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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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		<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An SI&#8217;s best friend can be found in Webster&#8217;s dictionary under the word &#8220;automation.&#8221; Amidst the mounting frequency of cyberattacks and hacking, the Federal government is relentlessly pursuing approaches that harden their systems and thwart attacks. In efforts to ensure our supply chains and cybersecurity, the government tactics require system integrators to meet security standards ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accelerating your RMF accreditation means getting more agile with eMASS automation. If you have ever tried loading STIG Viewer Checklist data into eMASS, you know one thing— it is a burdensome process! Yet the comprehensive view of your manual and machine configuration management and cybersecurity checklist are valuable, especially for accelerating your RMF accreditation. eMASS, ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inflation is eroding budgets and employee compensation in the cyberworkforce. When it comes to the culprits of inflation, there are many places to point blame. Pandemic-induced supply chain shortages, followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and disrupted supplies of commodities from the region, certainly top the list.    Gartner asked C-suite executives what they were focusing on in ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Entrepreneur’s Day tribute to Brian Hajost, Founder and COO of SteelCloud</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SteelCloud is on a roll in 2022. Being named a Top Cloud Security Solutions Provider by Enterprise Security magazine is just part of it. In addition, our Founder and COO, Brian Hajost, has also been named one of the Most Influential People in Cybersecurity by CIO Views magazine. So, there’s no better person to honor ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CIO Views Magazine Names SteelCloud&#8217;s COO, Brian Hajost, among the Most Influential People in Cyber Security</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Coffey]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reliability and muscle memory make the man. Brian Hajost, Chief Operations Officer of SteelCloud, has been named one of Most Influential People in Cyber Security for 2022 by CIO Views magazine. Reliability. It’s a quality that defines both Brian Hajost, the man, and Brian Hajost, the COO. People know you’ll do what you say you’re ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Era Magazine Names SteelCloud&#8217;s CEO, Tony Caputo, among the Top 10 Inspiring Leaders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Integrity Forms the Baseline for Success Tony Caputo, Chief Executive Officer of SteelCloud, has been named one of the Top 10 Inspiring Leaders by Industry Era magazine.  Tony&#8217;s background and expertise enables him to implement new processes that streamline work, train and lead salespeople, and build on a culture of accountability and teamwork within the ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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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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