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Texas Businesses – Let’s Learn About SB 2610
Legislation provides small and medium businesses data breach liability relief By Chuck Smith, President & CEO, Guardian Infrastructure Solutions Texas small and medium sized businesses are in a bind with…
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Patches – We Need a Better Way to Depend on You
If you’re old enough, you may remember R&B singer Clarence Carter’s 1970 hit “Patches” – about a farming family struggling to survive. Its chorus had the famous words: “Patches, I'm…
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Let the CEO Sleep – A Practical CTEM Story for SMBs
Pameilly Manufacturing looked "cyber secure" on paper: firewalls in place, MDR running 24/7, clean annual audits. Yet the CEO was losing sleep – he kept reading and hearing that it…
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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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What SB 2610 Really Means for Texas SMBS
Let Guardian guide you into the new cybersecurity safe harbor. In our blog New Texas Law Limits Damages for SMBs in Cybersecurity Breaches, we summarized the Texas Senate Bill 2610…
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Your Company and CTEM: The Aspen Forest Analogy
In this harsh cybersecurity environment we’re all facing, we want to help you understand how so many things in it are interconnected. If you’ve never heard of the uniqueness of…
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Auto Dealerships and the “Alarming Gap” in Cybersecurity
In the July 2025 Auto Dealer Today digital article “More Auto Retailers Would Benefit from Additional Cyber Defense,” contributor Karl Falk writes how technology advances in the automotive retail and…
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New Texas Law Limits Damages for SMBs in Cybersecurity Breaches
Understanding the new cybersecurity safe harbor Texas Senate Bill 2610 (SB 2610), which became effective September 1, 2025, creates a "safe harbor" for certain small and medium Texas businesses in…
Read Patching Is a Solved Issue - Right Up Until It Isn’t
Every IT leader hears the same message: keep systems patched, stay secure. And you do. Your team deploys updates. The dashboards turn green. Compliance boxes get checked. Until the day…
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CTEM: Making the Latest in Cybersecurity Easier to Understand
So, what exactly is CTEM? To start with, CTEM is not a specific solution or off-the-shelf product, but rather a methodology and strategic approach to cybersecurity. CTEM stands for Continuous…
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