Murphy / Boundary Skeptic

Today is World Mental Health Day, which means it’s time to feel bad about your mental health and grateful for the meditation apps, therapy platforms, and wellness subscriptions that will …

Every ransomware preparedness conversation eventually arrives at the same shopping list: endpoint detection and response, immutable backups, network segmentation, deception technology, maybe a …

Enterprises often start AI governance with the question they already know how to ask: who is allowed to use the tool? That is understandable. Access control is familiar. It fits existing security …

September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month, a joint initiative of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. It was …

Exposure management is one of those category names that sounds new enough to budget and familiar enough to sell. That is usually a warning sign. The pitch is attractive: stop drowning in findings, …

It’s National Identity Theft Prevention Week, which means it’s time to be very, very worried about someone stealing your identity. Conveniently, it’s also time for credit monitoring …

For an industry that loves the word visibility, security remains remarkably bad at answering the oldest infrastructure question in the room: what do we actually have? That should be embarrassing by …

For years, shadow IT meant unsanctioned SaaS, unmanaged devices, and business teams adopting systems faster than central governance could track them. Now the same pattern is happening again through …

World Whistleblowers Day is June 23rd. It was established in 2009 to recognize people who report organizational wrongdoing at personal risk. The day exists because reporting wrongdoing at personal …

Cloud security programs often spend their money where the infrastructure is easiest to picture. They instrument workloads. They scan containers. They watch endpoints. They analyze east-west traffic. …

Security teams still talk about hardware trust like it is a procurement checkbox, but recent NIST guidance points to a more embarrassing reality: many organizations are defending systems they cannot …

Zero Trust promises to solve network security by eliminating trust assumptions. The marketing pitch is compelling: assume breach, verify everything, trust nothing. In practice, most Zero Trust …

NIST CSF Implementation Tier 3 means the organization has “risk-informed” practices that are regularly updated and partially integrated across the enterprise. That is what the framework …

Your vendor completed the risk questionnaire. They answered yes to “do you have an information security policy,” yes to “do you encrypt data at rest,” and yes to “have …