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I help business grow by creating the right technology strategy!

Did you the biggest threat to good cybersecurity in your business is lack of the right processes and procedures? Did you know that employee screwups by clicking the wrong email links, going to the wrong website, or keeping open "dead accounts" is MORE RISKY to your business then the threat of any actual hacker? Did you know that that IF you get "HACKED" is typically a crime of opportunity and NOT A TARGETED ATTACK? If you want to demystify cybersecurity in a way that is sustainable, appropriate to YOUR RISK PROFILE, and also set you on a GROWTH PATH in your business..(YES I SAID THIS CAN HELP YOU GROW)...

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11/03/2026

Just crossed 75,000 views on YouTube.

Link to YouTube in the first comment

You can also listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Links in the comments for both.

11/02/2026

There’s a benchmark for how much a business should spend on IT: about 5.5% of revenue. It’s also the least useful part of the answer.

In a new four-minute video:

- What the benchmarks actually say, including for cybersecurity
- Why security takes a bigger share of the IT budget at smaller companies
- Four checks that matter more than any percentage

Link in the first comment.

11/01/2026

I once visited a small orthopedic practice where the computers with patient information never locked.

No password when someone walked away. No timeout. Especially the doctors' machines. A patient waiting in the exam room could have read whatever was on the screen.

Were they HIPAA compliant on paper? Maybe. There was probably a binder of policies somewhere.

Were they secure? No.

Compliance audits usually happen after an incident is reported. The audit doesn't prevent the breach. It's the autopsy.

HIPAA, NIST, and CMMC are useful. But they're a floor, not a ceiling, and they're meant to be fit to how your business actually runs. Bolt one on without looking at the work, and you get a fresh coat of paint on a cracked foundation.

A checked box is not the same as a locked screen.

Full video in the first comment.

10/31/2026

When the person advising you on security works for the company that sells you the tools, the roadmap and the price list are the same document.

You read both at once without knowing it.

This isn't about dishonest people. Most of them are good at the work. It's about how the job is built. When the job is built around revenue, the advice bends toward revenue, whether anyone means it to or not.

You can see it in what never gets fixed. The stack grows every year. The real problem stays on the list, because it didn't come with a product. Nobody made money solving it.

One question sorts it out: do you make more money if I buy more?

If the answer is yes, you have a vendor with a strategist title. That's fine, as long as you know which hat you're talking to.

Full video in the first comment.

10/30/2026

Control 3.1.20 looks like a quick check until you try to define “external” in a cloud environment.

We started from the CUI workflows, not the firewall logs. Five things that got us to an answer we could defend.

10/29/2026

Control 3.1.20 is worth one point in the CMMC scoring model. It also can’t go on a POA&M. There’s no version where you write a future date and deal with it later.

The hard part isn’t enforcement. It’s the definition. When everything you run is in the cloud, “external system” read literally means every website, every SaaS login, every browser tab someone keeps open all day.

We got unstuck on a definition NIST already provides: an external system is one outside the authorization boundary you established. Our boundary was defined, so the question changed from “what’s out there” to “which outside systems actually handle our CUI.” Then we wrote a policy that named them, inventoried them, and validated what each was publicly documented to do.

There are two ways to get this wrong. Draw it too narrow and you miss where CUI actually moves. Draw it too broad and you’re back to assessing the internet.

Neither is an engineering question. Where controlled information travels is a business question, and it needs someone who knows how the business actually works. If nobody at your company owns that, settle it before the assessment.

10/28/2026

After our engagement, I went looking at how other organizations handle 3.1.20. Templates, prep guides, forums.

Most covered mobile devices connecting in and stopped there. They were silent on the third-party portals where the work actually happens: customer shares, prime portals, government file transfer sites.

Those are the systems most likely to carry CUI, and they were sitting outside the policy and the inventory.

Simple fix when we stopped overthinking it.

10/26/2026

Most executives I talk to don't sit and watch a 15-minute video. They listen in the car.

So Titan of Tech is now a podcast. Same episodes as my YouTube channel, audio only, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

Listen here: https://vist.ly/5p2kn

Four episodes are out today. If you'd rather watch, here they are on YouTube:

The Simple Formula to Calculate Cybersecurity ROI
https://vist.ly/5p2kt

The Real Reason Business Execs Hate Their IT Department
https://vist.ly/5p2kw

The Real Reason Your Cybersecurity is Broken
https://vist.ly/5p2ky

CMMC Compliance: 14 Lessons From a Level 2 Assessment
https://vist.ly/5p2k2

A new episode goes out every Monday at 5 AM Eastern, in time for the drive in.

Be the titan over your tech.

10/26/2026

New video is up: CMMC control 3.1.20 and the definition of “external.”

When you’re 100% in the cloud, what counts as an external system?

Read literally, it’s every website on Earth. Nobody expects you to validate the internet, but the control text doesn’t say where the line is.

In the video:

The two ways to draw the line wrong

The NIST definition that broke the logjam for us

Where most templates and prep guides stop short

Why a one-point control still can’t go on a POA&M

10/23/2026

Controlling your CUI scope is the single highest leverage decision you can make to lower your cybersecurity compliance costs.

Many business owners assume the assessor sets the boundary for Controlled Unclassified Information. That is a mistake. By minimizing the systems within your boundary, you reduce the immediate burden of documentation, monitoring, and defense.

This is the core of effective CMMC compliance. Every system you include requires ongoing maintenance. If you are preparing for a NIST 800-171 assessment, your strategy should focus on shrinking the footprint first. I am an independent fractional CIO; I sit on your side of the table to ensure your cybersecurity strategy actually supports your business goals without unnecessary overhead. No tools to sell, no commissions, no conflict.

Check out the full video and all 14 lessons with the link in the comments

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