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Enterprise Risk Management

Covers the integration of cybersecurity into broader enterprise risk management strategies. Articles address how organizations identify, assess, and prioritize cyber risks alongside operational, financial, and strategic threats, ensuring a unified approach to protecting critical assets and business continuity.

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Shadow IT

What Is Shadow IT? The Hidden Risk Draining Your Security

Your Employees Are Building a Second Network You Can't See A marketing manager signs up for an AI writing tool using her corporate email. A developer spins up an AWS instance on a personal account to test code faster. A sales rep stores client contracts in a personal

Carl B. Johnson May 01, 2026 5 min read
Cybersecurity for Executives

Cybersecurity for Executives: What Boards Must Know Now

The SolarWinds Wake-Up Call That Still Echoes in Every Boardroom When SolarWinds disclosed its massive supply chain compromise in late 2020, it wasn't just IT teams scrambling — it was CEOs fielding calls from senators, board members demanding answers they didn't have, and general counsel mapping out

Carl B. Johnson Jun 08, 2023 7 min read
Cybersecurity for Executives

Cybersecurity for Executives: What Boards Get Wrong

When Colonial Pipeline's CEO Joseph Blount testified before the Senate in June 2021, he admitted the company paid $4.4 million in ransom after a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. No multi-factor authentication. No segmentation between IT and operational technology.

Carl B. Johnson Nov 28, 2021 6 min read
Shadow IT Risks

Shadow IT Risks: The Hidden Threat Draining Your Budget

One Unapproved App Cost a Hospital Network $3 Million In 2023, a regional hospital system discovered that a department had been using an unapproved file-sharing tool to exchange patient records for over a year. The tool had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit trail. When an attacker exploited

Carl B. Johnson Sep 10, 2019 8 min read
Board-Level Cybersecurity Awareness

Board-Level Cybersecurity Awareness: A 2026 Guide

The SEC Changed Everything — Most Boards Still Haven't Caught Up In July 2023, the SEC adopted rules requiring public companies to disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four business days and to describe their board's oversight of cyber risk annually. Since then, I've reviewed dozens

Carl B. Johnson Aug 20, 2019 7 min read