by David Pahlman | Apr 6, 2026 | Risk Management, Security Governance, Small Business
7 min readYou don’t have to be Fortune 500 to be on a hacker’s radar. In fact, being small might be exactly why you’re on it. Small Business Risk Management Ransomware Security Governance Cybersecurity Let’s settle something right now. If...
by David Pahlman | Mar 30, 2026 | AI, Frameworks, Security Compliance, Security Governance
6 min readMost AI conversations in organizations today follow the same pattern. Someone types a question. The AI answers it. The person reads the answer and decides what to do next. That model is already becoming obsolete. The next wave of AI — agentic AI —...
by David Pahlman | Mar 26, 2026 | AI, Security Compliance
4 min readLet me ask you something. Do you know every AI tool your team used this week? Not the ones you approved. Not the ones in your IT inventory. All of them. Because right now, someone on your team has probably used ChatGPT to draft a client email. Someone else...
by David Pahlman | Mar 18, 2026 | YouTube Videos
< 1 Let me guess… Somewhere in your organization right now, there’s a folder called: “Final_Final_Audit_THIS_ONE_REAL.zip” And inside? A beautiful collection of screenshots… from six months ago…That nobody has looked at since the auditor left. That’s not...
by David Pahlman | Feb 6, 2026 | Risk Management
2 min readLet’s talk about turnover the way executives actually experience it. When someone leaves, it doesn’t feel like an “HR issue.” It feels like things start breaking. Projects slow down. Decisions take longer. Mistakes creep in. Customers notice. Leaders get...
