverable ships with their names behind it.
§ 04 For cyber-liability brokers
A technical partner for the application your client can't answer.
Carriers denied 41% of cyber applications on first submission in 2025. The denial pattern is nearly always the same across healthcare, law, and CPA books: the application attests to a control that is not actually in place — MFA on every account, immutable backups, a documented incident response plan, a callback procedure before every wire. DIAM produces the written evidence that either supports the attestation or tells the client what to fix first.
- Referral flow
- Send the application or the declination letter. I reply inside one business day with a scoping note the client can read without translation.
- What the client gets
- A signed written risk analysis, a POA&M, and carrier-ready exhibits. Every deliverable is versioned and attorney-reviewable.
- What you get back
- A factual readout on the application gaps, the remediation path, and the timeline. No markup on anything. No referral fee that goes sideways.
- Consult
- Free 30-minute consultations for broker referrals. No obligation, no sales pitch.
§ 05 Get in touch
Call the number.
I answer it.
Send the carrier application, the declination letter, or the rough idea. Broker referrals get a free 30-minute consultation — no obligation, no sales pitch. I'll reply within one business day with a scoping note.
Email
roland@diamsec.com
Phone
361-419-7579
Office
615 N Upper Broadway St, Ste 639
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Corpus Christi, TX 78401