Recently, the Department of Defense shook up the entire defense industrial base with the release of a memo titled “Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Moderate Equivalency for Cloud Service Provider’s Cloud Service Offerings.” The memo, aimed at FedRAMP contractors and the CSPs they work with, clarifies the concept of equivalency and what it means to be equivalent to the FedRAMP/CMMC Moderate control standard.

If you need to reach PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, GitGuardian has solutions that can help.

Trust and transparency are key to winning customers today. Customers and prospects of all sizes need to know how you’ll protect their data before they can do business with you — which often leads to lengthy questionnaires, long security reviews, and stretched sales cycles as they work to understand your security posture.

Xalient is proud to announce that it has successfully maintained its ISO 20000:2018 certification for Service Management in a recent audit, marking another milestone in its journey of operational excellence. This achievement, led by Craig Ingham, Xalient’s Group Information Security & Compliance Director, demonstrates Xalient’s dedication to providing high-quality IT services while successfully managing end-to-end service delivery.

In the current era of digital technology, email has become an essential means of communication in the healthcare sector. It helps simplify processes, fosters teamwork, and enhances the quality of patient care. However, it is important that the confidential patient data is kept secure, and all communications are done as per the HIPAA compliance email procedures.

You could have the strongest firewalls, encryption, anti-malware, vulnerability scanners, and risk management tools in the world and still leave one critical gap in your cybersecurity infrastructure — insider threats. And most of those threats come from poor identity management. But what, exactly, is good identity management? How do you pick the right identity provider for your organization?

Working as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has never been easy or glamorous. But with the recent adoption of new rules by the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure, life as a CISO has just gotten harder. Adding to the longstanding organizational risk CISO’s have always managed, now they have to contend with personal risk as well.

What is the government if not an organization dedicated to the creation of paperwork? All of that paperwork means something, though, and it can range from trivial to vitally important. One of the more important forms, if it’s required for your business or institution to fill out, is the DD2345 form. What is it, what is it used for, do you need one, and how does it interact with CMMC?

In today’s fast-moving tech world, every business—big or small—needs an IT setup that’s not just robust but also smart enough to keep up with rapid changes and challenges. That’s where managed IT services come in. They do more than just prop up your tech; they turbocharge your business goals. Ever wonder how managed IT services slide into your overall business strategy? It’s not all about fixing tech breakdowns.