I Was Tired
Of Being Mad.
Now It's Time
For Revenge.

I don't even have to ask why people don't like it. They explain unprompted.

They tell me it's the opposite of how they know me and my team. That we're warm. Helpful. Patient. That "revenge" sounds aggressive in a way that doesn't match who we actually are with our clients.

That's a fair opinion. And they're not wrong about who we are.

But the name isn't aimed at our clients. It's aimed at the people who've been failing them for decades — and at the hackers who are counting on that failure to keep winning.

Let me explain how I got here.

Late last year, I sold my previous company, Mad Data, and decided to start over. Mad Data had a purpose. A mission. To serve and protect.

That passion didn't come from a strategy session or a business plan. It was born in the hallway of an IT conference, years earlier, in a conversation with self-proclaimed industry veterans.

They were bragging about how they protect credit unions and banks. About their thirty-plus years of experience. About how cybersecurity tools are "only necessary for the executives" of a company.

I asked them one question.

You would've thought I asked the dumbest question ever spoken aloud.

I was newer to the cybersecurity side of the industry. I knew that. But it appeared to be a basic, foundational practice: put cybersecurity tools on every user in the company. Not just the C-suite. Everyone.

They rebutted with thirty-plus years of experience. They only protect executives. That's the model.

I walked away from that conversation knowing exactly what my mission was going to be.

Banks. Medical facilities. Dentists. CPAs. Title companies. Construction firms. Non-profits. Manufacturers. Law firms.

All of them depend on some form of IT person to keep them protected and compliant. They put their trust into "veterans" who assure them everything is fine.

But behind the scenes?

Insisting they knew best. Pocketing the margin. Telling the client they were protected.

Then an incident happens. Files are lost. Credentials stolen. Operations halted. The "trusted" provider shrugs. "Oh well. It's gone."

I've watched this happen in person more times than I can count. Business owners come to me asking for help — not because they were careless, but because the people they trusted refused to do the right thing.

That's my why.

You give your trust to someone who promises to protect you. They outsource your protection to the cheapest option they can find — all to pocket a bigger margin — leaving you wide open to the real monsters lurking online, waiting for the next click, the next download, the next mistake.

I was tired of being mad about it.

So now it's time for revenge.