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When your vendor gets breached, the headline carries YOUR name. Now the lawsuits do too. A single incident today does no...
09/14/2026

When your vendor gets breached, the headline carries YOUR name. Now the lawsuits do too.

A single incident today does not stay contained. It generates legal complaints across vendors, customers, and suppliers, and your name is on the paperwork regardless of whose server actually failed.

Your customers signed with you. Whose infrastructure broke is not their problem. It’s yours.

The breach is only the first hit. The lawsuit is the knockout.

See what follows the breach, the one-two punch, in our story.



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[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

Twenty-five years ago, the world changed in a single morning.Today we pause to remember the lives lost on September 11, ...
09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago, the world changed in a single morning.

Today we pause to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, the first responders who ran toward the danger, and all those who served and sacrificed in the days and years that followed.

We honor them. We will never forget.



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We Hunt the Hunters.
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Our CTO, Jarret Hinrichs, is sharing his knowledge and expertise with Nodeware®'s newly formed Partner Advisory Council....
09/10/2026

Our CTO, Jarret Hinrichs, is sharing his knowledge and expertise with Nodeware®'s newly formed Partner Advisory Council. Nodeware recently invited Jarret to join the group, providing his views on real-world business needs, and product designs to address them.

This reflects how Jarret works. He always stays close to the edge of this industry. That includes being in the advisory rooms where the next generation of security is actually shaped.

As Jarrett puts it: "For the businesses we protect, this means their real-world needs reach the people designing the technology, and it means we see where security is heading before it arrives. Our clients get protection shaped around their business, not a product pushed at them."

More to come from the council soon.

Learn more here:
https://nodeware.com/blog/beyond-the-build-why-were-bringing-msps-and-mssps-into-the-product-conversation



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We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

The average credential breach goes unnoticed for nearly ten months. That is ten months of an open door you cannot see. G...
09/09/2026

The average credential breach goes unnoticed for nearly ten months. That is ten months of an open door you cannot see.

Guardian Glass monitors the open and dark web continuously and flags your exposure in real time, so a stolen login becomes an alert instead of an incident. If there is chatter about your business out there, we find it.

Want to know what is already exposed? Let's take a look.

Check your exposure. đź”— in bio.



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We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

Every report your security spend produces comes from inside your own walls. Endpoints, logs, alerts, all inward-facing. ...
09/02/2026

Every report your security spend produces comes from inside your own walls. Endpoints, logs, alerts, all inward-facing.

Attackers start from the outside. Exposed credentials, forgotten assets, vendor overlap, lookalike domains. Your team has never seen that view, through no fault of their own, because their tools were not built for it.

Two minutes will show you what is visible outside your company right now.

Watch the 2-minute Glass view in our story.



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We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

Here's an uncomfortable number for the auto industry. Only about 20% of dealerships know they've been attacked. Another ...
08/31/2026

Here's an uncomfortable number for the auto industry. Only about 20% of dealerships know they've been attacked. Another 40% aren't sure whether they've been hacked at all.

That not-knowing is the real danger. As our President and CEO Chuck Smith puts it, it's like a hole in the roof. When the weather's nice, you don't know it's there. When it rains, it's too late.

Read the article linked in our story to unpack what Chuck is seeing across the dealership groups he works with, and exactly what to do about it.



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We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

What a turnout for our quarterly Basin InfraSec Network happy hour.Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and came ou...
08/27/2026

What a turnout for our quarterly Basin InfraSec Network happy hour.

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and came out for an evening of meaningful networking. Watching business, IT, and cybersecurity folks from across the region trade ideas and build relationships is exactly why we started this.

Congratulations to our giveaway winners:
• Travis Brown of Region 18 took home the cooler.
• Casey Ritchie of Region 18 won the $100 gift card to Cork & Pig Tavern - Midland
• Jimmy Boen of West Texas National Bank walked away with two tickets to see the Randy Rogers Band in Midland.

Also featured here is Neville Haynes with BBT (Big Bend Telephone) , Matt Hamlin with EdgeTeam Technology , and our very own Steve Heinrich.

If you work in business, IT, or security anywhere in the Permian Basin, consider this your invitation to the next one. The network is only as strong as the people in it, and we would love to have you.

More to come soon. Until then, thank you for being part of it.

Don’t forget to join our LinkedIn group to stay connected between events: https://lnkd.in/gfTdw7AJ

08/24/2026

An aspen forest looks like thousands of separate trees. It's actually one organism.

The trees share a single root system underground, which gives the forest resilience, and also means stress in one area can spread through the whole thing.

Your business is the same.

Your cloud, your vendors, your applications, and your people are not separate systems. They are one connected organism, sharing access and trust.

This is the Aspen Forest Effect, and it is why cybersecurity cannot stop at your own walls. A problem in one root can reach the entire forest.



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We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

The myth that attackers only chase big companies is costing SMBs dearly.According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investig...
08/20/2026

The myth that attackers only chase big companies is costing SMBs dearly.

According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, small businesses were targeted nearly four times more than large organizations, with 12,195 confirmed breaches. Many do not having the resources required to implement strong cybersecurity measures, which makes them an easier target for hacking and other forms of cybercrime.

Texas is giving them a way to fight back. Texas SB 2610 offers eligible businesses “safe harbor.” Maintain a documented cybersecurity program based on specific requirements for your business size, and you are shielded from punitive damages after a breach.

It is an opportunity, not a mandate. But the protection only exists if the program and the documentation exist first. After a breach is too late to qualify.

See why breaches hit SMBs more than you think in our stories.



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Cybersecurity Only Services Provider.
We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

Something changed in the last few years. Data breach lawsuits have become the tech version of personal injury cases, and...
08/19/2026

Something changed in the last few years. Data breach lawsuits have become the tech version of personal injury cases, and the ambulance chasers have become the breach chasers.

Law firms now file individual and class actions alleging negligence and inadequate security, on contingency, with free consultations, chasing financial losses, emotional distress, and punitive damages. The fact that personal injury lawyers, not technology lawyers, moved into this space tells you everything. Cybersecurity is a business and legal issue now, not an IT one.

Here is the part every owner should sit with. You cannot guarantee you will never be breached. But you can show you took reasonable steps to prevent one, and in a courtroom that difference is often decisive.

The way to lower the legal risk is to move spending toward proactive protection before an incident, not reactive cleanup after one.

If your business were breached tomorrow, could you show you were careful?



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Cybersecurity Only Services Provider.
We Hunt the Hunters.
www.guardiancssp.com
[ cybersecurity | managed IT security | attack surface management | cyber risk | threat detection | vulnerability management | proactive security ]

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