Unlocking the Mysteries of the Fed’s New CMMC Requirement

There’s a lot of uncertainty around the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). In this episode of Security on Cloud, Tony Bai, Director of Federal Practice Lead at A-LIGN, joined us to explain the CMMC framework, its importance, and why it’… Continue reading Unlocking the Mysteries of the Fed’s New CMMC Requirement

If You Don’t Hire Robots to Attack Your Networks, You’re Not Doing Security Right

Complying with DoD’s new cybersecurity regulations requires hard data, the kind that pretty much requires automation to compile.
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TalaTek Achieves CMMC AB Registered Practitioner Organization Designation

Company Continues to Expand Expertise in CMMC Compliance   TYSON’S CORNER, Va., December 14, 2020 – TalaTek, an integrated risk management firm, today announced that it has been recognized by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Accred… Continue reading TalaTek Achieves CMMC AB Registered Practitioner Organization Designation

Government learns that authenticators are key part of modernization

Now that federal agencies have shifted to mass telework and sorted through many of the related hardware and software needs, they’re able to take a closer look all the pieces necessary to implement zero-trust security architecture, a cybersecurity expert says. In particular, agencies have greatly embraced the use of different kinds of authenticators to help identify users and control their network access, said Brian Rosensteel, Cybersecurity Architect at Duo Security, during an SNG Live virtual discussion panel hosted by Scoop News Group on Oct. 20. Federal IT leaders are seeing that for telework, old forms of proving identity don’t translate, and they’re looking for other solutions. “That’s where we’ve seen zero trust really starting to take place,” he said. The zero-trust model assumes that the network is penetrable, so it forces users to verify themselves for each set of data or applications they want to access once they’re on the […]

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Why You Should Care

The U.S. Department of Defense released the first version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) back on January 31, 2020. Since that time, there has been a flurry of different industry experts working towards helping clients understa… Continue reading Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Why You Should Care