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Executive briefs, articles, and the arguments we make when cybersecurity is a business conversation - not a product tour.
The Personal Supply Chain™ – Who Cares?
For CISOs and CSOs, your leadership’s digital life is your new cybersecurity challenge. What is an Executive Personal Supply Chain™? You’re familiar with the risks associated with your company’s extensive,…
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Safe Harbor Case Study: From Hidden Vulnerabilities to a Clear Path Forward
What started as a cybersecurity engagement quickly revealed a bigger issue. As Guardian worked with a Texas technology company, vulnerabilities surfaced not only within the organization itself, but across the…
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Organized Crime: Crime as a Service
When "GoodFellas" Use Computers Most of us view Organized Crime through the lens of the most popular gangster films - period pieces from the "Godfather" trilogy through "Goodfellas" and "The…
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Hacktivists: When Your Business Becomes Their Statement
You Don't Have to Be Wrong to Be a Target “Social justice warriors” are persons or groups who actively fight for causes they feel create systemic inequity, unfairness, or disservice…
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AI or No AI, it’s Still About Proactive Cybersecurity
Let's talk AI in cybersecurity You've probably heard it by now: AI-powered, predictive cybersecurity. It's worth asking, "predictive based on what?" The discussion in cybersecurity circles generally goes like this:…
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Nation State Hackers: The Cyber World Becomes the New Battlefield
It’s in the news almost every week: cyber-attacks on public infrastructures, military installations, government offices, private businesses and more, all attributed to unfriendly nations. As of this writing, the most…
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Industrial Spies: Yes, Someone Is Spying On You
When we think of “Industrial Espionage,” we may picture a James-Bond type scaling walls, breaking into offices, and cracking safes to steal things like the microfilm for secret weapon plans.…
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Financial Threat Actors: The Cybercriminals Hiding In Your Inbox
Financial Crime Gangs no longer burst in wearing masks and waving pistols to steal bags of cash. They sit behind keyboards miles away, expertly hacking your company and easily transferring…
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Cyber Risks Don’t Reset in January
Five Guardian blogs from 2025 that still define risk in 2026 As calendars flip and budgets reset, it’s tempting to assume risk does too. But cyber risks don’t follow the…
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