Short, practical explainers for non-technical teams. No jargon, no gatekeeping.
Guide
Reactive security means you learn about a gap when it's exploited — during a breach, a failed audit, or a ransomware event. By then you're paying for incident response, downtime, fines, and lost trust, all at once. Proactive security flips the order: you find and close the gap on your schedule, for a fraction of the cost. The math almost always favors knowing first. Sightline exists to make “knowing first” something any organization can do, not just the ones with a security team.
Perspective
AI is accelerating both sides of the security equation. Attackers use it to find and exploit weaknesses faster and at greater scale. Defenders face a rising tide of new obligations — the EU AI Act, NIST's AI Risk Management Framework, and more. For organizations without a security team, the distance between what they're responsible for and what they understand grows every quarter. The answer isn't more dashboards built for experts. It's translation: turning technical risk into plain language a decision-maker can act on.
Framework explainers
The voluntary backbone for managing cyber risk across six functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. The spine everything else crosswalks to.
The Security Rule's technical safeguards for protecting electronic health information — encryption, access control, audit logging, and more.
The AICPA Trust Services Criteria your customers and investors ask about. Largely about logical access, monitoring, and operations.
Protects student education records. A privacy and process law with few prescriptive technical controls — which is exactly why it's underserved.
EU data-protection obligations, including the security-of-processing requirements that map to technical controls.
A framework for managing the risks of AI systems — increasingly part of the obligations organizations have to track.
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