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Guides on cybersecurity, business verification, and OSINT — written for people making real decisions, not security researchers.
Why I Left the Operating Room to Build a Cybersecurity Company
Marine. Surgical tech. Now I run a security and web intelligence company out of Mississippi. The thread through all of it is the same thing.
Read →How to Verify a Business Before You Wire Money or Sign Anything
Most business fraud relies on a single assumption: that you won't check. Here's what checking actually looks like — and how long it takes.
Read →I Sent 600 Security Reports Last Month. Here's What Happened.
Most of them opened it. Almost none of them called. I understand why — and I want to be straight with you about what this whole thing actually is.
Read →The Math Behind a HIPAA Fine (And Why It Should Change How You Think About Security)
A HIPAA violation fine starts at $100 per record. If a breach exposes 500 patient records, that's $50,000 minimum — before attorneys, notification costs, or the federal investigation.
Read →What I Found on a Dental Office's Website Last Week
Open admin port. No DMARC record. An SSL certificate that expired four months ago. They had no idea. Their IT guy had "handled it" two years ago.
Read →What a Website SEO Audit Actually Shows (And Why Your Rankings Are Stuck)
Most small business websites are losing traffic not because the product is wrong or the copy is bad, but because of technical issues that are invisible to the owner and obvious to Google.
Read →How to Verify a Business Before You Wire Money or Sign a Contract
Business fraud is not sophisticated. Most of it relies on a simple assumption: that you will not check. Here is what checking actually looks like.
Read →Why Small Businesses Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks (And What to Do About It)
Attackers do not go after the hardest targets. They go after the easiest ones. For most cybercriminals, that means small businesses — and the gap between what small businesses think their risk is and what it actually is tends to be significant.
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