Charles Alexander

AI cyberattacks racing against cybersecurity defenses as opposing digital streams collide around a protected corporate network.

AI Cyberattacks are increasing. Can Your Defenses Keep Up?

  AI cyberattacks are on the rise. As if keeping up with all the cybersecurity threats wasn’t bad enough, we now have AI thrown into the mix to make things even more complicated. There has always been one thing that has always been a component in cyber attacks; and that is time. Before attackers can

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What Is AI Agent Security? What Business Leaders Need to Know

  Generally, most of the artificial intelligence we use today, like large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude, revolve around it waiting for us to tell it what to do. We input the information, usually a typed prompt, and then the AI outputs an answer. With this answer, we then evaluate it to make

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Your Data Is Exposed Faster Than Trusted Organizations Can Detect It

  When you hand your personal information to a company; your email address, your credit card number, your home address, there is an unspoken agreement: they will protect it. But what happens when that protection fails, and more importantly, how long does it take before anyone even knows it has failed? At first glance, everything

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VPN Practices for Executives: A Framework for Safer Business Travel

Executives will go at great lengths to protect their boardroom conversations, legal documents, financial decisions, investor communications, and private calendars carefully. But you’d be surprised to know how many will still connect to an airport Wi-Fi, hotel network, conference Wi-Fi, or business lounge internet with little or no thought to the dangers. Public Wi-Fi may

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How Your Amazon Wish List Can Be Used Against You (And Why Executives Should Care)

  Most executives don’t give a second thought about their Amazon wish list, in fact I don’t think many people do. It’s just a place to store your favorite items for purchase later, there’s nothing strategic or sensitive to it. Or is there? These days, where data is constantly being collected, interpreted, and cross-referenced, and

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Global Instability and Executive Risk: When People Become the Focus

  “The world is turning upside down even as we speak.” I heard those words almost 30 years ago. It seems every generation is faced with the idea of global instability at some point.    When people talk about global instability, they are usually referring to markets, politics, or geopolitics, things that feel distant and

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When Too Much of Your Life Runs on Systems You Don’t Control

  When systems you don’t control power your work, identity, and daily decision-making, risk doesn’t arrive with a bang; it can creep up slowly and quietly without you even noticing it. This is because dependence can sometimes pose a greater danger than a direct attack or breach.   For executives, high-net-worth individuals, and public figures,

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Executive Reputation Risk: Why the Internet Never Forgets—But It Does Misremember

  TL;DR — Key Takeaways Executive reputation risk today isn’t about being visible. It’s about how fragments of information are reinterpreted long after their original context disappears. The internet doesn’t store full stories, it stores fragments. As time passes, meaning changes even when facts don’t. Titles and authority amplify how old information is read. “True

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Wikipedia Privacy Risk for Executives

TL;DR — Key Takeaways (Executive Brief) Wikipedia privacy risks for executives are widely underestimated. What looks like a harmless biography often functions as a centralized intelligence file. Your page can quietly reveal relationships, routines, locations, and wealth signals that enable profiling and impersonation. Removing content doesn’t erase it—Wikipedia entries are scraped, archived, and reused across

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Digital Risk by Country: Where Your Data Is Safe—And Where It Isn’t

  You carry the same device everywhere you go, but the risk isn’t the same everywhere you go. Cross one border, and your private data is protected. Cross another, and it becomes vulnerable to monitoring, cybercrime, and legal access that you’d never expect. For executives and high-net-worth individuals, moving from one country to another may

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