
Plugging Holes and Building Walls
Many organizations have adopted a vulnerability-centric approach to security, meaning they spend all their time plugging holes and building new walls around IT assets. While this is an important aspect of securing your increasingly diversified environment, it has not been effective. New holes are discovered daily and new business platforms emerge in multi-cloud environments that outgrow the old walls. You will be breached. You probably already are. To combat this reality orga

Putting the Client at the Center of What We Do.
At Katalyst, we are fans of Patrick Lencioni. We have used many of his suggested methodologies to help run our business and create organizational clarity. Each year, we set an overarching goal for our company. It’s a theme for the year that serves as a rallying cry for the overall organization. This is called a thematic goal. For 2019 our thematic goal is “putting the client experience at the center of what we do.” We believe that focusing all of our energy around clients

Meet Our Newest Additions to the Kat Krew
Brandon Harms joins Katalyst in the role of Solutions Engineer for Cybersecurity. He has man y years in the IT industry and has held network and security engineering positions for large telecom, DoD, and enterprise organizations throughout the US. He has obtained many industry certifications during his career, including CISSP, GPEN, CCNP, and C|EH. After a decade of engineering and five years as a penetration tester he took on the role of CTO for an MSSP. For last five years

CISOs Mental Health Declining...
While I can’t say that Davey’s article (you can read it here) surprised me, it certainly brings to light the ever-growing talent shortage in the cybersecurity arena. I’ve married his article that reveals 1 in 6 CISO’s (17%) now use alcohol or medication to deal with the stress of their job to another real problem facing my customers; the cybersecurity talent shortage. While both are staggering, the leaders I’ve been working with are turning to non-traditional methods to less