Field Notes
Practical AI and IT — from the operator's seat.
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Where the Defense Actually Has to Live
The technology to defend your business against financial fraud exists. AI-based email defense, endpoint risk scoring, and the operational discipline to close the gap between what banks catch and what they don't. What's missing is a defense perimeter that includes you. That's what IT CloudLink builds.
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Your Most Valuable Work Is the One AI Can't Touch
Healthcare, legal, and regulated businesses are finding AI useful -- and then hitting a wall the moment a real client or patient enters the picture. Here's why that wall exists, and what it takes to get past it.
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Why Liability Shift Won't Save Your Business
The UK made banks pay for authorized push payment fraud. Losses rose anyway. If your cybersecurity strategy relies on someone else absorbing the loss, the data says it won't hold.
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You Are the Entry Point
Fraud doesn't originate inside your bank. It enters through your business -- through email, credentials, and one employee who clicked the wrong thing. Here's what that means for your liability.
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IT CloudLink Featured in Fintech Bloom: The Fraud Liability Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question
A byline by IT CloudLink founder John (Chris) Rondthaler was published in Fintech Bloom on May 12, 2026 -- arguing that the financial industry's fraud debate is focused on the wrong question.