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Thought leadership themes anchored in executive cybersecurity leadership, resilience, and real incident response experience.
Articles
Cheap Security Software Won't Fix the Affordability Crisis
The industry is about to reprice its tools. The bill small businesses actually can't pay is a different one.
Most Tabletop Exercises Are Theatre
If your last tabletop produced a report and a warm feeling, you paid for theatre. Here is what a real one looks like.
The Patch Shipped Thursday. The Attackers Showed Up Wednesday.
If you run a MikroTik router with SSH facing the internet, you didn't lose a patching race. You lost a race you didn't know was on.
The Master Key Problem: Why Your MSP's Best Tool Is a Risk to You
Your MSP holds a master key to everything you own. The N-able N-central exploitation is not an N-able story — it's the predictable result of how the managed services model is built.
Kali365 Isn't Your Problem. Your Session Cookie Is.
A new phishing kit got a name this year and the whole industry lost the plot. Kali365 doesn't want your password — it wants what comes after the login.
What Makes a Great MSP?
Every provider can recite the same checklist. The distance between good and great shows up somewhere the checklist doesn't look — and it usually takes three years to find out which one you actually hired.
Most MSP Failures Look the Same. Here's What to Watch For.
Every business gets to a point where it cannot keep running its own IT. Hiring an MSP rarely puts the problem somewhere else as cleanly as the brochure suggests — and the failures all look the same.
Core Themes
- The Cyber Resilience Leadership Framework
- What 600+ incident response engagements teach leaders
- The executive role in cybersecurity
- Incident preparedness as a leadership discipline
- Security leadership in the AI era
Featured Concept
The Cyber Resilience Leadership Playbook is a signature thought leadership platform built around lessons from 600+ incident response engagements.