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					<description><![CDATA[Centralizing and Automating CIS Benchmarks Hardening Across 20+ Community Colleges How VCCS improved CIS Benchmarks alignment from approximately 40% to more than 80% without adding staff See how the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) used ConfigOS MPO to centralize and automate CIS Benchmarks hardening across more than 900 endpoints and 20+ community colleges. By replacing ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks for higher education: how universities standardize hardening across campuses, support GLBA and PCI DSS, and stop configuration drift.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education Six Steps to Build More Sustainable Cybersecurity in Higher Education Colleges and universities are balancing growing workloads, increasing technology complexity, staffing challenges, and continued budget pressure. EDUCAUSE has described these conditions as contributing to a “cycle of reactivity,” in which immediate needs consume the time and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DATA SHEET: 7 Reasons to Automate CIS Benchmarks in Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[7 Reasons to Automate CIS Benchmarks in Higher Education Higher education institutions must secure complex, distributed environments without adding more manual work to already stretched IT teams. This data sheet explores seven ways CIS Benchmarks automation can help institutions accelerate implementation, reduce repetitive tasks, maintain consistent policies, correct configuration drift, and strengthen cybersecurity across campus ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed (Updated September 2026) Imagine walking through the longest, darkest, most dangerous alleyway in town every night—with wads of cash sticking out of your pockets. You’ll make it through safely many times. Until you don’t. That is the kind of risk you take with hackers each day ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to Spend Smarter on CIS Benchmarks Compliance Automation CIS Benchmarks set a high bar for security, and for teams tackling them the first time, that bar can look daunting. The framework is comprehensive, covering thousands of system configurations across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments. For organizations without dedicated expertise, simply knowing where to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Proven Frameworks and Automation Matter for Higher Ed Security SteelCloud has just returned from exhibiting at the EDUCAUSE conference in Nashville. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit organization supporting higher education technology leaders and professionals in the advancement of teaching, learning and decision making. Topics included everything from AI and chatbots to payment technologies and cybersecurity. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Recap of 2024’s Best Cybersecurity Resources Each year, SteelCloud puts pen to paper with our thoughts about cybersecurity, IT modernization, automation and the kinds of challenges our clients face in securing everything from data to war systems. In case you missed anything, check out the links below for the best and most popular content ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>6 Ways CIS Benchmarks Automation Delivers Immediate ROI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[6 Ways CIS Benchmarks Automation Delivers Immediate ROI By now, most state and local government and education (SLED) institutions are either considering or implementing CIS Benchmarks cybersecurity. It’s an objectively good choice. In fact, in more and more instances, CIS Benchmarks or the NIST 800-53 standards they are based on are mandated for the sector. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gain Maximum Cybersecurity Protection from Minimal Budget Increases In 2018, at least a third of Atlanta government services were attacked, including police dashboard cams, utility payments and Wi-Fi at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest airport in the world. When all was said and done, that breach cost the city $9.5M to recover from. Experts say ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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