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		<title>Baseline Security: The Forgotten Pillar of Cybersecurity Awareness Month</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity Awareness Month covers passwords, MFA and phishing. See why secure configuration is the forgotten pillar, plus a 9-step checklist.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education (Updated September 2026) The consequences stopped being hypothetical some time ago. In February 2026, a ransomware attack took down the IT systems and electronic health record at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Clinics closed across the state. Roughly 650 surgeries were delayed. Staff worked from paper ...]]></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>The Administrator&#8217;s Guide to System Hardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 23:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Administrator&#8217;s Guide to System Hardening If cybercrime were gross national product, its revenue would constitute the world&#8217;s third largest economy at $10.5 trillion per year, surpassing the wealth of every nation except the US and China. With an attack occurring every 39 seconds somewhere in the world, you are, beyond a shadow of a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Data Sheet: ConfigOS MPO Forge Policy Workbench</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ConfigOS MPO Forge Data Sheet Forge is a graphical policy workbench within the ConfigOS MPO software that enables creation of custom policies and the deployment of policy collections. Learn more about this powerful technology in our new data sheet! Click Here to Download]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Visual Guide to System Hardening and Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[System Hardening &#38; Automation Explained [Infographic] The consensus in both the cybersecurity world and in our government is that automation is the best way to secure your systems and fight cybercriminals. Click here to view infographic. SteelCloud’s ConfigOS automates system hardening to STIG and CIS Benchmarks standards. In fact, SteelCloud is a certified CIS Benchmarks ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Harden Systems Easily and Affordably</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What Automation Does to Your System Hardening Efforts It’s that time again. The time to do more with less. But, when it comes to cybersecurity, it’s also the time to do more than ever…with less. Every 39 seconds, a hacker attacks a system with Internet access. Most of these attacks employ automated scripts that seek ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Securing Your IoT Environment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to secure your IoT environment. &#160; The IoT ecosystem is having a moment. This year it’s projected that over 85% of enterprises will have more smart edge and IoT devices on their networks than laptops, desktops, tablets or smartphones. Global projections for 2025 also indicate there will be over 75 billion connected smart devices. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Look into the Future of Cybersecurity in the Water Industry.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Securing the Future: Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Water Industry The EPA recently issued a report stating that more than 300 drinking water systems have cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could lead to functionality loss, denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, and customer information compromise. These systems serve roughly 110 million Americans. In fact, a recent attack in New ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Establishing a System Hardening Baseline</title>
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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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