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May 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Your Compliance Program Is Not a Security Program

A clean audit doesn’t tell you whether your company is secure. It tells you something much narrower, and the gap between what the audit answers and what executives read into

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May 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Your Cyber Insurance Might Not Pay When You Need It To

A small electronics manufacturer in Illinois submitted a cyber insurance application in April 2022. They checked yes on MFA. Their CEO signed it. Their head of network security signed it.

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April 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The Deal You Didn’t Know You Made

David Shaw examines the most consistently overlooked risk in M&A transactions: inherited cyber exposure. From Yahoo-Verizon to Marriott-Starwood, the pattern is the same — cybersecurity due diligence gets a questionnaire while financial and legal diligence gets exhaustive scrutiny.

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March 20, 2026 · 11 min read
Why a Fractional CISO Beats a Full‑Time Hire for Growing Companies

Most growing companies already know they “should be doing more” about cybersecurity—but the leap from that realization to hiring a full‑time Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is huge. For many

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