Protecting SMBs from Cyber Risks Using the NIST Framework
After SMBs Identify risks in the first step of the NIST Framework, the second step defines the process to Protect your assets. We like to refer to this NIST step as making the “security sandwich.” We like this metaphor because we incorporate layers of...
Identifying Cyber Risks in SMBs Using the NIST Framework
Frameworks are great for consultant presentations, but are they relevant to how work actually gets done in the real world? No doubt I have seen my share of boil-the-ocean IT models. I, like most of the pragmatic business leaders of our clients, don’t have time...
Why Cybersecurity Standards are Important to SMBs: Don’t Let Customers Catch You With Your Security Pants Down
I’m often asked if cybersecurity standards are important to SMBs. You bet your sweet bippy! I’ve seen this story play out more and more over the past several years: One of our clients frantically contacts us because one of their customers wants to know if...
We Will Fail and Disappoint You, and That is a Good Thing
Recently, a prospective client shared how the IT firm they had been using for years was failing to deliver. They felt it was time to switch to a new IT partner. When they switched, they didn’t become a Waident client; they hired someone else. A month after they...
Zoom Video Conferencing – Who Gives a Sh*t About Security Anyway
You’re stuck working at home like everyone else and your company suddenly needs to figure out how to handle team communication while the COVID-19 pandemic is happening. Someone does a quick search for tools and they find Zoom, a newer platform that is popular...
John Ahlberg
CEO, Waident
CIO in the corporate world and now for Waident clients. John injects order and technology into business process to keep employees productive, enterprises running, and data safe.
