by Mike Mullin | AI Readiness & Operational Transformation
AI capability isn’t the struggle in most organizations. The models work. The tools are available. The licenses have already been purchased. What organizations struggle with is something far more familiar and far less glamorous. AI rollouts stall because the...
by Mike Mullin | IT Services Provider Management
Most business leaders assume their IT provider is handling everything. Security. Backups. Updates. Monitoring. Compliance. But in practice, most providers handle what’s in their contract – not what’s in your blind spot. And that gap is where risk lives. I see...
by Mike Mullin | Cybersecurity / Cyber Insurance
Most CFOs I talk to still think of cybersecurity as an IT line item. A cost center. Something you fund just enough to keep the lights on. That framing used to work. It doesn’t anymore. Not with the way incidents unfold today. The financial impact is too direct and too...
by Mike Mullin | AI Readiness & Operational Transformation
AI Is Transforming Business – and Quietly Expanding Your Risk Surface AI tools have become the new accelerators of modern work. Employees use them to draft reports, summarize meetings, generate marketing content, analyze data, and speed up workflows. The...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Most finance leaders and property teams assume they’re in decent shape with cybersecurity. Rent payments are encrypted, cameras are online, vendors pass their audits, and the insurance policy is paid up. On the surface, everything looks fine. But there’s a quiet shift...
by Mike Mullin | AI Readiness & Operational Transformation
Why AI Adoption Fails in PE-Backed Portfolios and Commercial Real Estate AI purchases are accelerating across commercial real estate and PE-backed portfolios. A tool gets approved, the contract gets signed, a few internal announcements go out… and then adoption...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Zero Trust has been talked about for years as a “security architecture,” but that framing misses the point. Today, Zero Trust is fundamentally a financial‑risk strategy – one that directly affects insurability, regulatory exposure, operational continuity, and...
by Mike Mullin | IT Services Provider Management
What Is Shadow IT and Why It Matters Shadow IT refers to the use of technology systems, software, or services without explicit approval from a company’s IT or security department. It often starts innocently – an employee downloads a free app to make their job...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Business leaders today face a paradox: technology drives growth, but it also introduces unprecedented risk. Cyber threats, regulatory scrutiny, and the accelerating pace of innovation mean security can no longer be delegated to IT alone. It is a leadership...
