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Lucas Hathaway: 22 Jul 2026
Quick answer: A qualitative cyber risk assessment rates risk with labels like high, medium, and low, often on a color-coded heat map. A quantitative...
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Randy Lindberg: 08 Jul 2026
Quick answer: Choose a vCISO who acts as a strategic security leader, not an operator. The right one owns risk, governance, board reporting, and the...
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Lucas Hathaway: 01 Jul 2026
Quick answer: AI governance is the set of policies, owners, and controls that decide how your organization adopts and runs AI. AI risk management is...
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Randy Lindberg: 10 Jun 2026
Quick Answer: AI governance starts with the Govern function of the NIST AI RMF. That means establishing an AI policy, updating existing cybersecurity...
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Lucas Hathaway: 01 May 2026
Quick Answer: NCUA examiners prioritize a mature, quantitative risk assessment methodology above all else, regardless of your credit union's asset...
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Lucas Hathaway: 01 Apr 2026
Quick Answer: SOC 2 reports alone are insufficient for vendor risk assessment. Organizations should map vendor controls to their own security...
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Lucas Hathaway: 26 Feb 2026
Quick Answer: Most cybersecurity Board reports fail because they're too technical and don't drive decisions. Instead, boards need 3-10 pages per...
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Lucas Hathaway: 12 Feb 2026
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Lucas Hathaway: 30 Dec 2025
Quick Answer: NCUA examiners will prioritize board cybersecurity training, thorough IT risk assessments, vulnerability management, incident response...
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Lucas Hathaway: 07 Nov 2025
HIPAA’s 2026 update significantly raises cybersecurity expectations, shifting organizations from periodic audits to continuous risk monitoring and...
