by Ron Samson | Sep 14, 2026 | Compliance and Defense Industrial Base Security, Cybersecurity, Managed Security
The acquisition closes. The security exposure does not. For deal teams, Day One is usually framed around finance, operations, branding, and employee communications. Security monitoring often receives attention only after a disruptive event: a ransomware alert, an...
by Ron Samson | Sep 13, 2026 | Cybersecurity, SIEM and Log Management, SOC as a Service
Log Retention Is an Investigation Decision, Not a Storage Setting Most organizations discover their log-retention problem during an incident. A ransomware investigation requires authentication history from three months earlier. Legal asks for evidence of unusual...
by Ron Samson | Sep 10, 2026 | Cybersecurity, SOC as a Service
The SOC staffing question is not simply “build or buy” Security leaders rarely begin with a clean decision between an internal security operations center and an outsourced provider. The immediate problem is usually more practical: alerts are accumulating, endpoint...
by Ron Samson | Sep 7, 2026 | Compliance and Defense Industrial Base Security, Cybersecurity, Threat Detection and Response
Plan for operational security outcomes, not another procurement cycle Cybersecurity budget planning for 2027 should begin with a difficult question: what security work will the organization actually perform better after the money is spent? Many teams still build...
by Ron Samson | | Cybersecurity, Managed Security, Network Security
Cybersecurity due diligence is a deal-value discipline Mergers and acquisitions teams are accustomed to testing financial statements, customer concentration, intellectual property, and legal exposure. Cybersecurity deserves the same rigor because it can create...
by Ron Samson | Aug 21, 2026 | Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity diligence is now a value-creation workstream For private equity firms, cybersecurity diligence cannot end when the purchase agreement closes. Pre-close reviews often identify obvious gaps, but limited access, compressed timelines, and management...
