Cybersecurity built on an investigator's instincts.
Queen City Cyber brings law-enforcement investigative experience and corporate security leadership to the small businesses big firms overlook. One accountable expert — assessments, incident response, forensics, and training.
Four ways we protect your business
No jargon, no scare tactics, no upsell to tools you don't need. Every engagement ends with a plain-English report and a clear next step.
Security Assessments
Find the gaps before someone else does. We examine your networks, devices, accounts, and day-to-day practices, then hand you a prioritized, plain-English plan — what to fix first, what can wait, and what's already fine.
Schedule an assessment →Incident Response
Locked out, funds missing, or something just feels off? Fast triage to contain the damage, determine what happened, and get you back to business — with documentation you can hand to insurers, banks, or law enforcement.
Get help now →Digital Forensics
Evidence handled the way an investigator handles it. Recovery and analysis of devices, email, and records for internal matters, disputes, and legal proceedings — documented with proper chain of custody throughout.
Discuss a case →Security Training
Your people are your perimeter. Practical sessions for owners and staff on phishing, payment fraud, passwords, and safe habits — built for real workdays, not a compliance checkbox.
Book a session →
The person behind the badge
Queen City Cyber was founded on a straightforward idea: small businesses deserve the same caliber of security expertise that large corporations pay for — from someone who picks up the phone.
Before consulting, our founder spent years in law enforcement, investigating cases where the details decide the outcome, and went on to lead corporate security teams, protecting organizations from threats that never make the news. That combination — investigative discipline and business-world pragmatism — shapes every engagement.
When you call Queen City Cyber, you get the investigator. Not an account manager, not a call center, not a junior tech reading a script.
"Too small to be a target" isn't true anymore
Attacks are automated
Criminals don't choose targets — software does. Scanners probe every business connected to the internet, and a five-person shop looks the same as a Fortune 500 to a bot. Size doesn't hide you.
Small means fewer defenses
Attackers know small businesses rarely have an IT department, let alone a security one. That makes you the easier score — the unlocked car in the parking lot.
Recovery is the expensive part
Downtime, lost records, wire fraud, and lost customer trust cost far more than prevention ever will. An afternoon of assessment is cheaper than a week of being locked out of your own books.
AI is already in your business — plan or no plan
Your people are probably using AI tools already, and attackers are certainly using them against you. We help you keep the upside without the exposure — honest risk assessments, sensible policy, and training that treats your staff like adults.
Putting AI to work, safely
The risk usually isn't the tool — it's what gets pasted into it, and where that information ends up once it's there.
- What's safe to share with a chatbot — and what quietly becomes someone else's training data
- Shadow AI: finding out which tools your staff already rely on
- Vetting AI vendors before you hand them customer or financial records
- Short, written policies your team will actually follow
When AI becomes the weapon
The same tools that draft your emails help criminals write sharper scams — and clone voices and faces well enough to fool a busy employee.
- Deepfake and voice-cloning fraud — the “urgent call from the boss” that never happened
- Phishing without the old giveaways of bad grammar and odd phrasing
- Automated attacks that probe faster, and at larger scale, than before
- Verification habits that stop a convincing fake before money moves
Rolling out AI, or worried about how it'll be used against you? We'll assess where you stand, set guardrails that fit how you actually work, and train your team. Talk it through →
Answers worth watching
Straight talk on the questions we hear most — from CISSP and Security+ prep to AI, incident response, and what today's threats actually mean for a small business.
Start the conversation
Tell us a little about your business and what's on your mind. We'll follow up within one business day. If you're dealing with an active incident, call — don't wait on a form.
Reach us directly
- Call(301) 555-0100
- Emailcontact@queencitycyber.com
- BaseCumberland, Maryland
- RangeMaryland · West Virginia · Pennsylvania — remote anywhere
Active incident?
If you believe a breach or fraud is happening right now: disconnect the affected machine from the network (don't power it off — that can destroy evidence), stop using compromised accounts, and call us. The first hour matters.