Security, compliance, and operational intelligence for IT leaders keeping regulated industries running. Delivered once a month — no noise, no filler.
Four areas we cover each month — curated for the people keeping regulated operations running.
Real attack patterns hitting regulated sectors this month — ransomware, supply chain, and OT/IoT vectors — with what to actually do about them.
Regulatory shifts decoded into plain language. No law degree required. We flag what's enforcement-relevant and what's just noise.
How regulated organizations are breaking data silos, passing AI audits, and building the governance layer modern operations require.
Case studies, post-mortem insights, and uptime benchmarks — from organizations that stayed running when everything else went down.
One brief, five editions. Each covers the same critical themes — AI governance, the current threat landscape, Iranian cyber risk, and quantum readiness — tailored to what matters most in your industry.
Vulnerability exploitation, AI-accelerated phishing, and third-party access now drive most breaches. A practical brief on governing employee AI use, navigating Iranian cyber risk, and starting quantum readiness — for every organization.
Read this editionHealthcare data carries the longest risk timeline of any sector — it can't be reissued. Inside: the four priorities that protect PHI — reduce internet-facing exposure, strengthen MFA, detect exfiltration before ransomware detonates, and treat vendors as clinical risk.
Read this editionTrust, uptime, and regulatory confidence are everything in finance. Inside: SEC disclosure and NYDFS readiness, crypto-agility for long-lived transaction archives, and governing AI across lending, fraud, and compliance data.
Read this editionOpen networks, decentralized departments, and decades-long research data make universities uniquely exposed. Inside: GLBA safeguards for financial aid, research segmentation, and AI rules for grading, advising, and admissions.
Read this editionThe CDK Global outage showed how one vendor incident can halt sales, service, and financing at once. Inside: FTC Safeguards readiness, manual fallback procedures, and keeping customer finance data out of public AI tools.
Read this editionNot a general IT newsletter. Not a vendor blog. This is for operational leaders in regulated industries who own uptime.
Strategic intelligence on vendor consolidation, infrastructure risk, and the cost of complexity — written at the leadership level.
No generic CVE dumps. Sector-specific threat actors, attack surfaces unique to healthcare, education, and government, and remediation priorities that match your environment.
HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, CMMC, PCI-DSS — every month we track what actually changed, what enforcement trends say, and what to prioritize before your next audit.