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		<title>Datasheet: ConfigOS DashView</title>
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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>Establishing a System Hardening Baseline</title>
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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>What Nobody Has Ever Told You About Compliance Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the Cyberworkforce shortage being top of mind for so many right now, we sat down with our own Brian Hajost, Founder and COO, to ask him about his thoughts on this concern and here&#8217;s what resulted. &#160; The hidden staffing benefits of compliance automation. The path to learning a professional craft has always been ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Automation Makes the Workforce Fonder</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Making the workforce place fun again with eMASS automation to accelerate RMF accreditation. There are many reasons to pursue a career in cybersecurity. Across the board, cybersecurity roles offer abundant employment possibilities, competitive pay, growth opportunities, job security, exciting day-to-day tasks, and the chance to make a difference. But what if your day-to-day is neither ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Small Businesses Can Stay Competitive Amidst Cyberthreats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The unique challenges small businesses face in a world of cyberthreats.  When it comes to headline-making cybersecurity incidents, most have one thing in common—large companies usually get all the press. However, small businesses are just as vulnerable, with 43% of all data breaches targeting small businesses. And of those businesses, 60% will close their doors ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Inflation Impacts the Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cyberworkforce shortage creates the perfect storm for our national security. Everyone is talking about inflation these days. It impacts prices. It affects consumer spending. And it impacts jobs. According to C4isnet.com, “The inflation expectations in 2022 are the highest in decades, which will directly impact the cost to attract and retain a cyber workforce. Even ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Breaking Down CUI and its Impact on the DIB</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CUI isn&#8217;t being changed with CMMC 2.0, but DoD&#8217;s enforcement of NIST 800-171 requirements is changing. DoD introduced a lower assurance requirement for contracts deemed not to involve information critical to national security. So, If you are a consultant, system integrator, or member of the defense industrial base, you have probably been thinking a lot ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Solving the Cyberworkforce Job Vacancies with Automation and IA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s never been a better time to add automation to your cyberworkforce job vacancies shortage. Cyberseek recently reported that the demand for cybersecurity professionals had surged more than 40% over the past year, with some 714,000 cybersecurity vacancies between April 2021 and April 2022. The key word here is “recently.” Because every time we talk ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mission-Critical Infrastructure Combined with DevSecOps</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Securing a mission-critical infrastructure means improving DevSecOps process to focus on vulnerabilities. As Gartner recently observed, “Concerns are growing for the security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in mission-critical infrastructure, whether “brownfield” CPS from OT/IT convergence or “greenfield” CPS from digital efforts.” With cyberattacks increasing 3,900% between 2013 and 2020, organizations need all the help they ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Three Ways to Beat the Cyber Workforce Shortage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three ways to beat the cyber workforce shortage can be achieved with improving your data based decisions With increasing attacks on everything from private businesses to government infrastructure, the importance of cybersecurity cannot be understated. But amid workforce shortages and the ever-increasing cleverness of bad actors, how do you stay ahead of the threat? Government ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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