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Part 2: Your Business Wasn't Targeted. It Was Available.
Last time we talked about Stryker, the hacker group that hit them, and the uncomfortable truth that they probably weren't chosen so much as they were available. The access existed, someone used it, and a Fortune 500 company spent weeks ...
Cyber Trends
Part 2: Your Business Wasn't Targeted. It Was Available.
Last time we talked about Stryker, the hacker group that hit them, and the uncomfortable truth that they probably weren't chosen so much as they were available. The access existed, someone used it, and a Fortune 500 company spent weeks ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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. ...
“Grandpa, I need help!” — Why Vishing Just Became Everyone’s Problem
Vishing Attacks Are Up 442%—And They’re Coming for Your Family and Your CEO There’s a new scam in town—and it’s wearing a familiar voice. You’ve probably heard of phishing. But now there’s vishing—voice phishing—and according to CrowdStrike, it’s up 442% ...
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 ...
Class Actions Lawsuits Now Cost $42 Billion—Here’s Why You Might End Up in Court
In 2024, class action suits hit $42 billion and data privacy lawsuits are largely driving that number. But here’s the part no one’s telling you: lawsuits—not hackers—are what’s killing companies like yours. Think you’re safe because you have cyber insurance ...
The Law You Never Knew You Were Breaking: FTCA
I am going to start with something very scary: you are breaking the law right now. Did you know you were? Probably not. No, you didn’t miss the memo. There just wasn’t one. No flashing red alert. No call from ...
Stop Trying to Boil the Cybersecurity Ocean
Let’s not pretend. Cybersecurity sounds exhausting. You’ve got a business to run, people to manage, goals to hit, and now someone’s telling you that you need 40 new policies, a risk framework, and maybe a cybersecurity bootcamp just to stay ...
Do You Know Enough About AI to Protect Your Business? Take This 4‑Question Quiz and Find Out.
Everyone’s talking about AI like it’s a friendly office assistant. It writes emails. It drafts proposals. It makes your team feel smarter — without having to actually be smarter. But here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: AI is the biggest internal threat to your business you’ve never audited. Because it’s not just what your team is doing with AI ...
You Didn’t Hire AI. But It’s Already on Your Payroll.
Let me tell you a story no one else wants to. You’ve got a new employee. You didn’t interview them. You didn’t onboard them. You never approved their access to your systems. But they’re already inside. They know your processes. ...
Did Your AI Assistant Go Rogue With Your Data?
When you first rolled out M365 you pictured streamlined workflows, faster decisions, fewer papercuts. You didn’t sign up for a public AI model quietly siphoning off your internal agreements, pricing decks, customer roots and shoots for the training set of ...
Incident-Ready: The Paper Trail That Protects Your Claim (Working With Your MSP: Negligence, Gross Negligence, and Keeping Claims Straight)
When incidents happen, the fastest path back to normal rests on two things: how carefully everyone acted and what the records ...
Your Guide to Implementing CMMC: What Defense Contractors Must Know Now
Introduction Beginning November 10, 2025, the Department of War (née Department of Defense) will formally require that new solicitations and contracts include compliance with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). For firms in the defense industrial base, that means compliance ...
From Furrows to Firewalls: Why Your Farm Is the Hacker’s New Playground
When I was a kid, you spent hours plowing a field. Back and forth. Back and forth. You lined the front tire of the tractor perfectly with the last furrow. The sun baked your neck. Dust clogged your nose. Your ...
