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Justin Kirsch

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Tech Due Diligence for Fintech Mortgage Startups: An MSP's Perspective

Global Fintech Investment Topped $53 Billion in 2025. Most Mortgage Startups Still Fail Tech Diligence. Global fintech investment rose 21% in 2025, reaching $53 billion across nearly 6,000 deals. Mortgage tech is growing at a 25% CAGR toward a $35...

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Is Your Interface CFPB-Proof? What Mortgage Teams Need to Know About HMDA Compliance

The CFPB Stepped Back in 2025. State Regulators Did Not. When Acting Director Russell Vought froze CFPB operations in February 2025 and proposed 90%...

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Scaling Pains or Scaling Gains? IT Metrics That Predict Mortgage Growth Success

Commercial mortgage origination volume is projected to hit $805.5 billion in 2026, a 27% jump from 2025's $633.7 billion, according to the Mortgage...

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Scaling Smarter: How to Tackle Multi-Branch Lending Challenges with Calyx

A recent Ncontracts survey of financial institutions found that 49% experienced a third-party cyber incident in the past year. For multi-branch...

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May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Netlogon + DNS RCEs Banks Must Patch Now

Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 137 vulnerabilities, including two CVSS 9.8 critical RCEs in Windows Netlogon (CVE-2026-41089) and...

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Better Lending Starts with Smarter IT: Why Calyx + Managed Services Is the Power Combo You Didn't Know You Needed

Calyx recently integrated Asurity Technologies into its Point LOS, giving lenders real-time compliance monitoring and automated closing document...

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The Exploit Part 3 - The Clone Trap. Anatomy of vendor supply chain breaches affecting credit unions, banks, and mortgage companies, with Microsoft 365 management as the supply chain reduction strategy.

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The Exploit: Anatomy of a Modern Cyber Heist Part 3 - The Clone Trap

In This Article SitusAMC: When JPMorgan's Mortgage Data Sat on Someone Else's Server Marquis Software: One Unpatched Firewall, 74 Financial...

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Microsoft Purview DLP for AI: The Three Configurations Banks, Credit Unions, and Mortgage Companies Must Set Up Before Their First Copilot Prompt or Foundry Agent Goes Live

In This Article The Three Purview DLP Surfaces You Now Configure for AI Why May 2026 Is the Inflection Point for AI DLP Surface One: DLP for the...

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The Exploit: Anatomy of a Modern Cyber Heist Part 2 - The Perfect Phish

In This Article Tycoon2FA: 13 Million Phishing Emails in a Single Month How Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks Defeat Standard MFA NYDFS Part 500 Is Now...

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Cyber kill chain attack on financial institutions: Mr. Cooper, Wells Fargo, Marquis Software breaches showing how stolen credentials and reconnaissance fuel modern cyber heists

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The Exploit: Anatomy of a Modern Cyber Heist Part 1 - The Leak in the Shadows

In This Article The Mr. Cooper Breach: 14.7 Million Records Stolen How Stolen Credentials Fuel the Dark Web Pipeline The Reconnaissance Playbook:...

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