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Security leadership rewards speed. The calls I am proudest of during an active incident were the ones I forced myself to slow down on. That is a trained discipline, not a personality trait, and most...
→ read on loravaughn.comSR Bancorp's breach came through the firm hired to audit its controls. Most vendor risk programs never ask who has access to the data behind the audit itself.
→ read on loravaughn.comA fintech software vendor got hit with ransomware and up to 1.35 million banking customers were exposed. Most of their banks did the questionnaire, got the SOC 2, and still found out months late. The...
→ read on loravaughn.com79% of organizations are deploying AI agents. 6% have updated their governance to match. The gap isn't in the models. It's in what those agents are connected to.
→ read on loravaughn.com95% of CISOs feel pressured to suppress compliance findings. The industry response is that they need more backbone. That's the wrong read.
→ read on loravaughn.comLockBit dominated tabletops for years. The ransomware ecosystem has rotated. The groups hitting organizations right now are not the ones your IR team practiced against, and that gap has consequences.
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