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A practical 45-minute cyber recovery drill for tribal enterprises, casinos, and growing businesses to test decisions, backups, and communications before an outage.

Most AI pilots begin with a reasonable goal: help a team summarize documents, speed up research, draft communications, analyze information, or support customer service. Risk changes when that tool is connected to email, cloud storage, a knowledge base, or an operational system. At that point, the question is no longer only, “What data could this AI tool see?” It is also, “Which identity gave it access, what can that identity do, and would we notice if that access were misused

AI tools are already appearing in everyday work. Teams use them to summarize meetings, draft communications, analyze documents, support customer service, create marketing content, and help security teams work through large volumes of information. That can be valuable. But before a team uploads sensitive information, connects an AI tool to business systems, or begins using AI to inform an important decision, leadership should make a few clear governance choices. For tribal ent

Vendors help organizations move faster. They support point-of-sale systems, guest services, payroll, IT, cloud applications, security tools, and many other essential operations. But when a vendor can reach your systems or handle sensitive information, that convenience also becomes part of your cyber risk. For tribal enterprises, casinos, and growing businesses, the goal is not to make every vendor complete a 100-page security questionnaire. It is to make sure the organization

Cybersecurity does not begin with a giant project. It begins with knowing whether the few systems your organization cannot afford to lose are protected well enough to keep operating. For tribal enterprises, casinos, and growing businesses, a short leadership check can reveal gaps that deserve attention before they become an outage, a data-exposure event, or a difficult recovery. Set aside 30 minutes this week and ask the people responsible for technology these five questions.

We're proud to announce that NativeCyber has been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the Supplier Clearinghouse for the California Public Utilities Commission's Utility Supplier Diversity Program. This certification verifies our eligibility to supply California's investor-owned utilities — including PG&E, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, and SoCalGas — and strengthens our ability to partner with organizations committed to supplier divers

On August 8, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical command injection vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster — tracked as CVE-2026-8037, with a CVSS score of 9.6 — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after third-party telemetry identified 792 exploitation attempts from 65 unique IP addresses over a 41-day period. Under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, federal civilian agencies had until today, August 10, 2026

There's a persistent misperception that supplier diversity and technical depth are tradeoffs. For state agencies and PUCs evaluating cybersecurity vendors, that framing is wrong — and it costs procurement teams the best vendors.