A Huntress co-founder argues against FUD-based security sales tactics, proposing real incident education as an alternative. Using the GozNym cybercrime indictment — which detailed $100M in damages across 13 SMB victims — the post walks through how IT departments and MSPs can use documented real-world breaches to help clients understand actual risk. Each victim case (law firms, churches, paving companies, etc.) is paired with recommended security layers like MFA, breach detection, and DNS filtering. The post also promotes a live hacking demo course at DattoCon19.
