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		<title>Unified Automation:  The Key to Baseline Integrity and Hardening that Holds</title>
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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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					<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[5 Things Federal Contractors Must Know About CMMC The DoD’s long-anticipated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rule entered Phase 1 of its implementation on November 10, 2025. This phase only impacts Level 1 and Level 2 contractors, requiring alignment with CMMC rules and self-assessments of your program. New Phases will be introduced in November 2026, ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How CMMC Automation Delivers a Competitive Advantage to the DIB</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How CMMC Automation Delivers a Competitive Advantage to the DIB &#160; Automate CMMC Compliance and Gain a Competitive Advantage with the DoD &#160; On November 10, 2025, the DoD officially instituted its new CMMC rule requiring Level 1 and Level 2 prime and subcontractors to perform self-assessments of their cybersecurity practices to ensure they are ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Reasons to Automate Your CMMC 2+ Compliance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[7 Reasons to Automate Your CMMC 2+ Compliance Curious about the transformative power of compliance automation? Here are seven compelling benefits that streamline your journey towards meeting CMMC 2+ compliance and beyond. Let&#8217;s dive into the advantages that could reshape your approach to cybersecurity. Download the free data sheet now! ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What is CMMC Phase 1?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is CMMC Phase 1? The DoD has made it official—the CMMC requirement for those in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) went into effect on November 10, 2025. What that means is that CMMC certification via self-assessments will be required for Level 1 and Level 2 contractors in order to respond to DoD contracts moving forward. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Automation Enables Cybersecurity Compliance Amid Budget and Staff Uncertainty In times of uncertainty, automation solutions can help organizations reduce attack surfaces, improve processes, and do more with less to maximize efficiency. Shrinking budgets, shrinking staff, and a need to get capabilities into the hands of the warfighter faster—everything points to automation. With hiring freezes and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Automation Reaches a Tipping Point with Hegseth Memo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DoD Accelerates Software Acquisition: Automation Takes Center Stage Last Friday, Secretary Pete Hegseth made a move in the right direction to secure a more efficient and effective path for getting weapons and capabilities to the warfighter sooner. He issued a memo to senior leaders directing the DoD to embrace a rapid software acquisition pathway (SWP) ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Faces of SteelCloud: Meet Nicolas Barham – Client Executive</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fretting Over Cybersecurity, Not the Blues: The Nicolas Barham Story   By day, Nicolas Barham is a SteelCloud Client Executive, serving mainly System Integrators and Air Force clients. By night he’s a soccer playing blues guitarist with a penchant for philosophy. If any of that sounds incompatible, it’s only because you haven’t met Nicolas Barham ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[15 Ways to Benefit from CMMC Certification. With Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) entering RFPs en masse in 2025, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is scrambling to become compliant. CMMC tells the DoD you’re their partner in protecting the warfighter and safeguarding sensitive information like FCI and CUI. It assures them you’re ready to thwart ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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