Security Guides
Practical, hands-on cybersecurity guides for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Threat Intelligence on a Budget
A premium CTI feed runs six figures a year. Most mid-market companies cannot justify the spend and end up with no threat intelligence at all. There is a middle path.
Why Your Vulnerability Scanner Lies (and What to Do)
A typical enterprise vulnerability scan reports 40,000 findings. The number of those findings that actually reduce risk if remediated this quarter is closer to 200.
Cloud Identity Federation 101
If you still have IAM users with long-lived access keys in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment, federation is the single highest-ROI change you can make this quarter.
The Case for Privileged Access Management
PAM tools are expensive and operationally heavy. They are also, by a wide margin, the control with the highest evidence base for reducing the impact of an intrusion.
Tabletop Exercises That Don't Waste Anyone's Time
A bad tabletop is a two-hour status meeting in costume. A good tabletop is the cheapest insurance you can buy.
PCI DSS 4.0: What Changed and What to Do
PCI DSS 4.0 became mandatory in early 2024 with a long tail of "future-dated" requirements landing March 31, 2025. If you are still operating to 3.2.1, the gap is wider than it looks.