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		<title>CHECKLIST: 5 Signs Your Compliance Program is Working Against You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[5 Signs Your Compliance Program is Working Against You Is your compliance program making security harder than it should be? This free checklist helps you identify five warning signs that operational friction is undermining your compliance efforts. Use it to assess your current approach, uncover hidden risks, and determine whether your program is built for ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Reasons to Automate Your CMMC Program</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[7 Reasons to Automate Your CMMC Program See how ConfigOS helps defense contractors reduce the time and effort behind CMMC by automating security configuration implementation, remediation, and sustainment. Explore seven benefits of building a more scalable, sustainable approach to compliance. Download the free data sheet now! ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Checklist: Baseline Integrity Check</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baseline Integrity Check A quick self-assessment to determine whether your security baseline is aligned with operational reality. Use this checklist to assess whether your baseline is still serving as a reliable foundation for security, compliance, and continuous monitoring. Download the Checklist now!]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What to Look for in a STIG Automation Solution Before You Buy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What to Look for in a STIG Automation Solution Before You Buy You Can’t Afford to Choose the Wrong Solution Not all automation is created equal, especially when it comes to cybersecurity compliance. Before you purchase a STIG automation solution, make sure it actually delivers on coverage, speed, scale, and simplicity. This checklist will help. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What to Look for in a CIS Benchmarks Automation Solution Before You Buy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks Automation Solution Evaluation Checklist Simplify implementation. Strengthen security. Spend smarter. CIS Benchmarks offer a proven framework for hardening your systems — but getting started (and staying compliant) isn’t always easy. Without the right automation solution, teams often end up stuck in spreadsheets, buried in scripts, or dependent on costly consultants. That’s why we ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Customer Success Story: From Failed CORA Audit to Continuous Compliance with Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Failed CORA Audit to Continuous Compliance with Automation Failing a CORA audit isn’t just a setback. It can put mission-critical operations, contracts, and organizational trust at risk. That was the reality for a Department of Energy lab supporting national security programs, facing a short window to remediate findings before a follow-up audit. Their existing ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>USE CASE: Simplifying OT Compliance Without Disruption for Fortune 50 Oil &#038; Gas Company</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simplifying OT Compliance Without Disruption Operational Technology environments don’t operate like traditional IT. Systems can’t be freely modified. Downtime isn’t an option. And yet, organizations are still expected to understand their cybersecurity posture and align to standards like CIS Benchmarks. So how do you measure compliance without introducing risk? This use case explores how a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Take months out of your CORA prep with ConfigOS.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Take months out of your CORA prep with ConfigOS. Established in 2010 by DISA, the Command Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI) was known to cause sweat to break out on the brows of cybersecurity professionals throughout the DoD. In March 2024, the DoD renamed the program. Today, it’s called the Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA). SteelCloud’s ConfigOS tool ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>INDUSTRY BRIEF: The Operational Policy Breakdown &#8211; Why Hardening Fails After the Audit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Operational Policy Breakdown Most organizations don’t fail at hardening during the audit — they fail at sustaining it afterward. Baselines are documented, findings are closed, and dashboards show green. Yet over time, policy drifts from enforcement, validation falls out of sync, and confidence begins to erode. What looks secure on paper becomes fragile in ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Customer Success Story: Going Nuclear on STIG Compliance and Achieving Game-Changing Results</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/going-nuclear-on-stig-compliance-and-achieving-game-changing-results/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Customer Success Story: Going Nuclear on STIG Compliance and Achieving Game-Changing Results Key Department of Energy (DoE) groups responsible for stewarding the nation’s nuclear stockpile and supporting national security missions are mandated to implement the federal government’s strictest cybersecurity standards: Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). But manual tailoring, quarterly updates, limited reporting capabilities, and prolonged ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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