In 2020, Stradis Healthcare was supplying medical packaging at a time when getting personal protective equipment where it needed to go was critical. Then its shipping operations were disrupted. The problem wasn't ransomware or a sophisticated attack from overseas. It came from access created by someone the company had legitimately trusted. Christopher Dobbins, Stradis' former vice president of finance, had administrator access to systems containing the company's shipping information. Before...

Most businesses know what physical assets they own. But do they know which digital assets they depend on—and who actually controls them?

Weekly Brief | Week of September 21, 2026 The recent stories about AI systems breaking into real companies sound like the beginning of a new era of cyberattacks. But the AI systems used familiar attack techniques, and that is what should concern business leaders most. Google's Gemini reached real companies through password guessing and credentials exposed in public repositories. Anthropic has disclosed incidents involving exposed credentials, SQL injection, and security systems that allowed...