Author: Adam Peterson

Adam Peterson is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Real IT Solutions, a managed IT services provider headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With deep expertise in cybersecurity architecture, network infrastructure, and cloud systems, Adam designs the standards and processes that keep client environments stable, secure, and proactively managed.
Standardization Is a Security Control

Cybersecurity & Risk Management

Standardization Is a Security Control: The Unglamorous Discipline That Prevents Most Breaches

by Adam Peterson

Walk any cybersecurity trade show floor and you will see the industry’s favorite story: the next tool will save you. AI-powered this, next-gen that, a new dashboard for every threat. Then read the post-incident reports of actual small-business breaches, and a different story emerges. The way in was an unpatched server everyone forgot about. An […]

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How AI Has Rewritten Social Engineering

Cybersecurity & Risk Management

Phishing Got a Promotion: How AI Has Rewritten Social Engineering — and What Actually Still Stops It

by Adam Peterson

Last year, you could still teach an employee to catch a phishing email the old way: look for the typos, the odd grammar, the generic “Dear Customer” greeting. That training is now obsolete. The uncomfortable milestone arrived quietly — the fraudulent emails became better written than the real ones. AI has not invented a new […]

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Cybersecurity & Risk Management

Inside Our 8-Layer Security Model: Why No Single Tool Can Protect Your Business

by Adam Peterson

In nearly every first conversation I have with a West Michigan business owner, I hear some version of the same sentence: “We should be fine — we have antivirus and a firewall.” It is said with complete confidence, and it is the most dangerous sentence in small-business cybersecurity. A layered security model protects your business […]

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