September 11, 2025 | Bellingham, Wash.

Keith and I often reflect on how the main reason we like our job is that we get to wake up and help people, every single day.

Now solidly in Year 4 of Intentional Cybersecurity, it has been our great pleasure to get to work with so many clients who are interested in solving hard problems, getting better, and making progress managing down their cyber risk exposure.

In an effort to continue this trend, we’re expanding our ability to reach current, past, and prospective clients through this monthly email. Ideally, each issue will feature a single topic, a solid resource, and a bit about one of our partners.

Like everything we put out, we hope you find it helpful, and please let us know if we can ever assist. We would love to hear from you.

With gratitude,

Shay, Keith, and the
Intentional Cybersecurity Team

Intentional Brief Feature: AI

Every week, we produce The Intentional Brief, a 5 minute video to help executives, managers, and investors understand the latest cybersecurity news, including how to manage these emerging risks within their organization.

You can get them on our website or our YouTube channel every Monday.

While topics change by week and with the news cycles, we’ve all been hearing a lot about AI lately. What you may not have been hearing as much about is how AI can be presenting additional cybersecurity risk to your organization.

Below, you’ll find two of our latest on AI, each with an eye towards security.

Resource Corner

Is Your Business Vulnerable to Email Compromise?

Email is still the #1 attack vector, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are more targeted, more convincing, and more expensive than ever.

Our free BEC Assessment will help you:

• Identify weak spots in your email security and configurations

• Understand why SPF/DKIM/DMARC settings matter

• Get plain-English next steps for improvement you can take today

Partner Spotlight

LIVE: The 11 Essential Cybersecurity Controls (with our partners at Cybereason)

What really works against today’s threat actors? After conducting 7000+ incident response investigations, our experts have identified the 11 Essential Cybersecurity Controls proven to make the greatest impact. These controls are not theoretical, they’re field-validated against real-world ransomware, insider threats, nation-state intrusions and much more. In this LinkedIn Live session, we’ll share how organizations can use these battle-tested controls to minimize their attack surface, reduce incident impact and losses, and strengthen cyber resilience.

• Discover how these 11 controls consistently disrupt attacker playbooks

• Learn the ways that incident response data shaped and validated these controls

• See how the controls map to frameworks like NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and NIST 800-171

• Hear real-world examples from investigations into ransomware, insider threats, and advanced intrusions

• Get actionable guidance to strengthen your organization’s cyber resilience

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