Blane Erwin

Senior Marketing Manager

Blane leads Fractional CISO’s editorial efforts, helping the team share their cybersecurity knowledge on the blog and monthly newsletter, Tales from the Click. Blane has a background in digital marketing and broadcast journalism. Before joining the Fractional CISO team, he helped run the marketing for electric vehicle retailer Current Automotive, and was a television news reporter for NCTV17. Blane has a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Communication from North Central College.

Education and Certifications:
  • North Central College
    Bachelor’s in Broadcast Communication

Insights from Blane Erwin

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is one of the three universal cybersecurity controls. It is low-cost and high-reward - use it everywhere!
Hardware and software monopolies are juicy targets for hackers, and we're quickly headed towards another period of a web browser
Congratulations to Alexia Antoine of Texas on being awarded Fractional CISO’s 2021 vCISO Cybersecurity Scholarship! Read her cybersecurity journey in

With over a dozen entries into a market that didn’t even exist a decade ago, it’s hard to make sense

For all of Google’s efforts to improve user security, it’s leaving thousands upon thousands of potential vulnerabilities and some actual

Your email provider runs the equivalent of a border checkpoint. It must do this to filter the real emails from

Is your Cyber Insurance really going to cover you?

Only 1/3 of cyber insurance policies actually pay out in incidents. Most companies have cyber insurance policies that insure too little, or too much, and have absurdly low caps and silly exclusions.

To learn more about cyber insurance and determine if you have the right coverage for you, join us for a free vCISO Office Hours session on Tuesday, April 18 at 1 p.m. eastern time. Bring your questions!

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