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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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					<description><![CDATA[CMMC For Dummies simplifies the program’s impact for the leadership of any DoD contractor, both big and small Ashburn, Virginia – July 16, 2025 &#8211; SteelCloud LLC, a leading STIG and CIS compliance automation software developer, announced today the release of the updated 3rd edition of “CMMC For Dummies,” an eBook to help Defense Industrial ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Establishing a System Hardening Baseline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Increase your preparedness with continuous security monitoring and remediation. There are five reasons people are moving to the Cloud. SteelCloud focuses on “Preparedness”, helping customers move securely to the Cloud, implementing continuous STIG and CIS security monitoring, and increasing baseline security and consistency while significantly reducing time and effort. Our patented ConfigOS automation software makes ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Best practices for securing Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems In this free eBook you will learn how to deploy a holistic approach to STIG and CIS alignment where a coordinated effort managing OT and IT makes sense. ConfigOS automation identifies vulnerabilities, mitigates control issues, streamlines compliance, improves ATO accuracy and speed, and maintains a secure baseline ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>eBook: How to Beat the Cyberworkforce Shortage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rethinking employment strategies to beat the Cyberworkforce shortage. Eliminate manhour shortages in your compliance effort. Whether you’re trying to achieve STIG, CIS, CMMC or eMASS alignment or compliance, everyone encounters the same roadblocks—shortages of time, money and, especially, manhours. This eBook addresses the strategies to overcome these challenges, despite a workforce shortage and the rising cost ...]]></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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		<title>Make checklist work more agile with eMASS automation</title>
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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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		<title>Inflation: The Unseen Threat to the Cyberworkforce.</title>
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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>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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