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		<title>Customization is the Key to Continuous Compliance</title>
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		<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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		<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>5 Signs Your Compliance Program Is Operationally Fragmented</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[5 Signs Your Compliance Program Is Operationally Fragmented Compliance programs don’t just suddenly fail. They quietly erode over time. Baselines slowly drift out of alignment. Tools don’t recognize agreed upon policies and procedures. Audit cycles become cumbersome. And multiple versions of the truth begin to define your program. Many consider this chaos the nature of ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strengthen Cyber Readiness with STIGs and CIS Benchmarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Strengthening Your Cyber Readiness CIS Benchmarks &#38; STIGs As the second half of the 2020s gets into full swing, expert cybersecurity predictions are rolling in. Nearly everyone agrees attack surfaces will increase as AI—either your own or your attacker’s—will be used against you. Cross-platform attacks and semi-autonomous malware will be on the rise. Compliance expectations ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Every Industry Needs a STIG-Level Security Mindset</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Every Industry Needs a STIG-Level Security Mindset As in every previous year, cyberattacks were up again in 2025, intensified by AI-powered attacks and increasingly sophisticated ransomware tactics. Key trends included double extortion, supply chain attacks, distributed denial of service, phishing and the exploitation of IoT vulnerabilities. In an unsurprising turn of events, the US ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top 6 Lessons Learned from Our Clients in 2025 These 6 Things Drove Cybersecurity Implementations in 2025 Whether mandated or elective, building stronger security was on the agenda in 2025. In federal, state and local government agencies, the DIB, higher education and the federal civilian supply chain, implementing standardized, world-class frameworks was a major focus ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Proven Frameworks and Automation Matter for Higher Ed Security SteelCloud has just returned from exhibiting at the EDUCAUSE conference in Nashville. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit organization supporting higher education technology leaders and professionals in the advancement of teaching, learning and decision making. Topics included everything from AI and chatbots to payment technologies and cybersecurity. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Revolutionize the monitoring of your infrastructure hardening compliance. Dramatically reduce the time spent monitoring, detecting, and maintaining the enterprise&#8217;s DISA STIG/CIS Benchmark infrastructure hardening compliance. ConfigOS DashView is revolutionizing the way organizations monitor and maintain their infrastructure hardening compliance.  Maintaining risk awareness; performing compliance trend analysis; discovering and correcting hardening drift is usually a cumbersome, ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ConfigOS MPO Training and Support Data Sheet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ConfigOS MPO Training and Support Data Sheet Empower Your Team. Simplify Compliance. Secure Every System.SteelCloud equips your organization with the training, certification, and expert support needed to confidently master ConfigOS. Our proven approach helps you: ✅ Build automation skills that stick✅ Accelerate compliance and remediation workflows✅ Eliminate manual effort and reduce risk✅ Maintain continuous security ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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