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Husband, Father, CTO and CISO, veteran, patriot, adventurer, ATV fanatic, survivalist and AMERICAN! *Opinions are my own, not my family or employer*

Utah
Joined March 2008
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Yesterday's tragic shooting at Citigroup's Tampa, Florida campus is a sobering reminder that cybersecurity is only one component of protecting an organization. A Citi employee lost their life. Others were injured, More: lnkd.in/gmvvWGvJ
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Happy Monday! ☕🛡️ What if your company's most dangerous security vulnerability isn't inside your network anymore? In a recent post, I discussed the importance of modern penetration testing, ethical hacking, More: sovsecgrp.com/blog/?p=39
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Patching in the news yet again! 📷 FRIDAY SECURITY REALITY CHECK: Your Patch Management Program Is Only as Good as Your Asset Inventory. This week’s PHP2Shell vulnerabilities should be getting the attention of every CISO, CIO.. More: sovsecgrp.com/blog/?p=29
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How do you recover? Happy Wednesday! Your servers are running. Your backups are good. But can your employees safely get to work? The images coming out of Milan, Paris, and other European cities this week are troubling. More here: sovsecgrp.com/blog/?p=26
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Patches? We’ve got no PATCHES!! October 16, 2026 Happy Friday! 📷📷 1,400+ vulnerabilities. One Patch Tuesday. And you thought YOU had a busy week! sovsecgrp.com/blog/?p=18
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Are people the real threat and risk? sovsecgrp.com/blog/?p=16
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Replying to @UDOTTRAFFIC
@UDOTTRAFFIC Any chance on getting the two cameras at the top of SR20 fixed? It would be awesome to see snow conditions before heading over the mountain.
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For that matter, the camera on HWY89 (just north of SR20) and the camera on I-15 just off SR20 -- neither of those are working either.
Financial technology helps enable a secure, fast connection from your bank account to online lenders, apps and other software. Read about the measures @finicity takes to enhance data security: bit.ly/3tGiPuT
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A huge shout-out to @HarmonsGrocery for allowing their team members to have #thanksgiving day off! Love this store, love the meat counter and tomahawk steaks. This is how to take care of your team! #Leadership
Just announced. Informative Research is now offering the Finicity #triplethreat of Verification of Assets, Income, and Employment. Great partners! lnkd.in/gwz8YR2
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Leading the way..
The new #UltraFICOScore is out, and @WSJ breaks the news: @AAndriotis reports how the first-of-its-kind score marks a new move toward greater consumer control in the credit scoring process. on.wsj.com/2q2FnGV
Awesome! Maybe we'll get some real snow this winter! #snowbabysnow
LOOK at all the snow @brianheadresort got with this most recent storm. Who's ready to hit the mountain? #2NewsAM
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🤣🤣🤣 And @realDonaldTrump told him to knock that Russian out! 🤣🤣🤣
Should we get a diamond coolant cup into the works? 🤣💎💎
Thanks for all you do.
As we transfer the management of the fires back to a local type 3 team, We want to thank the communities for all the love and support you have shown everyone during the #polecreekfire and #baldmountainfire #CIIMT1
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