In this episode of the Cyber Playbook for Business, host Corey Bilton is "crossing the streams" between your firewall and your sales funnel. Specifically for our MSP friends. Learn how to stop treating security as an IT expense and start using it as a sales enablement tool to land Fortune 500 "ciompanies" skip the 300-question vendor questionnaires, and skate where the puck is going in a world of absolute zero trust.

Welcome to the Objective Advantage. In this episode, host Corey explores the critical, yet often overlooked, leadership skill of Objectivity. We are living in an era of unprecedented information abundance and severe truth scarcity. Corey breaks down the cognitive science behind why smart, experienced leaders still make avoidable, expensive decisions due to confirmation bias and the "illusion of truth" effect.

Hackers, billionaire CEOs, and broke entrepreneurs all get the exact same resource: 24 hours. The only difference is how they use it. In this episode of The Cyber Playbook for Business, we’re unpacking why "I don't have time" isn't a productivity issue, it’s a revenue and security crisis. Drawing lessons from Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, and Tony Robbins, we explore why treating cybersecurity and business strategy as a "someday" task guarantees you'll be left behind. Stop trading your gold-level time for copper-level work. Tune in to learn how to stop reacting, start protecting, and avoid being the "first loser."

Welcome to Episode 10, our most direct and actionable episode yet. If you only listen to one episode this year, make it this one. Today, we tackle the ultimate business killer: the illusion of "preparation."

Discover why perfectionism is just laziness and fear in disguise, and why momentum is the single most important metric for founders and creators. We're tearing down the excuses keeping you stuck and giving you a practical, do-this-today playbook to buy back your time.

Headlines are noisy. Operations are not.

In this episode, Corey breaks down five real, dated economic and market stories and translates them into decisions you can make this week if you lead an SMB or mid‑market business.

Using verified datapoints (Canada’s CPI mix, the Bank of Canada rate hold and growth outlook, fast-moving tariff/surcharge rules with USMCA/CUSMA exemptions, Hormuz-driven shipping/fuel risk, and a sharp spike in DRAM/SSD contract pricing), Corey connects them to the same three internal levers every leadership team can control:

Pricing & demand

Cash & financing

Contracts & supply-chain dependencies

In this special edition of Cyber Playbook for Business, Corey Bilton speaks directly to dealership principals, owners, GMs, controllers, and fixed ops leaders about the risk that’s changing auto retail: you don’t have to be “hacked” to be hurt.

When your operation runs on centralized platforms, DMS, marketplaces, and enterprise back-office systems, one vendor incident can become a one-to-many disruption that hits your store’s ability to sell, service, and get paid.

Corey breaks down three ecosystem-level cyber events tied to dealership and auto-marketplace associated companies since 2024:

CDK Global ransomware (June 2024): the “single vendor, thousands of dealers” outage moment

Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day tied to Cox Enterprises/Cox Automotive-related operations (Aug–Oct 2025 timeline): enterprise compromise, delayed detection, data exposure risk

CarGurus breach listing (February 2026): large-scale marketplace data exposure that can be weaponized for phishing, impersonation, and fraud

Then, he delivers a practical owner’s playbook: the questions to ask vendors, how to build a real “manual mode” binder, how to harden identity and privileged access, and a clear 30-day course-correct plan to reduce downtime, blast radius, and recovery time.

Tonight’s matchup isn’t about sports, it’s about chaos versus cohesion. In this special Olympic edition of The Cyber Playbook for Business, host Corey Bilton takes you to the slopes and rinks of the 2026 Milano Cortina Games to uncover the systems behind the gold medals.

Drawing on incredible true stories from Federica Brignone’s injury comeback to the synchronized trust of Canada’s speed skating "Eh Team" Corey reveals how elite athletic habits translate directly to business success. Whether you’re leading a startup or scaling a company, this episode provides a blueprint for building a team that doesn't just survive pressure, but thrives in it.

A contractor’s access lingers months later, 180 virtual servers vanish. A former employee pulls internal investing reports tied to 8.2 million customers. And in the UK, a business is effectively deleted overnight. This episode is a true-crime-style breakdown of the offboarding failures that turn ex-employees into your next breach and the shutdown sequence to stop it.

When a business “goes dark,” it’s rarely a cinematic hacker break-in. It’s usually a human moment: a rushed click, a reused password, a missed process. In Episode 5 of The Cyber Playbook for Business, Corey breaks down the real operating system behind security in 2026: company culture. Because cybersecurity is a team sport, and the culture you build when nobody’s watching is what determines whether a near-miss stays a near-miss or becomes a breach.

Shadow AI and Shadow IT are quietly creeping into SMBs—through “free trials,” unauthorized apps, and employees pasting sensitive data into AI tools to move faster. In this episode of The Cyber Playbook for Business, Corey will break down what Shadow AI/IT is, why it’s exploding across dealerships, transportation, finance, law, construction, and manufacturing and share three story-driven cases showing how it can impact clients, teams, and the bottom line, plus a practical playbook to regain control without slowing the business.