4 Tips to Simplify Your Strategy During Cybersecurity Awareness Month
4 Tips to Simplify Your Strategy During Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and it’s a great time to think about ways your organization can simplify your cybersecurity strategy and mature your program using less time, fewer resources, and decreasing expenses. ... Read More
Don’t Put Preparation on Pause: CMMC 2.0 is Coming Quicker Than You Think
Don’t Put Preparation on Pause: CMMC 2.0 is Coming Quicker Than You Think The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) process has been quite the rollercoaster for organizations that work with the federal government. It’s been a back-and-forth of “it’s coming,” to “it’s delayed,” to “why aren’t you doing this yet?” ... Read More
CMMC 2.0 — A Wait and See Game?
Since 2019, the Government Contracting (GovCon) community has believed that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will either fail or companies will not have to worry until at least 2025. Apptega has collaborated with SoundWay Consulting, Inc. (SoundWay) to investigate the rationale behind this opinion and the results are problematic. ... Read More
Get on the Offense for Your Client’s Cybersecurity Defense
Making compliance easy for MSSPs to manage and mature clients’ cybersecurity practices and win new business begins with GRC It wasn’t that long ago that cybersecurity and ransomware were topics generally only discussed within IT teams managing security for large-scale enterprises. Many small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) pushed concerns to the side, ... Read More
Top 4 Security Threats for MSSPs
Doing business has inherent risks and our expanding threat landscape, supply chain issues, and increased cybercrime create turmoil for modern businesses. Unfortunately, many organizations just don’t have the skilled staff, resources, or experience to keep up with our rapidly changing environment ... Read More
NIST 800-172 to Strengthen CUI Protection Controls | Apptega
Understanding if SP 800-172 Applies to Your Organization and What It May Mean As the threat landscape continues to evolve and attackers expose millions upon millions of records through successful breaches, many compliance and regulatory organizations are considering changes to some of their existing frameworks, requirements, and recommendations to help ... Read More
Department of Defense Unveils CMMC 2.0, Opening a Five-Year Implementation Window | Apptega
Organizations encouraged to complete cybersecurity readiness assessments and implement NIST 800-171 best practices in preparation Late last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced some important updates to its existing Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), a set of security standards that help organizations protect controlled classified information (CUI) and ... Read More
Are You Riding the GRC Wave or Missing the Boat?
Read the original article here. Change happens in waves and the trend of GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) is not only here to stay – it is surging. Companies of all sizes are finding themselves having to tackle SOC 2, CMMC, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and dozens of other standards. The ... Read More
A New Way to Navigate Security and Compliance | Apptega
From MSSP to MCCP: How Compliance as a Service Can Help You Win New Business and Better Serve Existing Clients The lines between cybersecurity, privacy, risk management, and compliance are no longer straight and delineated. Long gone are the days where IT teams could tackle all things security-related while privacy ... Read More
CMMC 2.0 – What’s Next? | Apptega
With the DoD's release of CMMC 2.0, companies are wondering what has changed and if they should slow down certification efforts. Join us Tuesday, December 14th as CMMC expert Fred Tschirigi addresses these questions and offers real-world examples and experiences to help you on your CMMC journey ... Read More
