Compliance

STIG vs. CIS part 1: The Anatomy of Baselines and Compliance

This blog is part 1 of our multi-post blog series on STIG vs. CIS. In this series, we will give...

Compliance or Engineering: Cybersecurity’s Chicken & the Egg

Compliance-First or Engineering-First Approach? What came first, the chicken or the egg?  This common idiom befuddles many issues amongst philosophical...

Security Baseline and Compliance Automation Webinar

How to Overcome Compliance Barriers with Security Automation Overview: We’ll be honest with you, compliance is hard. Between shifting compliance...

How the CMMC Shows a Greater Focus on Third-Party Risk Management

CMMC & Third-Party Risk Management  Comply or Say Goodbye  If you’re not familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), you’re not alone—but for those...

A Day in the life at MPG: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager

What it’s like to Work as a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager This month we’re interviewing Anita Walker, a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Manager at MindPoint Group (MPG) and...

3 Ways to Prepare for CMMC

3 Ways to Prepare for CMMC The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a recent mandate from the Department of Defense (DoD) for all vendors to...

Getting started with DFARS and FISMA compliance

There’s an easier way to accelerate compliance If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already aware of how difficult it...

It’s past time we modernized security hardening procedures

Security baseline automation of STIG and CIS controls with Ansible is improving resource management and compliance With an ever-growing workload...

Even with automation, security baselines like STIG or CIS remain a challenge to manage. But there is hope.

Ever ask a sysadmin what they find most tedious about their job? If they’re being honest, keeping up with security...

A+: AMI’s, Automation & AWS

A few weeks ago, I attended AWS re:Invent 2016 with nine of my colleagues. If you have never been, re:Invent is...

The AWS Shared Security Model – Part II: A Step Towards FedRAMP Compliance

If you have a cloud service offering that you are trying to market to the Federal Government, chances are you’ve...

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