Resources
“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% ...
Cyber Trends
“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% ...
The Windows 11 Time Bomb Your MSP Forgot to Mention
Let me tell you a story. It starts like most horror stories do—with a false sense of security. I sat down recently with the CEO of a well-run, 250-person company. Smart guy. Good business. Solid MSP. We talked shop: headcount, ...
Microsoft Just Extorted You. Here’s What to Do About It.
You don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11. That’s the good news. The bad news? If you don’t, your business is about to enter a slow, painful spiral into cyber vulnerability and operational chaos. Right now, people are calling Microsoft’s ...
Business Resilience
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 ...
Could Your Business Survive a Cyberattack? (Most Can’t—and Won’t)
The US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities last week. The result? A “spectacular military success,” sure—followed immediately by the Department of Homeland Security warning that Iran’s state-backed hackers (and a gaggle of bored ...
Security Best Practices
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 ...
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 ...
The Cybersecurity Test You Think You're Passing (You're Not)
We were just running a security assessment for a 150-person company last week. Nice organization. Professional. Fancy logos on their trucks. Well-funded. And in about 11 minutes, we were inside their network. Here’s how it started: We sent an email. ...
More Articles
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, ...
If You’ve Said It Once… You Haven’t Said It Enough
Ever wonder if your team is actually hearing you? I mean really hearing you—not nodding while they check Slack, not pretending they didn’t just mute you on Zoom. I had this conversation yesterday with a group of CEOs running businesses ...
