by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 11, 2026 | Information
When we ask a client how many vendors have access to their systems or data, the first answer is usually a number between five and fifteen. The real number is almost always higher. Sometimes by a lot. That gap is the whole problem. Third party risk is not hard to...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
A client walked us through their security stack a while ago. It was genuinely impressive. Detection and response, a threat intelligence feed, a platform for correlating alerts, all of it recent and all of it costing real money. Then we asked how many administrative...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 6, 2026 | Information
There is a persistent belief among firms new to public sector work that government technology procurement is a price contest. Submit the lowest number that still permits delivery and the award follows. That belief costs bidders a great deal of money, because it is...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 3, 2026 | Information
Ask why technology projects fail and the answers arrive quickly. Scope creep. Weak requirements. Underestimated integration. A vendor who overpromised. Those are real. They are also not what we see most often. The more common failure is quieter and harder to put in a...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
In nearly every business continuity engagement we begin, the plan already exists. It is documented. Leadership has reviewed it. In regulated environments it has been submitted to an examiner or an auditor and accepted. By every visible measure the organization is...
