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		<title>How to Achieve Cyber Readiness in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to Achieve Cyber Readiness in 2026 Each year, bad actors increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber attacks. They uncover new vulnerabilities and increasingly use AI to multiply their efforts. Many organizations are still responding with manual processes and fragmented tools. Scanners can surface issues, but remediation, validation, and reporting often remain manual. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: Synchronize Cyber Compliance &#038; IT Organizations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Synchronize Cyber Compliance &#38; IT Organizations Unifying CIS Benchmarks Implementation Automation &#38; Content If you’ve ever felt like establishing and maintaining CIS Benchmarks compliance is like running an obstacle course, that’s only because it is. When CIS Benchmark content and policies aren’t unified across all systems, you can’t achieve full and unified compliance. And while automation can ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: Realizing the Promise of Zero Trust</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hardening is foundational with Zero Trust. Automation helps.  Establishing Zero Trust goes beyond protecting your perimeter. You also need to put a metal detector at the entrance, secure the locker room, and provide continual surveillance. And ZT is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, the result will be a continuum of solutions and outcomes tailored to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: Cracking the Compliance Code with Unified STIG Automation and Content</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/white-paper-cracking-the-compliance-code-with-unified-stig-automation-and-content/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unify STIG content and operationalize compliance with this simple solution. Tired of doing days and weeks of reconciliation work due to a lack of synchronization between the approved RMF/STIG policy and controls implemented in the production process? So are we. Streamline the process and crack the compliance code with STIG Automation. Inside this white paper we dive ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: eMASS Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[White Paper: eMASS Automation – The Search for a Solution to Unite and Automate Security Compliance Data eMASS, or the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service, was developed by the DoD, in part, as a repository that unites technical/machine data generated from endpoint scans with the human/non-technical data documented by security/IA personnel. Imagine a 1,000 workstation ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: A Consultant&#8217;s Guide to Lower-Level Controls for CMMC</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No need to paddle against the current when you have A Consultant&#8217;s Guide to Lower-Level Controls for CMMC Certified Third-party Assessor Organizations (C3PAOs), Registered Provider Organizations (RPOs), Certified Assessors (CAs), and Registered Practitioners (RPs) are beginning to mobilize as plans for implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) start to roll out slowly. While the compliance landscape ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: Using STIGs to Accelerate CDM Compliance </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accelerate CDM compliance and reimagine your traditional network security As part of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (Executive Order), Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) Agencies need to establish or update their Memoranda of Agreement with CISA for the CDM (Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation) program ensure that the object level data are available ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White Paper: Cybersecurity Risk vs Compliance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity Risk vs. Compliance: What is the Difference and Why It Matters Cybersecurity for computer networks and systems just keeps getting tougher every day. New attack vectors and threats occur by the hundreds on a daily basis. Protecting systems and data requires massive defensive vigilance and action on the part of CISOs, CTOs, CIOs and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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