Cash in the Cyber Sheets: Making Money From Being Secure & Compliant
Shattering the myth that security and compliance are just necessary evils and profit-sucking business bottlenecks, “Cash in the Cyber Sheets” reveals how they’re actually launchpads for profit and how they lay the groundwork for golden opportunities. Dive between the spreadsheets with James Bowers II, CEO of Input Output each week as he unzips the secrets of turning obligatory fine print and security management into financial foreplay. It's time to make security, compliance, and risk management your business bedrock – turning them into strategic assets that aren't just about avoiding risks, but about creating value, sharpening your operations, and yes, padding your pockets.
Episodes
77 episodes
#77: The Digital Defense Playbook for Parents: How to Keep Kids Safe Online
In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we’re trading ransomware for real parenting — because the biggest threat some families face isn’t just phishing emails, it’s predators hiding behind screens.This week, we’re t...
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#76: Read The Fine Print: 3 Traps That Kill Cyber Insurance Claims
In this episode of Cash In The Cyber Sheets, we unpack three clauses that quietly decide whether your cyber insurance pays when it counts. No scare tactics, just the fine print you actually need to verify before a breach becomes a bill....
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#75: The Two Email DNS Gotchas Costing You Deliverability
This shorter episode gets right to the point. We cover two high-impact issues we keep finding when helping clients clean up email deliverability. First, DKIM selectors. Too many teams set up one selector for one sending platform and for...
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#74: No Breach, Big Trouble: FCA Risks in Healthcare
Cybersecurity headlines love a good hack story. This week, we talk about something far sneakier that can cost you plenty even when nothing gets “hacked.” On Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we unpack how the False Claims Act can bite health ca...
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#73: Cyber Insurance Review For Real Life
Think your cyber insurance has you covered? This episode pokes at the fine print that turns big promises into small payouts. We spotlight the exclusions that quietly gut claims, the sublimits that disappear faster than you can say “fore...
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#72: False Claims Act Meets Cybersecurity Compliance
In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we’re talking about something that should make every contractor, healthcare provider, and federally funded business sit up straight: the False Claims Act (FCA) is of...
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#71: Incident Response Plan Essentials
Welcome back to Cash in the Cyber Sheets, where we talk about the messy, practical, and sometimes painfully honest side of cybersecurity. In this episode, we’re tackling a challenge that every organization faces sooner ...
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#70: Top 5 Reasons SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Fail
Cash in the Cyber Sheets is where small and midsize business owners finally get the straight talk on cybersecurity without the jargon, the scare tactics, or the thousand-page compliance manuals. Each week, we pull back ...
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#69: SPF, DKIM & DMARC Explained for Small Business
Have you ever sent an important business email and wondered if it actually made it to your client’s inbox? Or worse, discovered later that your emails were quietly landing in spam? You’re not alone. Every day, small and mid-sized busine...
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#68: Cash in the Cyber Sheets - AI Policy Development
Welcome to Cash in the Cyber Sheets, a channel dedicated to helping organizations understand and strengthen their information security programs. Hosted by James from Input Output, we provide practical insights into...
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#67: Cash in the Cyber Sheets - SPF Blunders
Welcome to Cash in the Cyber Sheets, the podcast where we cut through the noise of cybersecurity and talk about the things that actually hit your business where it hurts — your bottom line. In this episode, we dive into...
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#66: InfoSec Program Pillars | Plan, Do, Check, Act
In this shorter solo episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, James breaks down the four core structures often referred to as the Plan Do Check Act cycle that serve as the foundation of a successful information security program. Wh...
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#65: The Hidden Dangers of Personal AI in the Workplace
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere — from helping us write emails faster to predicting our next snack craving. But when it comes to workplace security and compliance, “everywhere” isn’t always a good thing. In Episode 65 of Cash ...
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#64: Writing Security Policies That Work for Business
So you've got frameworks, regulatory requirements, client expectations, and a million checkboxes to tick... but how do you actually write policies that make sense, get followed, and don’t make your staff cry? That’s exactly wha...
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#63: Lockouts, Cold Storage Fails & Upgrade Pitfalls
Ever had that heart-stopping moment when you can’t get into your password manager? In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we’re back with Bryan Barnhart from Infiltration Labs to talk about exactly that—because it almost ...
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#62: What a Forensics Expert Teaches About Compliance
In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we dive into the gritty, behind-the-scenes realities of digital forensics and compliance with guest Bryan Barnhart of Infiltration Labs. Bry...
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#61: Locked Out of Life | Password Management Wake-Up
We nearly locked ourselves out of our own password manager. Yep. Us. The security professionals. If that doesn't make you tighten your digital shoelaces, nothing will.In Episode 61 of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we're pull...
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#60: AI, Terms and Conditions, and the Vendor Rodeo
In Episode 60 of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we dive into the rapidly morphing world of AI and its increasingly tangled role in third-party software, supplier relationships, and data access controls.Remember when vetting v...
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#59: Domain Registrar Risks | Doing It Right Gone Wrong
In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we dive into a real-world experience with domain registrars—those gatekeepers of your online identity who are supposed to help keep you safe and sound on the internet. But what happe...
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#58: 16 Billion Records Breached – What Now?
Another day, another “largest breach in history.” This time, it’s reportedly 16 billion records leaked in a massive data dump that has cybersecurity pros scrambling and the rest of the world asking, “Was I in i...
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#57: Common SPF Pitfalls and How to Solve Them
If your marketing emails keep ghosting your prospects, it might not be a CRM problem, it could be your SPF record playing games.In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheet, we're diving into the murky waters of
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#56: Classify This | Why Data Classification Matters
In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we take a bold step away from convention and dig into one of the most misunderstood yet crucial components of an information security program: data classification levels.Most ...
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#55: DMARC Compliance Killed the Creative… Or Did It?
Think DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are just for your IT team? Think again. In this episode of Cash in the Cyber Sheets, we’re flipping the script on the idea that information security is the enemy of marketing. Spoiler alert: it’s actu...
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