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Tony Bedfard is a Sales Engineer with LBT Technology Group, LLC., where he has spent over 3 years helping organizations understand how technology, cybersecurity, and risk management work together to support their business objectives.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Could Your Business Keep Running Tomorrow?

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Data BackupBackups aren't the whole recovery plan. Learn how business continuity and disaster recovery help protect your operations when technology fails.
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CMMC Audits Are Paused: Here's Why Your Compliance Risk Just Went Up, Not Down

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The Pentagon just paused third-party CMMC audits and made it permanent policy, but a $507,000 settlement from June shows that "paused" doesn't mean "off the hook," and the lesson applies well beyond defense contracting.
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22,000 Exchange Servers Are Still Exposed to a Live Hijack Flaw; And the Clock Is Running Out

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A live, actively targetable flaw in on-premises Microsoft Exchange is sitting unpatched on roughly 22,000 servers worldwide and for many small and mid-size businesses, the safety net (extended security support) runs out next month, turning a patching task into a hard deadline.

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It Wasn't a “Hack” It Was a Mistake Anyone Could Make: What the Manchester Airports Breach Teaches SMBs About Vendor Risk

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A breach that exposed the data of 8.7 million people didn't require nation-state malware or a zero-day exploit, it exploited exposed login credentials sitting in plain view in website code, tied to a third-party marketing platform. That's not a sophisticated attack. That's a mistake almost any business could make, which is exactly why every small and mid-sized business should be paying attention.
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CIRCIA Is Almost Here

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After more than four years of waiting, the federal government's most far-reaching cybersecurity reporting law is finally close to taking real, enforceable shape. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has told stakeholders it intends to publish the long-delayed final rule for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) in September 2026 — and once that happens, the clock starts ticking toward mandatory reporting for hundreds of thousands of U.S. businesses.
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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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INDUSTRIAL
TECHNOLOGY
ENERGY
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024