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		<title>Datasheet: ConfigOS DashView</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Securing your enterprise against internal and external threats requires several critical steps to establish a system hardening baseline. Systems hardening is a collection of tools, techniques, and best practices to reduce vulnerability in technology applications, systems, infrastructure, firmware, and other areas. The goal of systems hardening is to reduce security risk by eliminating potential attack ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>eBook: CIS Benchmarks Compliance Success Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[eBook: CIS Benchmarks Compliance Success Guide Understanding cybersecurity and compliance often feels mysterious and overwhelming, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be. Consider this eBook your survival guide in the CIS Benchmarks journey. In this guide you&#8217;ll learn:   System-Level Controls   Continuous Compliance (Implementation and Assessment)   Conflict (and Compliance!) Resolution    Creating New Secure ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SteelCloud Named a Top Cloud Security Solutions Provider by Enterprise Security Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Coffey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top 10 Cloud Security Solutions Providers We are excited to be named among the Top 10 Cloud Security Solutions Providers by Enterprise Security Magazine. “We take pride in honoring SteelCloud as one among the 10 companies that are featured in the Cloud Security Solutions Special Edition,” said Russell Thomas, Managing Editor of Enterprise Security Magazine. “To ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Compliance Automation Facilitates the Government’s Move to Windows 11 STIG  ASHBURN, VA., August 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; SteelCloud LLC, a STIG and CIS compliance automation software developer, announced today the availability of scanning and remediation automation support for the Windows 11 STIG just released by DISA, (Defense Information Systems Agency). The new Windows 11 policy ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Making Policy Compliance Work for You &#8211; CIS Benchmarks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How the CIS Benchmarks and the DISA STIGs come together to form the bedrock principle for policy compliance. What is the best way to manage and configure for best security affect to support the mission and operation? In this CyberSecurity TV episode, Tony Sager, Sr VP Center for Internet Security (CIS), and Brian Hajost, SteelCloud ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SteelCloud Software Automates eMASS and Splunk Data Integration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ConfigOS accelerates RMF with automated Bulk Checklist Production on eMASS and Splunk Data Integration. ASHBURN, Va., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; SteelCloud LLC, a leading STIG and CIS compliance automation software developer, announced today the availability of a new release of its ConfigOS software that creates bulk STIG Viewer checklists and integrates human and machine controls into data ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>eMASS Automation and Uniting the Missing Security Compliance Data</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How eMASS Automation Unites the Missing 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.  Traditionally the “uniting” process is accomplished by completing a STIG Viewer Checklist ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Toast the Holidays with Our “Triple-Sec” Gift!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It wouldn&#8217;t be the Holidays without Our “Triple-Sec” Gift!  As 2021 comes to a close, we wanted to offer our readers something special—our top three cybersecurity resources for 2021. Every DoD and contractor library should be stocked with these reports defining and describing your security mission and how to accomplish it effectively and efficiently. With ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop the Drift &#8211; How to Spot and Stop Compliance Drift</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it&#8217;s not the same river and he&#8217;s not the same man.” Heraclitus The same thing is true when it comes to your IT infrastructure. Catching your STIGs from compliance drift means the minute you make one change, you are dealing with a different network and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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