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Chad Baker

The Hidden Cost of Downtime in Modern Manufacturing

Downtime costs more than lost production. Learn how modern manufacturing outages impact labor, recovery, contracts, and uptime resilience....

Chad Baker

From Patchy to Prepared: How Manufacturers Build Resilience Without Starting Over

Many manufacturers have partial protections in place. See how validating segmentation, recovery, and monitoring reduces downtime without major disruption....

Chad Baker

CIRCIA in 2026: What Healthcare, Education, Local Government, and Utilities Must Prepare for Now

Cyber incidents have always required investigation. What’s changing is the expectation of speed. The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure...

Chad Baker

When Does the CIRCIA 72-Hour Clock Actually Start? 

Under CIRCIA, the reporting timeline is tied to when a covered entity reasonably believes a covered cyber incident occurred, not...
Ransomware Payments Under CIRCIA: 24-Hour Reporting, CFO Controls, and Cost Containment

Chad Baker

Ransomware Payments Under CIRCIA: 24-Hour Reporting, CFO Controls, and Cost Containment 

When operations are disrupted, the circle of people involved expands quickly: security and IT, legal counsel, cyber insurance, executive leadership,...

Chad Baker

Are We a Covered Entity? A CIRCIA Quick Test Using CISA’s Three-Step Framework 

The most common CIRCIA question I hear isn’t about reporting timelines. It’s simpler… and it usually comes from the people...