by valino | May 11, 2026 | Hacking
Of all the cybersecurity conversations a founder will have over the course of building a company, the most consequential one is the one she has with her spouse. It is rarely on the agenda. It is almost never scheduled. It usually happens, if it happens at all, on a...
by valino | May 9, 2026 | Compliance
For organizations between fifty and five hundred employees, the question of whether to hire a full-time chief information security officer or to engage a virtual CISO has become one of the most consequential governance decisions a chief executive will make in the year...
by valino | May 8, 2026 | Active Directory
In nearly every internal penetration test conducted against an Active Directory environment of any meaningful size, a single attack technique appears with such consistency that senior practitioners now treat it as the field-test equivalent of a coin toss that nearly...
by valino | May 7, 2026 | Compliance
Of every cybersecurity control that has crossed from optional best practice into operational baseline over the last three years, the DMARC reject policy is the one whose absence has become the hardest to defend in front of a regulator, an underwriter, or an audit...
by valino | May 6, 2026 | Phishing
When a senior practitioner sits down on day one of an executive dark web monitoring engagement, the first twenty-four hours are almost never quiet. The image many chief executives carry of the dark web — an exotic, technically remote underworld — is gently...