Graduation season is here, and if you’re about to finish a cybersecurity degree, a bootcamp, or a certification program and step into your first job search, congratulations — and also, fair warning: the gap between what academic programs prepare you for and what the job actually looks like is real, and nobody warns you about…
The AI governance conversation has been running in the background for most organizations — something to monitor, something to address eventually, something for legal to sort out. That posture has an expiration date, and for many businesses, it’s August 2026. The EU AI Act’s major provisions go fully into effect on August 2, 2026. Organizations…
Every year on March 31st, the security community celebrates World Backup Day. Vendors tweet reminders. IT teams run awareness campaigns. Someone in marketing makes a clever graphic about the 3-2-1 rule. And every year, organizations that had backups still lose everything to ransomware. That’s because we’ve been celebrating the wrong thing. We’ve been celebrating the…
Q1 is over. The board presentation is done. The audit findings are sitting in a tracker somewhere, color-coded and assigned to people who are already busy with something else. Everyone exhales, and then — because this is how it always goes — the next ninety days start accelerating before you’ve had a chance to think…
It’s the end of Q1. You’ve spent three months firefighting, deploying patches, running tabletop exercises, and managing vendor assessments. You have mountains of data. Dashboards full of charts. Logs that could fill a library. And now someone says: “Can you put together a one-page summary for the Board?” One page. Three months of work. One…
Every spring, people get the urge to open the windows, clear out the garage, and finally deal with that closet they’ve been pretending doesn’t exist. There’s something satisfying about it — the act of knowing exactly what you have, where it is, and whether it still serves a purpose. Your network deserves the same treatment.…
Let’s start with a scenario that every GRC analyst has lived through. The Real-World Disconnect Imagine you are onboarding a new SaaS provider, “Vendor X.” You send them your standard SIG Core questionnaire (all 300 rows of Excel). Three weeks later, they reply. You mark them as “Compliant” and approve the contract. Two months later,…
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at the cyber landscape. This year wasn’t just about more threats; it was about smarter, more targeted attacks. While the headlines focused on massive data dumps and ransomware payments, the real stories are in the how and why. If we learn from the major…
Ever feel like you’re playing a game of Telephone with your own team? The message starts as “Please invoice the client using our standard template,” but by the time it reaches the third person, it’s become “Send the client a carrier pigeon with a bill scribbled on a napkin.” If this sounds remotely familiar, you’re…