Cybersecurity Company in Los Angeles

The Trusted Partner Network (TPN) is a joint Motion Picture Association and Content Delivery and Security Association program that administers content-security audits for studio vendors. The framework is built on the MPA Content Security Best Practices, with a Common Guidelines document plus Application and Cloud Security addendums. Gold Shield is the highest assessment tier, requiring a third-party C3PAO-style on-site or hybrid audit by a TPN-approved assessor (Convergent Risks, ContentArmor, Richey May, BSI, and a small set of others) against the full Common Guidelines plus relevant addendums. Silver Shield is a self-assessment tier verified by TPN. To achieve Gold Shield we build the Asset Protection Plan (the primary TPN evidence artifact), implement the MPA-T-1.x.x physical security controls, MPA-T-2.x.x digital security controls (network segmentation, access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, MFA, logging, vulnerability management, secure transfer protocols), MPA-T-3.x.x personnel controls (background checks, NDAs, training), and the Application Security and Cloud Security addendum controls where the vendor handles content in cloud workflows. Audit cycle is typically annual. Studios increasingly require Gold Shield for any vendor touching pre-release or unreleased material, and Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, and Sony Pictures all enforce TPN status as a procurement gate. We have built programs that passed Gold Shield on first audit and we will tell you up front which controls need 12 to 16 weeks of remediation before booking an assessor.

CMMC 2.0 (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, finalised in October 2024 with the 32 CFR Part 170 rule and the December 2024 effective date) applies to any DoD contractor or subcontractor handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Level 1 (17 practices for FCI) is a self-assessment. Level 2 (110 practices aligned to NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2) requires a third-party C3PAO assessment for most programs handling CUI, with affirmation submitted to the Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS). Level 3 (Level 2 plus a subset of NIST SP 800-172 enhanced controls) requires a DCMA-led DIBCAC assessment for the highest-sensitivity programs. We build the enclave architecture that separates CUI from non-CUI workloads (typically AWS GovCloud US-West, Azure Government, or an on-premises segmented network), document the System Security Plan (SSP) and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M), implement the 110 NIST 800-171 controls with the SPRS scoring rationale, and stand up the FedRAMP Moderate-equivalent baseline that satisfies the 252.204-7012 flow-down. The SpaceX, Anduril, Skydio, and broader prime subcontract chains have all telegraphed Level 2 as the procurement floor, and DCMA DIBCAC has begun targeted assessments in 2024 and 2025. ITAR technical-data controls and the deemed-export rules for foreign-national access are layered on top with documented physical and logical segregation.

HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR 164.302-318) governs the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for ePHI. CMIA (California Civil Code 56) layers California-specific confidentiality requirements with stricter rules on disclosure and broader patient remedies (CMIA permits private right of action with statutory damages, while HIPAA does not). The California AG has actively enforced CMIA, and OCR has actively enforced HIPAA. We build programs aligned to the OCR Audit Protocol as the evidence checklist, with risk analysis under 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A), workforce security and training, access control, audit controls, integrity, transmission security, encryption of ePHI at rest and in transit (AES-256, TLS 1.3), the breach risk assessment workflow under 164.402, and the notification playbook that maps the HIPAA 60-day individual-notification clock, the HHS Secretary notification, and the California 15-business-day breach notification under California Civil Code 1798.82. Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) are templated for every vendor relationship, with the subcontractor flow-down required by HITECH. For digital health startups (the LA telehealth, mental-health, and femtech cluster), we layer SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST CSF on top where enterprise hospital procurement requires it, and we segment IoMT and medical-device traffic per the FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance.

The Sony Pictures 2014 breach (attributed to DPRK Lazarus actors, with persistent reconnaissance via spear-phishing, lateral movement, mass exfiltration of email archives, payroll, and pre-release film materials, and a destructive wiper component) reset the insider-threat baseline for every studio CISO function. Our pre-release protection program layers: hardware-rooted FIDO2 MFA for every account with access to unreleased materials (no SMS or push fallback that can be bypassed), least-privilege access with just-in-time elevation through PAM (CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea), watermarked screener distribution through Verance Aspect, ContentArmor, Convergent Risks Witness, or Cinea so every leak traces to a recipient, encrypted dailies workflows on Aspera, Signiant, or MASV with end-to-end TLS 1.3 and AES-256 at rest, DLP on Microsoft Purview, Forcepoint, or Symantec for content-aware egress controls, EDR with behavioural detection on CrowdStrike Falcon or SentinelOne Singularity, UEBA in the SIEM tuned to insider-threat patterns (off-hours access, anomalous downloads, bulk transfers, USB usage spikes), and a TPN-audited Asset Protection Plan that documents the chain of custody from camera to delivery. Embargo workflows for review screeners and press junket materials have their own segmented infrastructure. Sony Pictures itself rebuilt to a markedly different posture after 2014, and that posture (plus the Disney, Warner, and Paramount equivalents) is the bar we build to.

For Hollywood studios and the post-production tier, CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne Singularity both have heavy install bases (CrowdStrike particularly at Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, and Sony Pictures patterns; SentinelOne at Paramount-tier and the independent VFX shops), with Splunk Enterprise Security or Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM, Wiz for CNAPP, Okta for identity, and Verance plus ContentArmor for watermarking. For aerospace and defense, the CMMC 2.0 enclave pattern is Splunk Enterprise Security on-premises or in AWS GovCloud, CrowdStrike Falcon (with the FedRAMP High Falcon for Government tier where the program requires it), Microsoft Entra ID Government, Tenable.sc for vulnerability management with the STIG and CIS benchmark integration, and the FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules across the stack. For healthcare, the pattern is Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk for SIEM with the HIPAA-eligible AWS or Azure region (us-west-2 or West US 2), CrowdStrike Falcon or SentinelOne for EDR with the HIPAA BAA executed, Wiz CNAPP for the cloud workloads, Imprivata for clinician identity and SSO, and Claroty or Medigate for IoMT and medical-device segmentation. We size the stack to the firm; a 300-person VFX vendor does not need the same SIEM footprint as Cedars-Sinai, and we will say so before you sign the Splunk contract.

California AB 730 (signed 2019, with subsequent amendments) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive deepfake audio or visual media of a candidate within 60 days of an election with intent to injure the candidate or deceive voters, with civil and limited criminal remedies. AB 602 (signed 2019, amended subsequently) creates a civil cause of action for the depiction of an identifiable person in sexually explicit deepfake material without consent, with significant statutory damages. SB 1001 (in force since 2019) requires disclosure of automated bot identity when used to incentivise a commercial transaction or influence an election. For entertainment clients we screen AI-generated and synthetic-content workflows against AB 730 and AB 602 for any content depicting real persons, with documented consent for any synthetic likeness use and a labelling policy aligned with the C2PA Content Credentials standard for provenance. For marketing programs we screen chatbot and AI-assistant deployments against SB 1001 and the FTC AI guidance on disclosure. We do not build a chatbot that passes itself off as human in a commercial context, and we will not build a synthetic-likeness creative without documented consent and a clear C2PA-aligned disclosure path.

Our LA incident-response playbook is built for the actual sequence each vertical faces. For studios: detect on EDR plus DLP plus UEBA, contain via CrowdStrike Falcon or SentinelOne network containment, preserve with Velociraptor and KAPE, coordinate with the FBI Los Angeles Field Office Cyber Task Force (which has primary federal cyber jurisdiction in the LA region and an active relationship with the major studio CISO functions), engage MPA notification protocols where unreleased content is exposed, notify SEC under Item 1.05 for public-company parents (Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, Sony Group ADR), and prepare TPN audit re-baseline for the impacted vendor. For aerospace: DIBCAC and DC3 DCISE incident reporting per DFARS 252.204-7012 (the 72-hour clock to report cyber incidents involving CUI to DoD), parallel notification to the prime contractor under the flow-down, and forensics handled under chain-of-custody discipline that supports a DCSA investigation if the program is cleared. For healthcare: OCR breach notification within 60 days, California AG and affected-individual notification under Civil Code 1798.82 within 15 business days for breaches affecting more than 500 California residents, HHS Secretary notification, and BAA-driven vendor coordination. Retained DFIR firms we coordinate with include Mandiant, CrowdStrike Services, Kroll Cyber, Stroz Friedberg, Unit 42, and Arete; outside counsel with LA cyber benches includes Latham and Watkins, Gibson Dunn, Munger Tolles, O\'Melveny and Myers, and Loeb and Loeb (the studio incumbent for entertainment-specific work).

CCPA (in force since January 2020) and CPRA (the November 2020 ballot measure expansion, in force since January 2023 with the California Privacy Protection Agency standing up as the dedicated regulator) govern California-resident personal information rights, with the CPPA actively issuing enforcement actions and the California AG retaining parallel authority. The September 2024 CPPA enforcement uptick (with public settlements against ad-tech and DTC violators) has reshaped what LA consumer brands can do with cross-context behavioural advertising, sensitive personal information, and Global Privacy Control signals. We audit the data flow against the CPRA Section 1798 requirements, implement the Right to Know, Right to Delete, Right to Correct, Right to Limit Use of Sensitive PI, and Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing flows with documented evidence, configure the CMP (OneTrust, Cookiebot, Didomi, Sourcepoint) to honour the Global Privacy Control browser-level signal as the CPPA has required, build the data inventory and processing record that the CPPA will request during an audit, and update the privacy policy and the Notice at Collection to the current CPPA enforcement standard. Contracts with vendors (service providers, contractors, and third parties under CPRA terminology) are templated to the current CPPA model. AB 1008 (the 2024 amendment confirming AI inferences as personal information) is wired into the inventory.