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		<title>What the CMMC Phase II Suspension Means for Contractors and How to Stay Ready</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What the CMMC Phase II Suspension Means for Contractors and How to Stay Ready On July 13, 2026 the Department of War announced significant changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. CMMC Phase II requirements that were supposed to go into full effect on November 10, 2026 have been suspended while the Department ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>STIG Remediation: A Practical Guide to Achieving and Maintaining DISA Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[STIG Remediation: A Practical Guide to Achieving and Maintaining DISA Compliance For those in the DoD or other sensitive government agencies, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) are the foundation of a secure system configuration. STIG compliance can also be the bane of your existence. This DISA framework is extremely successful at reducing vulnerabilities across operating ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CIS Benchmarks Explained: A Practical Guide to Implementation and Continuous Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks explained: levels, covered platforms, a 7-step implementation plan, and how automation keeps you continuously compliant.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unified Automation:  The Key to Baseline Integrity and Hardening that Holds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unified Automation: The Key to Baseline Integrity and Hardening that Holds Cybersecurity readiness is often framed as a point-in-time execution challenge. Policies are written. Baselines are hardened. Audits are passed. And readiness is achieved—at least for the moment. But then security postures that appeared strong during your assessment start to decay in day-to-day operations. Baselines ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SERIES: A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO’s Key Features – AutoSelect</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO’s Key Features – AutoSelect Written by Jamie McCoard, Development Manager, SteelCloud In modern enterprise environments, systems are constantly changing. New applications are installed, operating systems are upgraded, servers take on new roles, and endpoint configurations evolve over time. Managing compliance across these dynamic environments can quickly become challenging when administrators ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The CMMC Compliance Checklist: How To Prepare for Your DIB Audit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The CMMC Compliance Checklist: How To Prepare for Your DIB Audit For years, many defense contractors treated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) as a future problem to address when enforcement arrived. Now enforcement has arrived, and SteelCloud has prepared a CMMC compliance checklist to guide you through current requirements, beginning with the upcoming deadlines. While ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SERIES: A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO’s Key Features &#8211; VeraLogix ™</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SERIES: A Peek Inside ConfigOS MPO’s Key Features &#8211; VeraLogix ™ Written by Jamie McCoard, Development Manager, SteelCloud MPO’s VeraLogix™ feature makes scripted compliance checks and remediations easier to adapt to real-world Windows and Linux environments by separating user-adjustable inputs from the underlying script logic. By exposing key variables (such as names, versions, paths, and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Administrator&#8217;s Guide to System Hardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 23:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Administrator&#8217;s Guide to System Hardening If cybercrime were gross national product, its revenue would constitute the world&#8217;s third largest economy at $10.5 trillion per year, surpassing the wealth of every nation except the US and China. With an attack occurring every 39 seconds somewhere in the world, you are, beyond a shadow of a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Mission to Defeat the Bad Guys Drives This Career Navy Veteran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Mission to Defeat the Bad Guys Drives This Career Navy Veteran When you operate in a sensitive, mission-critical environment, your cybersecurity can’t be treated like a checklist or point-in-time exercise. It has to be operational. Resilient. Continuous. And aligned to the realities of the mission. Nobody understands that better than Ar-Raheem Ellis. As Senior ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Continuous Compliance in Complex Lab Environments</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Continuous Compliance in Complex Lab Environments: NLIT Summit 2026 Takeaways The Department of Energy (DoE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) labs operate across diverse, distributed, and mission-critical environments that span research systems, manufacturing enclaves and classified networks dedicated to national security, nuclear nonproliferation and emergency response. Cybersecurity is critical to those operations. On ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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