Currently when writing this, there are 6 major breaches in the first 3 months of 2026. An estimated total of 810 Million records that are out in the wild. When I’m tracking these events, it doesn’t mean anything. Just 810 million pieces of information that can be used to wreck havoc in somebody else’s life. But that day I was reading about a breach, it hit home. I didn’t think I had any data with that company. Then that day mail came and I got a letter from the company. Another sigh.
The cost of maintaining an IT network with things you need to run a business is expensive and most breached companies had tools in their infrastructure to protect them. Until it didn’t.
Now I’m seeing new vendors come out with tools necessary to protect you from the biggest hit. No, not more cyber security tools but lawyers. Apparently we’ve given up saying your protected (never ever say that). We can’t compete with hackers, don’t even get me started about how AI is being used now. So now we’ll just tighten up your compliance, documentation and audits so you can prove that you…um….tried to protect you data.
That helps keep the lawyers away, and may reduce the fines have to pay but, oh you still have to fix it, which may mean paying someone to take your critical systems off line for a while, to fix the problem and recover your data so you can actually run the business.
We do have a problem.
–Tim
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