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Gary Austin

@BigG-TheCreator·Earlington, KY·Joined July 2026

Founder, The Security Gator — I build AxiomLens: board reports, client hand-offs, and insurance-ready evidence, computed and owned locally .

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The Security Gator writes practical GRC for the people who actually do the work — vCISOs, MSPs, MSSPs, and the one-person security team. Weekly field notes on vendor risk, shadow AI, and the mechanics of a security practice: board reports, client hand-offs, evidence that survives an underwriter's email. Written by BigG, founder of The Security Gator LLC and builder of AxiomLens — the GRC command deck you own outright. Locally owned, your data in your hands, one-time license, no monthly rent on your own posture. Free field kits live on the Gatorbyte shelf at thesecuritygator.com; articles here mirror the originals.

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Talking practical GRC with vCISOs, MSPs, and MSSPs — questions about the field kits, AxiomLens, or the weekly Field Notes. Occasional guest posts and podcast spots. Not currently taking consulting engagements.

Gary Austin's blogs

The Security Gatorthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev3 posts

About

The Security Gator writes practical GRC for the people who actually do the work — vCISOs, MSPs, MSSPs, and the one-person security team. Weekly field notes on vendor risk, shadow AI, and the mechanics of a security practice: board reports, client hand-offs, evidence that survives an underwriter's email. Written by BigG, founder of The Security Gator LLC and builder of AxiomLens — the GRC command deck you own outright. Locally owned, your data in your hands, one-time license, no monthly rent on your own posture. Free field kits live on the Gatorbyte shelf at thesecuritygator.com; articles here mirror the originals.

Available for

Talking practical GRC with vCISOs, MSPs, and MSSPs — questions about the field kits, AxiomLens, or the weekly Field Notes. Occasional guest posts and podcast spots. Not currently taking consulting engagements.

Gary Austin's blogs

The Security Gatorthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev3 posts

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GAGary Austininthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 5 min read

Your Backups Are a Hypothesis: The 45-Minute Restore Test

The green checkmark problem Every MSP dashboard has one: the backup column, green for months. Green feels like safety. But a green job proves exactly one thing — the job ran. It does not prove the dat

GAGary Austininthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev·Jul 28 · 4 min read

The Breach You Can't Patch: Build a Vendor-Risk Register in One Afternoon

Around nine thousand schools were breached in one incident this year — and not one of them was running a vulnerable server. Their vendor got popped. The consequences flowed downstream anyway. That's v

GAGary Austininthesecuritygator.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 4 min read

Your Compliance Posture Shouldn't Live in Someone Else's Cloud

There's a specific kind of 11 PM that every MSP tech, vCISO, and one-person security team knows: an auditor, an underwriter, or a big client asked "where does your posture stand?" — and the answer is