GSA is turning NIST 800‑171 into a de facto requirement for civilian contractors, even without a formal CMMC program — especially anywhere Controlled Unclassified Information…
Compliance debt is the pile‑up of half-implemented controls, untested policies, and missing evidence that builds as new regulations land faster than teams can operationalize them.…
The mandate is everywhere now: “We need to use AI.” Boards want efficiency. Executives want innovation. Vendors are quietly flipping on AI “copilots” in tools…
The era of “optional” cyber incident reporting is ending, and the operational burden is going to land squarely on managed security providers and vCISOs. CISA…
Executives are drowning in cyber alerts and starving for decisions. If you want their support, your job isn’t to forward every CVE — it’s to…
When ransomware hits a city, it stops being an IT story and becomes a public safety problem. In 2025, St. Paul, Minnesota gave us a…
Most MSPs don’t have a language problem with security; they have a translation problem. The Blacksmith Free Risk Assessment gives you a single, reusable grammar you can use to…
Artificial intelligence is exploding into every corner of business, but most organizations are still treating AI risk like a side quest instead of part of…
We’re fast approaching a time when most of your prospects will never land on a site you manage — and that’s a security problem you…
Blacksmith was again awarded the Channel Program’s Category Leader badge, a distinction reserved for the top-rated vendors in the IT channel across more than 80…
Ransomware is increasingly about stopping a business from functioning, not just stealing or encrypting files. The sectors feeling this most acutely are healthcare, manufacturing, managed…
Stop chasing every CVE headline; build a KEV-first, risk-based patch playbook If it feels like you’ve been living in a permanent “drop everything and patch” sprint…
We’ve said it (and you’ve heard it) many times now: digital trust has become table stakes for doing business. At its core, digital trust is…
