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		<title>The Educator’s Guide to CIS Benchmarks Adoption</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks for higher education: how universities standardize hardening across campuses, support GLBA and PCI DSS, and stop configuration drift.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education Six Steps to Build More Sustainable Cybersecurity in Higher Education Colleges and universities are balancing growing workloads, increasing technology complexity, staffing challenges, and continued budget pressure. EDUCAUSE has described these conditions as contributing to a “cycle of reactivity,” in which immediate needs consume the time and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education (Updated September 2026) The consequences stopped being hypothetical some time ago. In February 2026, a ransomware attack took down the IT systems and electronic health record at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Clinics closed across the state. Roughly 650 surgeries were delayed. Staff worked from paper ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Making The Business Case for CIS Benchmarks Automation in SLED</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Making The Business Case for CIS Benchmarks Automation in SLED (Updated September 2026) The attack pattern against state, local and education organizations has separated from every other sector. For ransomware, Comparitech recorded higher-education attacks rising more than 8 percent in the first half of 2026 against the second half of 2025, even as K-12 attacks ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed (Updated September 2026) Imagine walking through the longest, darkest, most dangerous alleyway in town every night—with wads of cash sticking out of your pockets. You’ll make it through safely many times. Until you don’t. That is the kind of risk you take with hackers each day ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Is eMASS? Understanding DoD Cybersecurity Authorization and Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[eMASS is the DoD system for managing cybersecurity authorization. See how eMASS supports RMF, ATO, STIG evidence and CSRMC — and build stronger packages.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SERIES: A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO Key Features &#8211; Automated Endpoint Grouping</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO Key Features &#8211; Automated Endpoint Grouping Written by Jamie McCoard, Development Manager, SteelCloud As organizations expand their compliance infrastructure, it’s easy for the number of managed endpoints to jump from a handful to thousands. Manually organizing newly deployed systems, assigning policies, and configuring monitoring schedules can become a time-consuming administrative task ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CIS Benchmarks vs STIGs: Which Is Right for You?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[STIGs are mandatory for DoW systems; CIS Benchmarks are the commercial standard. Compare both and see how to keep either baseline continuously enforced.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SERIES: A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO Key Features &#8211; GPO Conflict Identification</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO Key Features &#8211; GPO Conflict Identification Written by Jamie McCoard, Development Manager, SteelCloud In many Microsoft enterprise setups, Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are used to manage system settings and security across the organization. GPOs are super helpful for keeping things consistent, but they can also get ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybersecurity Compliance Has to Outlast the People and Systems Behind It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity Compliance Has to Outlast the People and Systems Behind It SteelCloud advisor Mike Korgan draws on decades of experience across defense, intelligence and technology to examine how organizations can sustain compliance as environments, priorities and responsibilities change. Cybersecurity compliance is rarely an organization’s primary mission. A defense agency exists to support national security. A ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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