Sentinel Vault helps owners, executives, and command staff understand cyber risk and make the right next call. Without jargon, fear tactics, or sales pressure. Every briefing, course, and weekly episode is shaped by what actually goes wrong in real cases, not what vendor decks predict.
US Army veteran. Active sergeant supervising a cyber and fraud investigations team at a large Southern California law-enforcement agency. Ten-plus years inside the cases that hit small businesses, families, and public-sector agencies first. The training is shaped by what actually goes wrong, not what vendor decks predict.
Built for busy owners and small teams who don’t have a security department to lean on.
Identify the most likely ways your organization actually gets hit and translate that risk into plain business impact. Downtime, lost money, customer trust, liability. No abstract threat models.
Focus on the safeguards that make the biggest difference for small teams: stronger logins, safer email, reliable backups, vendor hygiene, and an incident plan you can actually use under pressure.
Everyone gets aligned, not just IT. Owners, supervisors, and the people who click the link learn what matters, what to watch for, and how to make good decisions when something goes wrong.
Drawn from active investigations, anonymized. These are the attack chains that hit small businesses, families, and public-sector agencies most often.
Industry training that backs the analysis. The list matters less than the case experience, but it helps explain why the training holds up under audit scrutiny.
Pete’s book, Hacked or Hardened? The New Reality for Businesses, is the same plain-spoken material in long form. Straight answers and practical guidance for leaders who want to lead through cyber risk, not just respond to it.
About the book →Sentinel Vault is the consulting + training practice. Adjacent ventures support the same mission. Making the security picture legible to the people who have to make the calls.
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