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October 11, 2025 | Bellingham, Wash.

Fall is finally here, and with it comes necessary but unglamorous chores: raking leaves, storing summer clothes, winterizing the boat. We're all spending time preparing for the season ahead in our personal lives, which got us wondering: are you doing the same for your cybersecurity program?

Some Q4 / “Fall” Security Chores:

• Review user access to remove departed employees and inactive accounts;

• Schedule that tabletop exercise you've been postponing;

• Revisit 2025 goals and identify what's still outstanding;

• Audit your backup and recovery processes before year-end; and

• Update your incident response contact list.

In this time of constant change, we hope you’re making space to prepare for what’s ahead in ways that work for you both at work and at home. Balance is important, hard to find, and harder to maintain. Putting in those baseline pieces can really help ensure a smooth transition when colder, darker days are around the corner.

As always, we're here if you need us.

Stay Intentional,

Shay, Keith, and the
Intentional Cybersecurity Team

Resource Corner

New Service: Dedicated Security Engineers

Your security program is in transition: new leadership, changing vendors, or building something real for the first time. You need more than advice. You need someone senior who can step in, assess the landscape, and roll up their sleeves to start driving results immediately.

Our dedicated engineers embed with your team for 3, 6, or 12 months, bringing you:

• Strategic vision paired with hands-on execution from day one;

• Coordination across IT teams, MSPs, and security requirements;

• Technical implementation support for tools and migrations;

• Policy development that actually works for your organization; and

• The predictability of a monthly fixed rate.

Intentional Brief Feature: Building A Durable Security Program

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

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

While topics change with the news cycle, we've been highlighting how the basics of a security program can support both risk management and compliance efforts. Below are two of our latest on building security programs that deliver resilience and results.

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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