Data Defenders, LLC

Our mission is to aid corporations & election jurisdictions in protecting the operational integrity of their IT infrastructure & election systems.

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Many small business owners assume their existing policy covers a cyberattack. Standard commercial policies typically exclude cyber events by name.

Free session on #CyberInsurance for SMB owners - June 3, 3PM CDT

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Our CEO: 7 challenges, one root cause because cybersecurity was built as parts, not an operation.

Episode 8 of The #CyberResilienceReport

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Spotify: https://t.co/yQOpDerSI8

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7 challenges. 3 compounding themes. One broken model most organizations are still running on.

Ep 8 of The #CyberResilienceReport explains why the old cybersecurity playbook fails — and what an operations-first model actually looks like.

#DataDefenders #MCOP

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Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/jniFnAoLVh

Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/O73kyrVaA0

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7 challenges. 3 compounding themes. One broken model most organizations are still running on.

Episode 8 of The #CyberResilienceReport explains why the old cybersecurity playbook fails — and what an operations-first model actually looks like.

#DataDefenders #MCOP #RegionalSOC

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When you let someone go, do you cut their system access before or after the convo?

If it's after, there's a window and it's exploitable.

Verizon 2024 DBIR: 35% of breaches involved internal actors.

Watch the @SCOREMentors session: https://t.co/SDHn20haBk

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Watch the full clip: https://t.co/dgk5meQPOp

Read the companion blog: https://t.co/VyEJcFnpFn

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Aurora, IL plugged in the sensor
It immediately found legacy devices nobody tracked, shadow IT gear quietly sitting on the network, & systems running vulnerable software
A long list of unknowns became a prioritized action list Hours, not months
They went from guessing to knowing

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The breach you find today probably didn't happen today.
IBM: average time to identify a breach in 2024 - 194 days. More than 6 months undetected.

Cyrus Walker on what to do about it in the free #SCOREMentorsChicago session recording: https://t.co/SDHn20haBk

#DataDefenders #MCOP

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Watch or listen to the full episode:
https://t.co/dgk5meQPOp

Read the technical breakdown:
https://t.co/LlMceD0dr4

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"You plug it into your core network and it just starts working."

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Real-time device discovery → endpoint detection coverage.

Software visibility → patch compliance rate.

Authentication monitoring → MFA coverage.

Hours, not months.

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Watch the session:
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Cybercrime: $10.8 trillion in 2026. Third largest economy on earth.

Small businesses are the primary target class, not incidentally. Intentionally.

Cyrus Walker covered this in the March SCORE Mentors Chicago session: https://t.co/SDHn20hIqS

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Are you a CISO at a municipality, hospital, or nonprofit?

9 metrics to track. 1 visibility gap to close. 0 operational disruption to get there.

Operational reality - not theory.

Read the complete guide:

1) https://t.co/3oC3ndNeD4

2) https://t.co/LlMceD0dr4

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Watch the session:
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Spotify: https://t.co/Iz26qr1V4p

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CrowdStrike: average cyberattack moves from entry to network takeover in 29 minutes. The fastest? 27 seconds.

Our March #SCOREMentorsChicago session covers what small business owners need to do before that clock starts. Links below.

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Watch or listen to the full discussion:
YouTube: https://t.co/dgk5meQPOp
Spotify: https://t.co/KRGEMBOZMv

Read the technical breakdown:
https://t.co/LlMceD0dr4

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"It's just trying to be quiet. Collecting, collecting, collecting."

Rogue devices don't announce themselves. Agentless monitoring finds them anyway — no IP address required.

Lean teams. Enterprise-grade visibility.

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