The private cybersecurity advisor at the table with your wealth advisor, estate attorney, and CPA.
Private cybersecurity and privacy counsel for principals, households, and family offices.
Trusted human judgment in an age of AI impersonation.
Confidential
Private Cybersecurity Plan
Prepared for the household and trusted advisors.
Wealth advisors. Estate attorneys. CPAs. There has never been an equivalent for cybersecurity.
Blayes is that role. A leadership retainer for firms, a finite founder-led engagement for households, the same judgment at the right scale.
AI has made the technical work cheap, and a familiar voice or request is no longer proof of anything. What it cannot supply is accountability: one person who owns the decisions it has blurred and answers for them.
Founded in South Florida, Blayes works in person across Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Jupiter, with remote and hybrid engagements elsewhere.
The founder
James Blayes.
Blayes Cyber Advisors is led by James Blayes, a practicing chief information security officer with roughly twenty years protecting enterprises and the people behind them. The person who establishes your foundation is the person you reach when something looks wrong.
CISSP · CCSP · GIAC certified · Practicing CISO
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10 Ways to Not Get Hacked
Two practices. One judgment.
For institutions
The Cybersecurity Leadership Retainer
For households
The Private Cybersecurity Engagement
Senior cybersecurity leadership, retained.
Family offices and RIAs run with wealth advisors, attorneys, CPAs, and compliance leads, but rarely a senior cybersecurity executive accountable for posture. The decision sits between IT, compliance, and instinct, which usually means it sits nowhere.
Decisions. A practicing cybersecurity executive on your calendar for what IT and compliance cannot settle alone, from vendor selection to a live incident.
Vendor oversight. Independent review of your MSPs, SOC providers, and tooling. Recommendations serve the firm, never commission or resale.
Board and principals. A quarterly written posture briefing, with material risks and pending decisions surfaced in plain language as they arise.
By monthly retainer, six-month minimum, conflict-checked before each new firm.
Discuss a retainer →The risk now follows the wealth.
For the families and firms behind serious wealth, the exposure left corporate IT years ago, into personal email, brokerage logins, the house, the next transaction, a child's name online. A request to move money no longer has to look like fraud. It can be a voice you have known for years, or a face on a video call.
The signature
A recognized voice is no longer proof.
Before money moves, an instruction routes through a second channel agreed in advance. A household system that does not depend on instinct under pressure.
Households and firms engage when something changes
Immediate
Wire-fraud scare
Account takeover
Estate transition
Planning
Liquidity event
New family office
Insurance renewal
For households
The Private Cybersecurity Engagement.
Structure
Defined engagement
Discovery to handover
Fee
Fixed-fee
Delivery
Founder-led
Deliverable
Private Cybersecurity Plan
90-day advisory window
Discovery
Implementation
Handover
Continuity
What the foundation establishes.
Accounts and identity
Privacy and exposure
Home network and devices
The human layer
What we don't do
Blayes is an advisory practice, not a managed service. Ongoing monitoring, SOC or MSP operation, penetration testing, incident response, and executive protection belong to specialists, and the practice refers to them.
Our value is judgment and execution, delivered cleanly and handed over.
Calibrated for every member of the household.
Children
Under 13
Set up with the parents, calibrated to age, never maximalist.
Teens
13 to 18
Reviewed with the teen; phishing, sextortion, and exposure addressed directly.
College
18 to 25
Hardened before they leave the family network, with a clear path back.
Aging parents
Senior generation
The most targeted group in fraud; recovery set so a trusted adult child can step in.
CONFIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLD RECORD
The cybersecurity record the household keeps.
Every engagement closes with a written record of what was established, how key systems are configured, where recovery information lives, and what exposure remains.
It is built to sit beside the estate plan, insurance file, and financial plan, and to stay useful long after the engagement ends.
A sample of the record. Each plan is issued as a numbered document, owned by the household.
How sensitive access is handled.
You hold the keys.
Passwords, recovery codes, and credentials stay with the client; Blayes never takes custody, during the engagement or after. Configuration is done with you present, in person or screen-shared. If the practice disappeared tomorrow, nothing about the household's security would depend on it still being there.
No sales. No commissions.
The practice does not resell software, take affiliate fees, or earn commissions on the tools used. Tool selection is based on what is right for the client, not on what a vendor pays to be recommended.
Information is minimized and masked.
Sensitive details are masked before any analysis tool is involved, and the original stays inside the engagement environment. Household information is never used to train external models or kept on third-party platforms.
Confidential, on written terms.
No engagement begins without an engagement letter and a non-disclosure agreement, with privacy and data-retention commitments agreed in advance. Client identities are never disclosed; references, when offered, are made individually and with permission.
Client Intel
An ongoing brief on the cyber, fraud, and privacy developments that reach affluent households, each item chosen by the practice. Available to clients and the advisers who work with them.
From the verified record
66%
Speed decides recovery
The FBI recovery team's success rate freezing fraudulent transfers when the loss is reported quickly.
FBI IC3 Recovery Asset Team, 2024
60%
Hearing is not verification
Roughly how often a listener correctly identifies an AI voice clone. Little better than chance.
Scientific Reports, 2025
$129K
What one email costs
The average loss when a compromised email account redirects a payment.
FBI IC3 Annual Report, 2024
For the firms who serve these families.
Blayes offers Private Client Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, a live six-week advisor program on verification, documentation, and first response in the age of AI-enabled client fraud. Built for RIA principals, wealth advisors, estate attorneys, CPAs, and trust officers.
Before we speak.
What does a Private Cybersecurity Engagement cost?
The Private Cybersecurity Engagement begins at $15,000; complex households typically $25,000 and above. The one-time fee includes the engagement, the Plan, and a 90-day advisory window.
My advisor calls to confirm large transfers. Isn't that enough?
It was, until a recorded voice became easy to reproduce. A confirmation call can now be the fraud rather than the safeguard: the voice on the line can be an AI-generated clone. Reliable verification depends on a second channel, agreed in advance, that an impersonator cannot reach.
Do you work alongside our existing advisors?
Yes. Blayes complements the wealth advisor, estate attorney, and CPA, never replacing them or cross-selling around them. No software resale, no commission, no account custody, so an introduction is safe for everyone.
Consultation request
Request a private consultation.
A private 30-minute conversation with the founder about the missing cybersecurity foundation and the right first step.
The Cyber Readiness Review begins at $5,000 and credits toward an engagement. Engagements are scoped to the household or firm.
With your permission, it opens with a brief review of what is publicly visible about your household or firm. Nothing is retained unless you engage.
Prefer to write?
Send a short note and the founder will reply to you directly.
Please do not include passwords, account numbers, or recovery codes; those are handled only after an engagement is established.
Or email advisory@blayes.com.