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		<title>CBOM: Automating Zero-Defect Compliance at Scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In today’s complex digital technology landscape there is an ever-evolving threat that requires securing and protecting critical infrastructure, information, and assets.  Several initiatives are under way throughout the Government to support the presidential Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity which includes implementing a zero-trust framework and providing greater visibility into application vulnerabilities through the ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From CISO to SME – Make Your Compliance Data Work for Your Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This webcast will share with you everything you want to know about making your compliance data for Work for your organization. Maintaining risk awareness, performing compliance trend analysis, and discovering and correcting endpoint compliance drift is characteristically a cumbersome, time-consuming manual process. An enterprise that remediates thousands of endpoints a day generates millions of data ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Automating Security Configuration Management: The Time to Hesitate is Over</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security configuration management and resistance to change simplified by automating security configuration management with automation. From the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger to the Cadillac Coupe De Ville, American cars were admired back in the 1970s. They were manufactured as they had always been—cars would come off the manufacturing line and be full of defects ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Seven ways automation seals your CMMC certification with a KISS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMMC certification with a KISS in seven steps KISS—Keep It Simple, Stupid—is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated. In other words, simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMMC 2.0 Opportunities and Challenges</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMMC 2.0 framework offers up a more transparent pathway.  Just when we were all finally wrapping our brains around the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandate for the defense industrial base (DIB), they went and changed it on us—for the better! In the early morning of November 4, 2021, “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 Updates and Way ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Navigating the CMMC Certification Process</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Navigating the CMMC Certification Process In 2020, the DoD rolled out its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. The CMMC certification process requires the defense industrial base (DIB) to attain third-party certification to ensure government contractors practice one of three cybersecurity levels, depending on the kind of data they touch. Although the deadline for CMMC ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tackling the challenges of CMMC compliance in the DIB</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tackling the challenges of CMMC compliance in the DIB Trying to wrap your arms around CMMC compliance in the DIB? When it comes to cybersecurity and CMMC compliance in the DIB (defense industrial base), the government means business. And the more sensitive the data is that you handle, the more secure you need to be.  ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are You Grappling with Privacy Mandates to Comply with PII &#8211; Personally Identifiable Information?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are You Grappling with Privacy Mandates to Comply with PII – Personally Identifiable Information? Hardening systems is first step in protecting you PII Personally Identifiable Information Modern businesses collect data a lot of data. Regardless of your industry, your company relies on PII Personally Identifiable Information) to provide the best consumer experience possible. This reliance ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mind the Gap: How Air Gapping Can Protect IP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reconsider the value air gapping brings to intellectual property data protection. If you have a machine that is not connected to the internet directly or to any other computers that are connected to the internet, are you truly secure and can it be hacked? Many companies now require that a network or system is secure by ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about BIG markets, but how to create a monopoly in an esoteric niche, a small market, and, as a consequence, become a strong defensible business? In Part 1  of our One Million by One Million Blog posts, our guest is Brian Hajost, President and Founder of SteelCloud, a company that develops technology for ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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