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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

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 them up at night on the technology side, you'd have gotten predictable answers: ransomware, downtime, "are we sure we’re backed-up," maybe a vague worry about "the cloud." Those concerns haven't gone away. But after years of working inside mid-size and smaller businesses, I've watched the nature of the anxiety shift. The scariest technology problems...

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Require MFA for Externally‑Exposed Applications

CIS IG1 Safeguard 6.3

Access Revoking Laptop

CIS IG1 Control 6.2 – Establish an Access Revoking Process

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See

CIS IG1 Control 4.7: Manage Default Accounts on Enterprise Assets and Software

CIS IG1 Control 4.7: Manage Default Accounts on Enterprise Assets and Software

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More Updates Don’t Mean More Risk — They Mean Better Security

by Heath Gieson | Apr 28, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

Why More Updates Are Coming — and Why That’s a Good Thing Over the next several weeks, organizations are likely to notice something familiar but...

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CIS IG1 Control 4.6: Securely Managing Network Gear

by Heath Gieson | Apr 28, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

When the Management Plane Becomes the Attack Plane by Heath Gieson A few years ago, I was sitting in a conference room with an executive team after...

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The Unlocked Screen in the Corner Office: What CIS Control 4.3 Requires and Why Biometrics Make It Easier Than You Think

by Heath Gieson | Apr 7, 2026 | 2026, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

by Heath Gieson Some attacks are sophisticated. Weeks of reconnaissance, carefully crafted phishing emails, vulnerabilities quietly exploited in the...

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CIS IG1 Control 3.6: Encrypt Data on End User Devices—Because Lost Doesn’t Have to Mean Exposed

CIS IG1 Control 3.6: Encrypt Data on End User Devices—Because Lost Doesn’t Have to Mean Exposed

by Heath Gieson | Mar 17, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

by Heath Gieson As we continue our weekly journey through the CIS IG1 controls, each safeguard builds on the operational foundations we’ve been...

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cybersecurity

You Cannot Protect What You Have Not Identified

by Tim Marley | Feb 17, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

by Tim Marley Last week we talked about data management at a high level. The operating model, the responsibility, the reality that organizations are...

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data management

CIS IG1 Control 3.1: Data Management is Not a Policy Problem

by Tim Marley | Feb 10, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

by Tim Marley   Over the course of my career, and particularly in the last five to ten years, the topic of data management comes up frequently....

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CIS IG1 Control 2.3 — Why Unauthorized Software Is a Hidden Threat Lurking on “Trusted” Devices

CIS IG1 Control 2.3 — Why Unauthorized Software Is a Hidden Threat Lurking on “Trusted” Devices

by Andrew Scott | Feb 3, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

Most organizations assume that corporate devices only run approved software. In reality, that assumption is often wrong. Users are inherently...

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supported software

CIS IG1 Control 2.2 — Why Running Supported Software Is a Security Requirement, Not an IT Preference

by Andrew Scott | Jan 28, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

Most security conversations focus on what software exists in an environment. CIS Control 2.2 pushes the conversation one step further by asking a...

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CIS IG1 Spotlight: Why a Software Inventory Is More Than a Security Requirement

CIS IG1 Spotlight: Why a Software Inventory Is More Than a Security Requirement

by Heath Gieson | Jan 22, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Secure IT operations, Tech Insights, Uncategorized

One of the themes we keep hitting in the CIS IG1 series is simple: you can’t protect what you don’t know you have. That’s true for hardware—and it’s...

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