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New video is up: CMMC control 3.1.20 and the definition of “external.”When you’re 100% in the cloud, what counts as an e...
10/26/2026

New video is up: CMMC control 3.1.20 and the definition of “external.”

When you’re 100% in the cloud, what counts as an external system?

Read literally, it’s every website on Earth. Nobody expects you to validate the internet, but the control text doesn’t say where the line is.

In the video:

The two ways to draw the line wrong

The NIST definition that broke the logjam for us

Where most templates and prep guides stop short

Why a one-point control still can’t go on a POA&M

10/23/2026

Controlling your CUI scope is the single highest leverage decision you can make to lower your cybersecurity compliance costs.

Many business owners assume the assessor sets the boundary for Controlled Unclassified Information. That is a mistake. By minimizing the systems within your boundary, you reduce the immediate burden of documentation, monitoring, and defense.

This is the core of effective CMMC compliance. Every system you include requires ongoing maintenance. If you are preparing for a NIST 800-171 assessment, your strategy should focus on shrinking the footprint first. I am an independent fractional CIO; I sit on your side of the table to ensure your cybersecurity strategy actually supports your business goals without unnecessary overhead. No tools to sell, no commissions, no conflict.

Check out the full video and all 14 lessons with the link in the comments

10/22/2026

The most expensive decision in a CMMC assessment is usually made before anyone schedules one.

It’s the CUI boundary. Every system inside it is a system you document, control, monitor, and defend, during the assessment and every year after.

Every system outside it isn’t.

You set that boundary, not the assessor. And it usually gets set by whoever happens to be handling the technical work, as a technical decision.

It isn’t one. It’s a business decision about where the work actually happens and where controlled information actually needs to travel. Draw it too wide and you pay for it every year.

The same pattern showed up across the whole assessment.

The things that decided how it went were scope, whether the policy language actually addressed each control, and whether we could find our own evidence in seconds instead of minutes. All of it was settled before the assessor was in the room.

That layer needs someone who understands the business, not just the network. If nobody at your company owns it, that’s the gap worth closing, and well before the assessment.

PHPPanic: Halt Processes 😂The tech team is basically screaming in a group chat while frantically hitting force-quit on e...
10/21/2026

PHP

Panic: Halt Processes 😂

The tech team is basically screaming in a group chat while frantically hitting force-quit on every single thing on the screen.

Nobody can hack the system if we crash it first.

PHP PULL HARDWARE PLUG 😁Everyone's entire cybersecurity plan right now is just sprinting across the room and ripping the...
10/21/2026

PHP

PULL HARDWARE PLUG 😁

Everyone's entire cybersecurity plan right now is just sprinting across the room and ripping the power cord straight out of the wall.

Hackers can’t break into a computer that doesn’t even have electricity.

10/21/2026

During our CMMC L2 assessment, we argued that office Wi-Fi was out of scope.

CUI lived only in an approved cloud environment with access controls, so the network an authorized device used to reach it didn’t change the data's risk.

We lost. I still think we were right on the security merits.

Compliance measures conformance to a written requirement, not the quality of your risk reasoning. Know which game you’re playing at any given moment, and push back anyway. Nobody wins the ones they don’t raise.

New video is up: 14 lessons from a CMMC Level 2 assessment.The assessment was scheduled for six days. We finished in fou...
10/19/2026

New video is up: 14 lessons from a CMMC Level 2 assessment.

The assessment was scheduled for six days. We finished in four, and skipped the end-of-day debriefs after day one because there was nothing to debrief.

Most of what made that possible wasn’t in the technical controls. It was decided weeks before the assessor showed up.

In the video:

Why the C3PAO and the assessor aren’t the same thing, and why that matters
The scope decision that drives your compliance cost for years
The spreadsheet that saved us two days
The one argument we lost, and why I still think we were right

Link in the first comment.

Cybersecurity is the only business function executives feel comfortable delegating completely and then never thinking ab...
10/16/2026

Cybersecurity is the only business function executives feel comfortable delegating completely and then never thinking about again.

Try that with finance. Try it with legal. Try it with operations. You wouldn't. But somehow with the thing that can shut down your business overnight, the playbook is "give it to IT."

So the CEO assumes the COO has it. The COO assumes IT is handling it. IT is waiting on a budget from the CFO. The CFO doesn't know what number to approve because nobody translated the risk into financial terms. The CMO has never been in the conversation at all.

Everyone assumes someone else is holding the thread. The thread disappears.

That is not a technology problem. That is a coordination problem. And it is the reason companies with decent tools, reasonable budgets, and well-intentioned people still get hit.

Cybersecurity is not an IT problem.

It is a business problem that requires a technical solution. Until every executive in your organization knows their specific lane, not IT's lane, but their own, you have a gap. And that gap is exactly where incidents happen.

I just published a video that gives each role its lane. CEO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CHRO, and the difference between CIO, CTO, and CISO that most leaders get wrong.

Plus the missing piece almost no one is assigning: the quarterback.

The breach doesn't ask who was responsible before it decides who gets blamed after.

Full video linked in the first comment.

Artificial Intelligence gave everyone an sea of information.Most people are standing at the edge and just taking the fir...
10/15/2026

Artificial Intelligence gave everyone an sea of information.

Most people are standing at the edge and just taking the first thing that pops up.

The problem was never access to data.

It was always knowing which data actually matters for your business, your risk profile, and your decisions.

Tools don't know your priorities. They know patterns. And they will confidently hand you the wrong answer if you let them.

I saw this way too many times when instructing classes.

Confidently WRONG!

More information is not the same as better judgment. Never was.

Know what you're looking for before you ask the tool to look for it.

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