Supply Chain Attacks: The Threat Hiding in Your Trusted Software
We found a hijacked npm package silently stealing AWS credentials on every build. Supply chain attacks are the most dangerous threat most businesses aren't thinking about.
Getting a Security Assessment: What to Expect and Why It Matters
We found 5 exploitable vulnerabilities in 45 minutes on a Coeur d'Alene startup - including a stored XSS that hijacked admin sessions. Here's what assessments actually cover.
The Threat You're Not Watching: Insider Attacks in 2025
A departing employee exfiltrated 4.2GB of client data over 14 days. Nobody noticed until a competitor called. Here's what we found and how to prevent it.
5 Cloud Security Mistakes That Are Putting Your Data at Risk
14,000 customer records in a public S3 bucket - for 8 months. The 5 misconfigurations we find in almost every cloud assessment, with fixes.
Zero Trust: The Security Model Every Business Should Understand
We compromised an entire internal network from a single phishing click. Zero Trust would have stopped us cold. Here's how it works in practice.
Ransomware Hit Your Business. Now What?
A medical billing company had backups - but the attackers destroyed them first. 19 days dwell time, $60K in recovery costs. Step-by-step guide for the first 30 minutes.
Phishing in 2022: How Attacks Have Evolved and How to Spot Them
11 of 14 employees clicked. 4 entered credentials. 22 minutes total. Modern phishing is targeted, polished, and frighteningly effective.
What Is Penetration Testing - and Does Your Business Need It?
SQL injection gave us full database access in 8 minutes on a SaaS platform that had passed its own security review. Here's what a pentest actually is.
Why Small Businesses Are the #1 Target for Cyberattacks
A Boise accounting firm had their entire client database exposed - SSNs, bank accounts - behind a password set to the company name. Nobody had checked in 3 years.
Why We Don't Recommend Big Cloud Platforms for Most Small Businesses
AWS has 200+ services. A simple app can involve 10 of them before you've done anything unusual. Most small businesses pay a complexity tax for infrastructure built for Netflix. You are not Netflix.
When to Stop Paying for SaaS and Build Your Own
A 20-person company was paying $4,200 a month across 6 tools that didn't talk to each other. We replaced 3 of them with one custom app for $14,000. Payback in under 3 months.
What Investors Actually Want to See in Your MVP
A founder spent 4 months building before talking to a single user. Wrong product assumption. A rough prototype with 2 paying customers beats a polished demo with zero - every time.
Why Your Custom Software Project Failed (and How to Avoid It Next Time)
Most custom software projects fail not because of bad code but because of bad scope, bad communication, and a vendor who said yes to everything. The failure patterns are almost always the same.