John Finley John Finley

The Lawsuit Comes After the Breach: Will Your CFO Be Ready?

You know how this story starts. A breach detonates. The security team locks down the network, scrambles to restore from backup, and works around the clock to piece together what happened. It’s chaos, but it’s controlled chaos—technical, tactical, and familiar. But while the CSO is firefighting, the CFO is walking into something far more destructive: the legal and financial storm that follows.

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John Finley John Finley

How Hackers Are Disabling Endpoint Protection with a Signed Installer—And Why Most vCSOs Won’t See It Coming

Picture this: You’ve invested in top-shelf security tools. The endpoint detection and response (EDR) system is rock solid—SentinelOne, no less. It's your cybersecurity comfort blanket. Your stack is hardened, logging is active, and the alerts are loud. You’re doing everything right. Then comes a simple, silent trick that takes it all offline. 

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John Finley John Finley

You Weren’t Breached by a Hacker—You Were Breached by Apathy

There was no zero-day exploit. No nation-state attacker. No headline-grabbing malware strain. Just a phishing email. Caught by the SOC. Flagged in the queue. Ignored by an analyst who didn’t bother to dig deeper. The ransomware that followed took less than 48 hours to bring the company to its knees.

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