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		<title>Cybersecurity Compliance Has to Outlast the People and Systems Behind It</title>
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		<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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		<title>Why Compliance Programs Drift (And 5 Signs Yours Might Be)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Compliance Programs Drift (And 5 Signs Yours Might Be) Over time, even well-run compliance programs can begin working against the organizations they&#8217;re meant to protect. Often, the culprit is baseline drift. Whether caused by undocumented changes, conflicting policy, or an audit-centric compliance program, baseline drift quietly undermines every downstream compliance metric. And it’s likely ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CHECKLIST: 5 Signs Your Compliance Program is Working Against You</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<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>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>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>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>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>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>White Paper: Synchronize Cyber Compliance &#038; IT Organizations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 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>Customization is the Key to Continuous Compliance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Customization is the Key to Continuous Compliance ConfigOS MPO Enables Customization for Continuous Compliance  Cybersecurity frameworks such as DISA STIGs and CIS Benchmarks provide standardized security baselines designed to protect enterprise systems. However, real-world environments rarely match baseline configurations exactly. Organizations often need to tailor security policies to support unique applications, operational exceptions and diverse infrastructure. You ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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