$20 billion gone last year. Almost none of it had to be.
Plain-spoken briefings, in-classroom courses for leadership teams, and year-round training your employees will actually do. For owners, executives, and command staff who’ll be expected to lead through cyber events without a security department.
Most of that money left through a single email.
It rarely starts with a hacker. It starts with a message that looks routine: a vendor’s new bank details, an urgent request from the boss, an invoice you were already expecting. The wire goes out before anyone thinks to pick up the phone.
That is business email compromise, and it is the costliest fraud aimed at businesses like yours. The fix is rarely more software. It is knowing the moves, and building the habit of verifying before the money moves.
Three ways to sharpen your team. Pick the depth that fits.
Most clients use more than one over a year. Start with a briefing to read the terrain. Train the leaders in the classroom. Keep the full team sharp with weekly episodes.
Cyber Risk Briefings
- 2 – 4 hours
- Owners and executives who need a clear read on real exposure
- “What should we actually fix first?”
Plain-spoken working session, on-site or virtual. A 90-day action plan you can hand to your team, no enterprise bloat.
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Vault Cyber Academy
- 1 – 2 days
- Command staff and leadership teams who lead incidents, not respond to them
- “My command staff isn’t ready for the next incident.”
Pete teaches on-site at your agency. Nine modules with hands-on tabletops, pre/post assessments so you can show the lift to your board.
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Sentinel Weekly
- 5 min / week
- SMB employee base. The people who click the link
- “My insurer wants proof of training.”
52-week story-driven program. Audit-grade compliance evidence, no gotcha tests, no 3-year contracts. From real fraud patterns, not recycled compliance slides.
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Built by a working cyber-fraud investigator, not a vendor consultancy.
Every briefing, course, and weekly episode is shaped by what actually goes wrong. Investigated firsthand, not summarized from someone else’s report.
A working cyber-fraud supervisor, not a vendor consultant.
US Army veteran. Active sergeant supervising a cyber and fraud investigations team at a large Southern California law-enforcement agency. Ten-plus years inside the cases that hit small businesses, families, and public-sector agencies first. The training is shaped by what actually goes wrong, not what vendor decks predict.
How this actually unfolds.
The mechanics of what attackers do, what targets miss, and what works. Written for owners, executives, and command staff.
Why People Fall for Scams They Already Recognized
After enough years interviewing fraud victims, you start to notice that the most common sentence in the interview is not the one you would expect.
The Arrests Were in MENA. The Targets Weren’t.
INTERPOL took down 201 cybercriminals across thirteen countries. And almost every wire fraud they investigated traced back to a US small business.
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A modern connected vehicle is not a car with software in it. It is a sensor platform with wheels.
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