From Alerts to Action: Teaching Execs to Read Cyber Risk Like a Weather Report
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 turn threat noise into something they can read like a weather report: clear, comparable, and decision‑ready. What Executives Actually Need (And Don’t) The SOC lives in logs, CVEs, and vendor […]
When Ransomware Becomes a Civic Emergency: What Cities Must Learn from St. Paul
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 template for what that escalation looks like. When “IT Outage” Turns into a State of Emergency On July 25, 2025, St. Paul began detecting suspicious activity on its internal networks, […]
Zero-Click Visibility: Securing a Brand When No One Ever Hits Your Site
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 can’t patch with an agent install. When a CFO types “Is [Client]’s backup provider secure?” or “Best cybersecurity for a 50‑person firm” into Google or an AI assistant, they get […]
Operational Ransomware: When Uptime Becomes the Real Crown Jewel
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 service providers, and critical services where every minute of downtime carries a real human or economic cost. When “just” data loss isn’t the point In today’s big-game ransomware operations, the […]
KEV-Driven Patching and “Emergency Directive Fatigue”
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 for the last five years, you’re not imagining it. Every week ships a new “critical” CVE, a vendor blast, and at least one headline implying that if you don’t patch […]
Building a Digital Trust Architecture: Moving Beyond Isolated Controls
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 the confidence that systems, data, and interactions are secure, reliable, and respectful of users and their rights. As organizations lean into AI, automation, and always-on digital services, they need more […]
Blue Team vs. GenAI Attackers: What Actually Changes at the Keyboard
What’s the full story when it comes to AI-powered cyberattacks? Blue teams are not suddenly fighting alien TTPs; they are fighting familiar kill chains with the volume turned up and the dwell time compressed. The real change is how both sides use the keyboard: attackers to iterate faster, defenders to triage and decide faster. From […]
Why Security Culture Beats Security Tools (And Makes Them Worth What You Paid)
Security culture beats security tools because tools only amplify the behavior you already have. A great stack in the hands of a rushed, over‑pressured organization just turns bad habits into faster, louder failures. A modest stack inside a culture that takes security seriously will almost always outperform it. Breached with everything “turned on” Picture the […]
Surviving Supply-Chain Ransomware As An MSP
Supply‑chain ransomware has turned MSPs into high‑value dominoes: hit one provider, get dozens of downstream victims as a bonus. In this article, we’ll discuss how to defend your own house, constrain vendor blast radius, and explain the risk in plain English to SMBs. Why MSPs Are Now Prime Targets MSPs sit in the middle of […]
Choose Your Own Adventure: You Are the CMMC Project Manager
You wake up in a cold sweat. The calendar says “CMMC Readiness QBR,” the invite says “mandatory,” and your inbox says “57 unread: URGENT.” Congratulations: you are now the CMMC Project Manager. You didn’t apply for this job. That’s how you know it’s real. Your mission: get your defense shop to CMMC Level 2 without […]