Regulatory guidance, assessment prep, and compliance analysis for the Defense Industrial Base and public sector.
Supply Chain Risk ManagementWhat Happened The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Department of Defense s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk in September 2026. This designation, effective since March, bars DOD
FedRAMP ProgramThe FedRAMP Consolidated Rules 2026 retired the provider Plan of Action and Milestones (POA M) as a compliance artifact. In its place are Vulnerability Detection and Response (VDR) and Vulnerability E
Configuration & Endpoint SecurityUnderstanding the Importance of Prioritizing Vulnerabilities You re staring at your vulnerability scanner output on a Monday morning. There are 347 findings. Your patching window is Thursday night. Yo
Cloud Security & ProvidersThe Challenge The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued binding operational directives for federal agencies to adopt cloud security standards by a set deadline. Most agencies
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Cloud Security & ProvidersWhen the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issues a Binding Operational Directive (BOD), agencies are expected to comply. That s the theory. However, the Department of Homeland S
FedRAMP ProgramThe December 7, 2026 deadline is set. Your agency must review provider vulnerability reports, filter them to your use case, compare PAIN ratings against your impact determinations, and update POA Ms a
Cryptography & EncryptionYour organization will migrate to post-quantum cryptography whether you re ready or not. NIST finalized its first three post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024, with quantum-vulnerable algorithms
Cryptography & EncryptionExecutive Order 14412 puts post-quantum cryptography on your compliance calendar with actual deadlines. But most organizations are tripping over the same preventable mistakes, not because the cryptogr
Identity & Access ManagementA CVSS 10.0 vulnerability is under active exploitation. Cisco confirms attackers are already using it. CISA adds it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Your ISE patch is ready. Yet, a prog
Identity & Access ManagementUnderstanding the Impact The recent Cisco ISE authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76460, CVSS 10.0) has raised alarms across security teams. Immediate questions were about usage, patching, and potential d
Cryptography & EncryptionExecutive Order 14412 isn t a research initiative. It s a compliance mandate with timelines, forcing risk and compliance officers to answer a question most haven t faced: how do you protect data that
Identity & Access ManagementWhat Happened Your security team discovered 200 AWS IAM roles across three accounts, many with permissions far beyond what s necessary. IAM Access Analyzer flagged roles with unused service permission
Continuous MonitoringYou re facing a choice that will define how you defend your compliance posture to auditors, customers, and leadership: do you prove your controls work once a year, or do you prove it continuously? Thi
Cryptography & EncryptionResearchers at KU Leuven, ETH Zurich, Durham University, and Google have shown that a device costing under $200 can bypass memory encryption in Intel TDX , Scalable SGX, and AMD SEV-SNP environments.
CMMC & DIB AssessmentThe Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program presents a challenge for small defense contractors. You need the certification to compete for Department of Defense (DoD) contracts, but a
Laws & Executive OrdersThe Office of Management and Budget has set a firm deadline for compliance officers. High-value assets for key establishment must transition to post-quantum cryptography by 2030, with digital signatur
Cloud Security & ProvidersGeorgia s October 1 mandate requiring GovRAMP validation for new state cloud procurements has exposed how little most vendors actually understand about state-level authorization frameworks. You ve lik
CMMC & DIB AssessmentThese questions started hitting my inbox the morning after John Tenaglia s September 3 memo landed. Program managers, compliance leads, and GC A teams all asking variations of the same thing: what doe
CMMC & DIB AssessmentThe Pentagon s CMMC Phase 2 suspension didn t pause your compliance obligations. It exposed them. While the CMMC Reform Task Force sorts through over 1,100 industry responses and more than 10,000 page
Cryptography & EncryptionScope This guide outlines post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementation requirements for federal agencies and defense contractors using systems subject to NIST SP 800-53 , NIST SP 800-171 , FedRAMP a
