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Industrial Spies: Yes, Someone Is Spying On You
When we think of “Industrial Espionage,” we may picture a James-Bond type scaling walls, breaking into offices, and cracking safes to steal things like the microfilm for secret weapon plans.…
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TLS Certificate Lifetimes Are Shrinking
Author: Jarret Hinrichs, CTO, Guardian Infrastructure Solutions Manual Management Will Not Keep Up. There's a digital credential behind every HTTPS service your organization exposes. It proves the service is who…
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Financial Threat Actors: The Cybercriminals Hiding In Your Inbox
Financial Crime Gangs no longer burst in wearing masks and waving pistols to steal bags of cash. They sit behind keyboards miles away, expertly hacking your company and easily transferring…
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Your Website Has an Expiration Date.
Most business owners don't know it. There's a credential behind your website that most of the people in your company don't think about. It sits behind your domain, your client…
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After the Breach? Here Comes the Lawsuit
The fallout from a cybersecurity breach Suffering a cybersecurity breach is bad – obviously. It goes far beyond the IT department and affects every part of the business. Operations are…
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Texas Businesses – Let’s Learn About SB 2610
Legislation provides small and medium businesses data breach liability relief By Chuck Smith, President & CEO, Guardian Infrastructure Solutions Texas small and medium sized businesses are in a bind with…
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Patches – We Need a Better Way to Depend on You
If you’re old enough, you may remember R&B singer Clarence Carter’s 1970 hit “Patches” – about a farming family struggling to survive. Its chorus had the famous words: “Patches, I'm…
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Cyber Risks Don’t Reset in January
Five Guardian blogs from 2025 that still define risk in 2026 As calendars flip and budgets reset, it’s tempting to assume risk does too. But cyber risks don’t follow the…
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Auto Dealerships and the “Alarming Gap” in Cybersecurity
In the July 2025 Auto Dealer Today digital article “More Auto Retailers Would Benefit from Additional Cyber Defense,” contributor Karl Falk writes how technology advances in the automotive retail and…
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New Texas Law Limits Damages for SMBs in Cybersecurity Breaches
Understanding the new cybersecurity safe harbor Texas Senate Bill 2610 (SB 2610), which became effective September 1, 2025, creates a "safe harbor" for certain small and medium Texas businesses in…
Read article ↗Patching Is a Solved Issue - Right Up Until It Isn’t
Every IT leader hears the same message: keep systems patched, stay secure. And you do. Your team deploys updates. The dashboards turn green. Compliance boxes get checked. Until the day…
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When Ransomware Rides Your Backup (And How To Stop It)
Your backup isn't IT housekeeping. It's the foundation of your cybersecurity. And in the Permian Basin, where every business connects to America's energy infrastructure, you're already a target. Look, we…
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