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June 29, 2026
Tyler clicked a link, downloaded a blank PDF, and moved on. What he did not know was that a ransomware script was now sitting on his computer waiting to run. What stopped it was a policy that had been set once and running silently in the background for two years. That is Active Directory.
June 29, 2026
There is a moment in The Phoenix Project where a mentor takes a struggling IT leader above the factory floor and shows him the whole system at once. That image never left me. Because it is exactly what I do every time I walk into a business that is having problems.
June 29, 2026
When I connect to a customer's guest Wi-Fi as part of an assessment, I run a LAN scan to show them exactly what is visible to anyone who walks through the door. What shows up would surprise most business owners - and your guest Wi-Fi may be putting a stranger on the same road as your payroll server.
