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Bill Monreal: October 9, 2025
I got a call at 2 a.m. from a client. The owner’s voice was all panic and exhaustion. “We’ve been hacked,” he said. “There’s a ransom note on every...
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Bill Monreal: September 25, 2025
I’ll never forget the look on the face of a new client, the operations manager at a manufacturing plant here in Northeast Ohio. He slid a tablet...
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Bill Monreal: September 11, 2025
Is That Ticking Sound Your Server... or a Time Bomb? I'll never forget a call we got a few months ago. It was from a local manufacturing company, and...
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Bill Monreal: August 14, 2025
That's Not Your CEO on the Line Picture this: It’s a hectic Thursday afternoon. You’re trying to close out the week, and the phone rings. It’s your...
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Of all the modern business puzzles, the monthly cloud services bill might be the most perplexing. It arrives in your inbox, and you open it with the...
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When “Doing Nothing” Costs You Everything We’ve all been there. The check engine light comes on, and our first thought isn’t, “Oh, I should get that...
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CMMC 2.0 Simplified: Your Guide to the DoD’s Cybersecurity Update I remember when the first version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...