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A Ransomware Attack Exposed What Most Plans Are Missing In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted prescription processing for millions of Americans. UnitedHealth Group later confirmed the breach affected approximately 100 million individuals — the largest healthcare data breach in U.S. history. The attackers got in
The Framework Nobody Reads But Everyone Claims to Follow I once walked into a mid-sized financial firm that proudly declared on their website they were "aligned with NIST standards." Thirty minutes into the assessment, I found admin passwords on sticky notes, no multi-factor authentication on critical systems, and
In 2020, threat actors compromised SolarWinds' Orion software and used it to breach dozens of U.S. government agencies. The attackers moved laterally through networks for months because once they were inside the perimeter, those networks trusted them. That single breach rewrote how the federal government thinks about network
In March 2022, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report team released preliminary findings showing that 82% of breaches involved the human element — phishing, stolen credentials, and social engineering. Meanwhile, most organizations I work with still treat NIST standards like a dusty compliance checkbox rather than what they actually are: a
