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		<title>Cybersecurity Compliance Has to Outlast the People and Systems Behind It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity Compliance Has to Outlast the People and Systems Behind It SteelCloud advisor Mike Korgan draws on decades of experience across defense, intelligence and technology to examine how organizations can sustain compliance as environments, priorities and responsibilities change. Cybersecurity compliance is rarely an organization’s primary mission. A defense agency exists to support national security. A ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Compliance Programs Drift (And 5 Signs Yours Might Be)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Compliance Programs Drift (And 5 Signs Yours Might Be) Over time, even well-run compliance programs can begin working against the organizations they&#8217;re meant to protect. Often, the culprit is baseline drift. Whether caused by undocumented changes, conflicting policy, or an audit-centric compliance program, baseline drift quietly undermines every downstream compliance metric. And it’s likely ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CHECKLIST: 5 Signs Your Compliance Program is Working Against You</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[5 Signs Your Compliance Program is Working Against You Is your compliance program making security harder than it should be? This free checklist helps you identify five warning signs that operational friction is undermining your compliance efforts. Use it to assess your current approach, uncover hidden risks, and determine whether your program is built for ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>STIG Remediation: A Practical Guide to Achieving and Maintaining DISA Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[STIG Remediation: A Practical Guide to Achieving and Maintaining DISA Compliance For those in the DoD or other sensitive government agencies, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) are the foundation of a secure system configuration. STIG compliance can also be the bane of your existence. This DISA framework is extremely successful at reducing vulnerabilities across operating ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CIS Benchmarks Explained: A Practical Guide to Implementation and Continuous Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks explained: levels, covered platforms, a 7-step implementation plan, and how automation keeps you continuously compliant.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Checklist: Baseline Integrity Check</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baseline Integrity Check A quick self-assessment to determine whether your security baseline is aligned with operational reality. Use this checklist to assess whether your baseline is still serving as a reliable foundation for security, compliance, and continuous monitoring. Download the Checklist now!]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unified Automation:  The Key to Baseline Integrity and Hardening that Holds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>A Mission to Defeat the Bad Guys Drives This Career Navy Veteran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Mission to Defeat the Bad Guys Drives This Career Navy Veteran When you operate in a sensitive, mission-critical environment, your cybersecurity can’t be treated like a checklist or point-in-time exercise. It has to be operational. Resilient. Continuous. And aligned to the realities of the mission. Nobody understands that better than Ar-Raheem Ellis. As Senior ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What to Look for in a STIG Automation Solution Before You Buy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What to Look for in a STIG Automation Solution Before You Buy You Can’t Afford to Choose the Wrong Solution Not all automation is created equal, especially when it comes to cybersecurity compliance. Before you purchase a STIG automation solution, make sure it actually delivers on coverage, speed, scale, and simplicity. This checklist will help. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Transcending the Fallout of a Failed CORA with Compliance Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Transcending the Fallout of a Failed CORA with Compliance Automation When the DoE entrusts you with designing, producing and assembling electrical, mechanical and engineered materials for the nuclear weapons stockpile, it’s critical to adhere to both DoE and DoD cybersecurity standards. So when a lab that contracts to the DoE fails to pass a CORA ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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