Why You Should Never Grade Your Own Cybersecurity Homework
Every successful business understands the concept of separation of duties. You trust your internal accountant to manage the daily books, but when it is time for an audit, you bring in an independent CPA. You do not do this because you distrust your accounting team; you do it because having an objective set of eyes…
The 2026 Independence Annual Brief
Each year, cybersecurity organizations release reports on metrics and activity observed in the previous year. We have reviewed and consolidated key findings from the IBM X-Force report, Mandiant M-Trends, Crowdstrike Global Threat Report, The World Economic Forum Global Cybersecurity Outlook, and the FBI IC3 Report. Reading them side-by-side reveals broader trends that are incredibly useful…
Bringing the Disney Magic to Cybersecurity
I recently had the privilege of traveling to Disney World with my family. It was an awesome, exhaustion-filled vacation that I wouldn’t trade for the world. Being able to share the trip with both sets of my parents (biological and in-laws) and create multi-generational memories is something my family will cherish forever. While the kids…
5 Ways AI is Changing the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2026
Headlines warn of AI-powered cyberattacks, but that’s only part of the story. While attackers are using AI to scale and automate attacks, defenders are leveraging the same technology to protect networks, data, and systems quicker, cheaper, and more efficiently. 2026 is not the start of a digital apocalypse (hopefully). It’s an ongoing arms race where…
Cybersecurity Is Home Security for the Internet
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How Cybersecurity Helps You Close Bigger Deals Faster
In most boardrooms, cybersecurity is viewed as a “necessary evil.” It sits at the bottom of the budget under “costs we hate” and is treated as a digital tax paid to prevent a disaster that might never happen. I see it differently. Cybersecurity is not a tax. It is a business accelerator. For growing companies,…
Is Cybersecurity Tanking Your Valuation?
If your business is pursuing growth, lining up a major investment round, or preparing for an acquisition, you know that valuation is everything. Every financial model, market projection, and EBITDA multiple is scrutinized to the decimal. But the quiet valuation killer in the background might be your cybersecurity program. Investors no longer treat security as…
Does More Budget = Less Stress?
The cybersecurity budget is one of the industry’s great enigmas. Each year, leaders fight for increased funding. They present the good/bad/ugly and sometimes successfully secure more budget than the year before. Over the following year those hard-won dollars often seem to disappear leaving behind more tools, more alerts, and more visible stress for them. Wait,…
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