800-171 is the government’s chosen cybersecurity standard for protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) and is the standard is required by a number of government departments and by private industry as a matter of contract for protecting sensitive unclassified information.
Learn more about this new version of the standard here.
For those of you who are DoD contractors (and even if you are not), here is one thing that you can do that will improve your security program and, if you are a DoD contractor, will add 20 or more points to your NIST SP 800-171 SPRS Score. Audio Video
Okay, that is a bit of alphabet soup. CUI stands for Controlled Unclassified Information. While technically, it only refers to government agencies and government contractors, think of it as information you might prefer that the Russians, Chinese and your competitors don’t have. GPT stands for generative pretrained transformers like ChatGPT, Bard and many others. It…
In the absence of any meaningful federal privacy law that covers the general population, states are implementing their own privacy laws and they are covering residents of their states without regard to where the data collecting business is. Each state is different, which means more work for businesses as they try to figure out what…
The FBI says that 19,000 people reported losing over $700 million to romance scams last year. Learn more about these scams by watching or listening. Links mentioned in the video are: FBI National Cybersecurity Alliance Pig Butchering Scams
For as long as there have been computers, there have been hackers. It is a cat and mouse game. Multi-factor authentication definitely ups the stakes, but there are some things that you should know that might affect your choice of MFA solutions. Audio Video
As the Defense Department moves to more tightly control how Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is handled, contractors are going to need to deal with how documents that contain CUI such as drawings or deliverables are printed. Listen to this short explanation of what is going to be required. If you have questions, please contact us….
