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		<title>15 Ways to Benefit from CMMC Certification.</title>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FedRAMP&#8217;s NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 is one of the most foundational documents in modern cybersecurity.  The Justice Department recently announced a $9 million settlement in a case against a federal contractor accused of misrepresenting their compliance with cybersecurity requirements under the False Claims Act. Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, says that most contractors “follow ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tailor your approach and safeguard sensitive informative using NIST SP 800-172.  If you are a consultant, system integrator, or member of the defense industrial base, you have probably been thinking a lot about CMMC certification,  CUI, and NIST SP 800–172 lately. While many in the DIB have been handling CUI and may already be a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Seven ways automation seals your CMMC certification with a KISS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMMC certification with a KISS in seven steps KISS—Keep It Simple, Stupid—is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated. In other words, simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMMC 2.0 Opportunities and Challenges</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMMC 2.0 framework offers up a more transparent pathway.  Just when we were all finally wrapping our brains around the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandate for the defense industrial base (DIB), they went and changed it on us—for the better! In the early morning of November 4, 2021, “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 Updates and Way ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Navigating the CMMC Certification Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Navigating the CMMC Certification Process In 2020, the DoD rolled out its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. The CMMC certification process requires the defense industrial base (DIB) to attain third-party certification to ensure government contractors practice one of three cybersecurity levels, depending on the kind of data they touch. Although the deadline for CMMC ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becky Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tackling the challenges of CMMC compliance in the DIB Trying to wrap your arms around CMMC compliance in the DIB? When it comes to cybersecurity and CMMC compliance in the DIB (defense industrial base), the government means business. And the more sensitive the data is that you handle, the more secure you need to be.  ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Are You Grappling with Privacy Mandates to Comply with PII – Personally Identifiable Information? Hardening systems is first step in protecting you PII Personally Identifiable Information Modern businesses collect data a lot of data. Regardless of your industry, your company relies on PII Personally Identifiable Information) to provide the best consumer experience possible. This reliance ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Reconsider the value air gapping brings to intellectual property data protection. If you have a machine that is not connected to the internet directly or to any other computers that are connected to the internet, are you truly secure and can it be hacked? Many companies now require that a network or system is secure by ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about BIG markets, but how to create a monopoly in an esoteric niche, a small market, and, as a consequence, become a strong defensible business? In Part 1  of our One Million by One Million Blog posts, our guest is Brian Hajost, President and Founder of SteelCloud, a company that develops technology for ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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