CMMC Compliance for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)
What Is The CMMC Ecosystem? The collaborative collection of people, governing bodies, and organizations involved with CMMC is known as the CMMC Ecosystem. What is the DIB (Defense Industrial Base)? The DIB is made up
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What Is CMMC? The CMMC Model was developed in part because of DOD’s need for assurance that the DIB is wholly conforming and adhering to the cybersecurity standards for CUI and FCI, outlined in NIST
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Cyber Security in Higher Education
Why is higher education more susceptible to cyber-attacks? Universities, historically, have been particularly prone to cyber-attacks. During a pandemic, with an increased reliance on remote learning, this issue has only been exacerbated. In fact, education
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Missing Profits – Music Artists Defense Against Cyber Attacks
Spotify is one of the world’s most successful and largest music streaming platforms. Established in 2006, since then, the service has grown to host over 82 million songs and podcasts, has 182 million paid subscription
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The Unseen War in Cyberspace – Navy Turns Towards Cyber Security Studies
On May 13th, 2022, Governor Larry Hogan signed over 100 new bills into order, the majority focusing on bolstering defenses against cybersecurity attacks that have been occurring in greater and grander succession. In 2019, hackers
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Security Incident Management
Contain and learn. Shoot for NEVER. EVER. Plan for whenever. SteelToad’s clients manage security incidents utilizing our strategies outlined below. Preparation Develop Incident response methodologies typically emphasize preparation—not only establishing an incident response capability so
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Facial Recognition Technology – A Slippery Slope
Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is a $9.6 billion dollar industry (TechHQ, 2022) that was first developed in the 1960s as a computer program to detect human characteristics and features. Since it has been adopted by
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From the Physical to the Digital – The Enormous Smithsonian Archives Migration
The Smithsonian Institution is known for having one of the largest and most comprehensive physical archives in the country. Varying from American history to scientific research to cultural exhibits, the Smithsonian has millions of records
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Good News for CMMI Organizations Seeking to Adopt CMMC
Maturity Models like the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and the Cybersecurity Model Maturity Certification (CMMC) are used to understand the current maturity level of an enterprise or Organization Unit (OU) and guide the enterprise
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