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Part 1: Your Business Wasn't Targeted. It Was Available.
When a big company gets hacked, the coverage almost always follows the same script. Someone chose them. Someone had a reason. There was a plan. It's presented like a heist movie where the villain spent months casing the joint before ...
Cyber Trends
Part 1: Your Business Wasn't Targeted. It Was Available.
When a big company gets hacked, the coverage almost always follows the same script. Someone chose them. Someone had a reason. There was a plan. It's presented like a heist movie where the villain spent months casing the joint before ...
Agentic AI: The Cool Tech That Could Cost You Big If You’re Not Careful
If you’ve heard of AI that can do stuff for you (not just answer questions), that’s called agentic AI. It’s powerful, exciting, and… legally risky if you don’t pay attention. Here’s the quick and practical version: what it is, why ...
The New Spiderman Is Coming for Your Business
And He Does Not Care How Good Your Antivirus Is Picture this. You’re sitting at your desk, coffee in hand, feeling pretty good about the day. Revenue looks solid. Your team is productive. IT hasn’t bothered you in weeks, which you assume means everything is fine. Then ...
Business Resilience
Why Your Team Is Busy, Exhausted, and Still Not Getting Results
It’s January, so let’s talk about something most business owners won’t admit out loud. Your team is working hard. Really hard. And somehow, at the end of the quarter, the big things you cared about still didn’t happen. You had goals. You had initiatives. You probably even had a slide deck. And yet here you are, staring at the ...
Part 2: Coffee or a Crisis: The CEO’s Choice in Cybersecurity
Last time we looked at why tabletop exercises matter and how they can reveal the cracks business leaders don’t notice until ...
The Silent IT Risk That Can Wreck Your Company Value: Tribal Knowledge
When CEOs and CFOs think about cybersecurity risk, they think about hackers, ransomware, and data breaches. What they do not think about is the way their own IT teams operate—and how that internal process can make or break the company ...
Security Best Practices
Your Security Program Will Fail If You Do These 5 Things
Most CEOs and CFOs believe their organization is reasonably secure. You have invested in IT. You have tools in place. You have people responsible for cybersecurity. That confidence feels earned, but in many organizations it is not backed by proof. Security programs rarely ...
Why You Keep Adding Security Tools but Still Feel Unsafe
If you run a business today, you already know how overwhelming security can feel. A new scam shows up in the news, so you add a new tool. A software vendor tells you their product will keep you safe, so you subscribe. ...
Your Cyber Budget Is Growing, But So Is Your Risk
You walk into the office. The lights are on. The coffee’s brewing. Everything looks normal. Until it isn’t. Your laptop won’t boot. Your cloud drives are empty. Every desktop screen in the building is showing the same message: “Your files ...
More Articles
The Day After the Breach: 3 CFO Mistakes That Turn Cyber Incidents Into Lawsuits
You’ve balanced the books. Squeezed every dollar from operations. Watched every hire, lease, and expense. But while you’ve been busy protecting the budget… who’s protecting you the day after a breach? Let’s be clear: when hackers hit, it’s not your ...
Cyber Chaos at Marks &; Spencer: No Plan, No Sleep, No Excuse
You might not shop there, but you should pay attention. Marks & Spencer, or M&S, is a British retail giant—think Macy’s meets Whole Foods. They’re one of the most recognizable names in UK retail. Hundreds of locations. Thousands of employees. ...
You Can’t Scale If You Can’t Name the Dragon
I was having dinner the other night with a CEO of a $2 million MSP. He was excited. Like, jittery-excited. We hadn’t even ordered drinks before he started laying out all the “amazing things” his company had going on. New ...
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. ...
The One Lie That’s Killing Your Business (and the Seat It’s Sitting In)
I had breakfast with Jim Collins the other day. Okay—he was on stage. I was in the crowd of 400 CEOs, frantically taking notes while inhaling burnt coffee and half-warm Styrofoam eggs. But I was there. I heard him speak ...
Meet Your Newest Security Risk: The AI Tool You Just Approved
I just got back from a CEO coaching conference. It was one of those events where everyone’s armed with a fresh Moleskine notebook, wearing their serious thinking face, ready to scribble down the next big idea that’ll double their revenue ...
CEOs Are About to Get Wrecked (Unless We Step Up)
Last night, I went to a different kind of event. Usually, I’m surrounded by the people who write code, deploy firewalls, and clean up the digital blood after a ransomware attack. The folks who actually know how a single missed ...
Well, That Didn’t Last Long: Why Your Cyber Strategy Can’t Be Based on Headlines
Not even a full week. That’s how long we had between a glimmer of good news and a fresh slap of reality. Just a few days ago, security analysts were celebrating. Ransomware payments, they said, were down. A win! Maybe ...
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: ...
How Your Phone is Selling You Out—and What to Do About It
Let’s talk about your phone. No, not the $1,000 mini-computer you use to doom-scroll LinkedIn while pretending to listen in meetings. I’m talking about the single most dangerous piece of technology in your environment—because it’s the one that’s most personal, ...
Half-Done Is Worse Than Never Started: What Your Marketing Team Can Learn From Your Dev Team
Let me let you in on a secret that’s helped us have the most successful quarter in our company’s history—and no, it didn’t come from a flashy tool or another overpriced consultant. It came from our software developers. Yeah. The ...
Your Data Was Stolen. And No One Noticed.
The ransomware headlines are dying down. And that’s exactly why you should be worried. Because while you’ve been breathing a little easier, thinking the cyber threats are fading… the game has already changed. And the attackers? They’re getting smarter, quieter, ...
