If you are a federal contractor doing business with any part of the United States government, meeting some level of mandatory minimum cybersecurity requirements is in your future if you want to continue to capture that revenue. The Biden administration
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Chances are your company finds it challenging to navigate the path to improving cybersecurity, including implementing the controls of NIST 800-171 and achieving compliance with CMMC 2.0. What can you do and how do you move forward? We recently sat
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Making sense of the threat landscape can be an exhaustive exercise for companies in the defense industrial base (DIB). Various parts of the government are working together to make sure at the end of the day the warfighter has secure
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In recent times, the government has been promoting meaningful and potentially impactful regulation to drive private sector investment in cybersecurity across every part of the economy, including legislating incident reporting, information sharing, and mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards. Many of these
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Those of us in the IT world have deep knowledge of cybersecurity and understand the importance of CMMC in safeguarding our systems, data, and intelligence from outsiders and nefarious entities. And as members of the defense industrial base, we know
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CMMC has become a cybersecurity framework for the defense industrial base with CMMC C3PAOs (third-party assessor organizations) guiding organizations through this complex compliance landscape. We recently spoke with Tony Buenger, Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance at SecureStrux, a C3PAO
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The recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against SolarWinds is a landmark in regulatory enforcement, signaling a new level of accountability for federal contractors. Cybersecurity standards have long been mandated, particularly for the defense industrial base (DIB), and now
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As your company works to improve its security posture and meet the requirements of NIST 800-171 and CMMC, achieving CMMC compliance with Microsoft Cloud can provide the foundation you need to move forward. Recently Richard Wakeman, the chief architect for
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The government is making progress toward the enforcement of minimum cybersecurity requirements — and with good reason. Chinese hackers stole 60,000 State Department emails in a recent nation-state breach. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program was instituted to ensure
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The defense industrial base (DIB) is facing significant cybersecurity challenges, as bad actors increasingly target sensitive information. Threats like Volt Typhoon, PowerDrop, and nation-state plots highlight the importance of supply chain cybersecurity and show why programs like Cybersecurity Maturity Model
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