INSIGHTS

Field notes from twenty years of government IT.

Readiness guides, technical briefs, and practitioner perspectives — no fluff.

FedRAMP Rev 5 is not a document swap. It is a rebuild.

The organizations that treated the Rev 4 to Rev 5 transition as a copy-paste exercise are the ones re-doing it now. A practitioner guide to the six control families that actually changed — and the artifacts that expose whether yours are rebuilt or renamed.

Most SLED ransomware incidents start with a vendor, not an email

State, local, and education environments are being compromised through their managed service providers and software supply chain more often than through phishing. Three third-party control patterns that matter — and the CISA guidance that backs them.