Hacked or Hardened?
The new reality for businesses, written for leaders who want straight answers and practical guidance. No buzzwords. No panic. Just what matters, what to fix first, and how to stay ahead.
What’s inside.
Ten chapters, written in the same plain-spoken voice as the training. Each chapter ends with a one-page decision-tree summary you can hand to your team.
- Why this matters now
- The real shape of small-business cyber risk
- Wire-fraud + vendor BEC: the chain that drains your account
- Voice cloning, deepfakes, and the new social engineering
- Ransomware, leverage, and the recovery clock
- MFA, backups, and the four controls that pay back
- Your incident response plan in one page
- Talking to your insurer, IT vendor, and board
- Building a team that holds
- The first 90 days
Owners, executives, and command staff who need a clear head, not another framework.
If you’ve ever finished a cyber meeting more confused than when you started, this book is for you. If your IT vendor talks past you, this book is for you. If your board is asking what you’re doing about ransomware, this book is for you.
It’s 220 pages. Most readers finish in two evenings. The decision-tree summaries make it usable as a reference long after the first read.
Get the first chapter free.
Includes the opening case study and the “real shape of small-business cyber risk” framework.
A working cyber-fraud supervisor, not a vendor consultant.
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.
Where this fits
- 01 · Before it arrivesHacked or Hardened?Cyber CheckupYou are here
- 02 · At the inbox
- 03 · On the phone at home
- 04 · When it gets through
- 05 · Leading the response