Tentacle Blog

In this list, we’ve researched and aggregated some of the most common types of cyber attacks to explore their characteristics and steps to prevention....

Deep learning neural networks (or more specifically “transformer models”), like the one powering our import tool at Tentacle, are able to not only begin to build a graph of words like the above example, they are also able to understand how those words might change...

I’ve been laser-focused on the information security space now for the last three years since launching Tentacle, though ideated on the Tentacle concept for many years prior while buried deep in security questionnaires...

For any IT leader using CIO.com’s resolution list as a guide, I’ve provided specific ways, when it comes to information security, that Tentacle will help achieve your (IT) resolution list for 2023...

I could not wrap up this blog series without at least taking some time to acknowledge and speak to the amount of effort that is truly required to pull off a proper information security program...

In Part 1 of “Altruism in Information Security” I shared my thoughts on how I find the concept of altruism to be woven into the fabric of the ideal Information Security program...

Altruism and Information Security; two terms not commonly used together - the first term not often used to describe the foundational philosophy of the latter...

Let’s start with the basics: a foundational definition of Information Security management is the process of developing, maintaining, and continuously improving processes...

The idea of formalized Information Security leveraging a security framework isn’t new. As study after study is released detailing the continuous increase of cyber security threats faced by all organizations...

Security posture is a measure of your organization’s overall security effectiveness. The term can be a little confusing, because it doesn’t just refer to how good your company is at...

The timing of when I started Tentacle, associated with what was really making the headlines in our society, and my previous lessons learned from YourCause, inspired me to launch this business...

There’s no getting around them - and if I’m honest - even my inner salesperson, driven by the speed of the sale, knows filling out security questionnaires is an essential component...

I jumped headfirst into the Information Security space as a result of being pummeled for years by the gross inefficiencies and...

Since starting Tentacle, I have been standing on my soap box preaching the absurdity of the state of today’s information security market...

Over the years, I have grown increasingly frustrated and disappointed with the approaches taken by the industry...

Data breaches, network software exploitation, utility shutdowns: even a cursory glance at headlines today is enough to send a shiver up the most confident executive’s spine...

In starting my last business (YourCause), I had assumed that once I was able to build our core product to a certain point...

From January to March, our Equality Learning Group held its first book club and read Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson...

This blog post is not intended to be my confessional or my therapeutic cleanse for the last 44 years, but rather my attempt to pass along a few lessons...

I am not here to endorse or criticize the outgoing administration, nor am I seeking to push my political views onto anybody who might read this. We all...