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Longer pieces on security and compliance in regulated industries.

  1. Andrew Lance4 min

    Business email compromise is the mid-market breach

    Ransomware gets the headlines. The mid-market incident that actually happens is a compromised mailbox and a redirected payment. Here is what stops it.

  2. Andrew Lance4 min

    The proposed HIPAA Security Rule changes, and what to do before they land

    HHS proposed the first major Security Rule update in over a decade. Here is what changes, why waiting is a mistake, and the order to tackle it in.

  3. Andrew Lance3 min

    What a good penetration test report looks like

    Most pen test reports are scanner output with a cover page. Here is what to expect from a real one, and how to tell the difference before you sign.

  4. Andrew Lance4 min

    Prompt injection is a permissions problem

    You cannot patch a language model into ignoring malicious instructions. The fix is deciding what your AI is allowed to do, and testing whether that holds.

  5. Andrew Lance4 min

    Who holds your encryption keys?

    Encryption at rest is table stakes. The question auditors, regulators, and sophisticated customers ask next is who controls the keys. Here is how to answer it.

  6. Andrew Lance3 min

    Security from the data up: why we start where most providers finish

    Most managed security providers begin at the perimeter and work inward. Sidechain began with the data. Here is why that matters to regulated organizations.

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