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Cyber Liability

When the Breach Happens, You’re Not the Victim—You’re the Defendant

Let’s start with the bad news.  When your company gets breached—and you will get breached—you won’t be the victim in anyone’s eyes.  Not your insurer.  Not the regulators.  Not your board.  And definitely not the people whose data was impacted.  ...

Guilty Until Proven Secure: Why Compliance Is Your Only Defense

You know the drill. You’re the CEO of a growing business. You’ve hired a sharp IT provider. You’ve got antivirus. Backups. Firewalls. Maybe even cyber insurance. You sleep at night thinking you’ve checked the right boxes. But here’s the twist: ...

Don’t You Already DO This for Me? The One Assumption That Could End Your Business

Last week, I had dinner with the CFO of a 100-person logistics company. Not FedEx-scale, but a solid growing company. Their business? Making sure their clients’ packages show up on time, every time. (Unlike my recent experiences with FedEx.) The ...

Your Employees Are Hoarding Digital Trash—and It’s Going to Cost You Millions 

Let’s play a game. When was the last time you took out the trash? No, not metaphorical trash. The real stuff. The kitchen bin—overflowing with last night’s takeout, your kids’ science project leftovers, and something that might have once been ...

Would You Trust the Guy Who Fixes Your Printer to Defend Your Retirement? 

We’ve audited 4,627 networks in the last 90 days. What did we find?  The same head-scratching, stomach-turning reality again and again: Business owners putting their life’s work—their legacy, their retirement plan—into the hands of someone who just got the printer ...

Are Those Security Policies Useless?

Let me guess—you’ve got security policies. A whole binder full of them, right? Maybe even a fancy PDF with your logo on the cover. You wrote them. You reviewed them. You emailed them to your team. And then? Nothing. Nobody ...

The Criminal in the Mirror: Why Cyber Liability Isn’t Just for the Big Guys

You probably think cybersecurity lawsuits are something that only happens to the big dogs.  You know, the MGMs of the world. The Targets. The Equifaxes. You see those names in the headlines, and you think: “Well, good thing I’m not ...

Small Business? Small Target? Think Again.

I was sipping my coffee this morning, watching steam curl out of the mug, when it hit me: lawsuits from cyber breaches are exploding. Like, actual explosion levels of growth. Yesterday, I told a CEO that breach-related litigation has doubled ...

When the Auditor Becomes the Architect—Run

Your business is hitting all the right numbers. Revenue is strong, operations hum along, and from your seat in the C-suite, things look bulletproof. Then—bam—a cyberattack hits. Systems go dark. Phones stop ringing. Orders grind to a halt. You reach ...

Think Your Email Is Safe? So Did They—Until the Lawsuits Hit

You think one compromised email account can’t cost millions? Time to wake up. It’s Monday morning. Coffee in hand. You walk into the office ready to take on the world—and ta-da. Your IT support team tells you one of your ...

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