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CIS IG1 Control 10.1: Table Stakes, but Only If It Can Catch What’s Actually Out There

by Heath Gieson | Sep 23, 2026

Deploy and Maintain Anti-Malware Software   Anti-malware is the one security control almost every business already believes it has. So the question worth asking isn’t whether you have it. It’s whether what you have can catch what actually shows up today, and whether it’s running on everything, not just the obvious computers. A lot of organizations are protected on paper and quietly exposed in practice. Control 10.1 is deliberately foundational. It doesn’t ask for...

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CIS IG1 Control 9.2: Hanging Up the Call Before It Connects

CIS IG1 Control 9.1: An Unsupported Application Is One the Vendor Has Stopped Defending

CIS IG1 Control 8.3: The Log You Need Is Always the One That Already Rolled Off

CIS IG1 Control 8.2: A Log You Can’t Reach Is a Log You Can’t Trust

CIS IG1 Control 8.1: The Question Every Investigation Starts With

by Heath Gieson | Sep 16, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights

Establish and Maintain an Audit Log Management Process Every security investigation starts with the same question: what actually happened? In a lot...

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Top Technology Concerns CEOs Are Facing (And Why the Real Risk Isn’t the Technology)

Top Technology Concerns CEOs Are Facing (And Why the Real Risk Isn’t the Technology)

by Rory Sanchez | Aug 20, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

The Top Technology Concerns CEOs Are Facing Today (And Why the Real Risk Isn't the Technology) If you'd asked most CEOs a few years ago what kept...

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CIS IG1 Control 7.4: Perform Automated Application Patch Management

CIS IG1 Control 7.4: Perform Automated Application Patch Management

by Heath Gieson | Aug 19, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights

Updates You’re Probably Not Catching Your operating system is probably the best-patched software on your computers. Modern Windows and macOS...

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CIS IG1 Control 7.3: Perform Automated Operating System Patch Management

CIS IG1 Control 7.3: Perform Automated Operating System Patch Management

by Heath Gieson | Aug 19, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights

Why Patching Should Be a System, Not a Habit Almost no one argues against patching. Every leader I talk to already knows that unpatched systems are...

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CIS Safeguard 7.2: Finding the Problem Is Only the Beginning

CIS Safeguard 7.2: Finding the Problem Is Only the Beginning

by Tim Marley | Jul 22, 2026 | Secure IT operations, Tech Insights

In Safeguard 7.1, we discussed the difference between running a vulnerability scanner and operating a vulnerability management program. A scan may...

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CIS Safeguard 7.1: Why a Vulnerability Scanner Is Not a Vulnerability Management Program

by Tim Marley | Jul 15, 2026 | Secure IT operations, Tech Insights

A Vulnerability Scanner Is Not a Vulnerability Management Program As we move into CIS Control 7, Continuous Vulnerability Management, we're going to...

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CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.5: Require MFA for Administrative Access

CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.5: Require MFA for Administrative Access

by Heath Gieson | Jul 8, 2026 | Modern IT Operations, Tech Insights

CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.5: Require MFA for Administrative Access by Heath Gieson   This final article in the MFA mini‑series focuses on the...

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Why 84% of Companies Fail at Digital Transformation. And Why That Number Hasn’t Moved.

Why 84% of Companies Fail at Digital Transformation. And Why That Number Hasn’t Moved.

by Frank Merino | Jul 7, 2026 | Modern IT Operations, Tech Insights

Why 84% of Companies Fail at Digital Transformation. And Why That Number Hasn't Moved. By: Frank Merino Nearly a decade ago, Forbes published a...

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CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.4: Require MFA for Remote Network Access

CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.4: Require MFA for Remote Network Access

by Heath Gieson | Jul 1, 2026 | Modern IT Operations, Tech Insights

CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.4: Require MFA for Remote Network Access by Heath Gieson   This article continues our CIS IG1 identity series by extending...

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