Regulatory guidance, assessment prep, and compliance analysis for the Defense Industrial Base and public sector.
CMMC & DIB AssessmentWhat Happened On July 13, 2026, the Department of War paused CMMC Phase 2 for a 60-day review to ease compliance burdens on small and non-traditional defense contractors. Originally, Phase 2 was set t
Identity & Access ManagementYou ve got five Global Administrators in your Entra ID Directory. Is that five too many, or five too few? If you can t answer that question in the next 30 seconds, you re carrying unnecessary risk. Ad
Configuration & Endpoint SecuritySupply chain risk managers often treat CISA s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog like optional reading. That s a problem. When CISA adds new vulnerabilities to the KEV Catalog and reinforces them
CMMC & DIB AssessmentThe Decision You re Facing You re looking at a contract modification, a subcontractor questionnaire, or an email thread with your contracting officer. You need to decide if Controlled Unclassified Inf
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Continuous MonitoringThe conventional wisdom: Your incident is over when services come back online. You ve restored from backup, users can log in again, and the CEO can tell the board that operations have resumed. Recover
Continuous MonitoringYou ve restored systems, users are back online, and the board wants to move on. But here s the problem: operational recovery and breach recovery aren t the same thing. Confusing them is how organizati
Laws & Executive OrdersThe Challenge When President Biden signed the Cybersecurity Executive Order , federal agencies faced an immediate challenge: they had 60 days to develop implementation plans for Zero Trust Architectur
Laws & Executive OrdersYour organization just experienced a security incident. You ve patched the vulnerability, rotated credentials, and filed the required reports. But if your post-incident review focuses only on technica
Continuous MonitoringIf you re drafting your agency s logging plan for the November 18 deadline, you re facing two main challenges: OMB s demand for mature enterprise logging capabilities and your budget office s concerns
FedRAMP ProgramQuestions from the Field The FedRAMP Authorization Act is now part of the defense authorization bill, prompting compliance teams to question its impact on existing authorizations, future plans, and ag
FedRAMP ProgramThe Decision at Hand With FedRAMP Rev. 5 baselines now in play, cloud service providers must decide: invest in OSCAL-native tools or stick with the traditional Word-and-Excel approach that got you aut
FedRAMP ProgramIf you re a cloud service provider with federal contracts, you re facing a critical decision that affects your engineering plans, contract timelines, and authorization strategy. FedRAMP Rev 5 is the c
Cloud Security & ProvidersScope This guide examines the operational and security implications of aligning cloud management with cyber defense organizations, using the Army s reassignment of its Enterprise Cloud Management Acti
CMMC & DIB AssessmentThe Department of Defense s suspension of CMMC Phase 2 has led to widespread confusion across the defense industrial base. Some program managers mistakenly believe compliance is optional now or we can
Authorization & AccreditationThe Real Challenge: Implementing AI Safeguards Without Precedent This isn t about dissecting a breach or compliance failure. It s about addressing a potentially more dangerous issue: the absence of a
FedRAMP ProgramWhen FedRAMP withdrew its proposed requirement for cloud service providers to report assessment costs, it didn t just kill RFC-0019. It clarified where the regulatory line stops and where your commerc
Supply Chain Risk ManagementThe Challenge The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) faces a common issue in defense programs: supply chain risks often remain hidden until they disrupt schedules. Critical threats and single-point-
Continuous MonitoringYou ve accepted that FedRAMP 20x is coming, your 3PAO is already asking about OSCAL submissions, and you re tired of manually reconciling Word documents every time a control changes. What you need is
Governance RolesThe Conventional Wisdom Federal agencies often hear about the need for harmonized cybersecurity regulations. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the Streamlining F
FedRAMP ProgramFedRAMP s new mandatory Security Inbox requirements pose a critical question for cloud service providers: should you manage emergency response monitoring internally, or assign it to a third party? The
