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How to Comply With Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity

June 10, 2021
Max Totsky
Cybersecurity, Executive Order, Government Contracting

On May 12, President Joe Biden issued his 44th executive order of the year– and his first targeting cybersecurity. The executive order is primarily concerned with protecting federal networks from cybersecurity threats, with many of its requirements aimed at federal contractors. Additionally, the order functions as a call for a more generally secure cyberspace, and urges…

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2020 News in Review

January 4, 2021
Tim Crino
Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Banks, Biometric, Brazil, Breach prevention, Breach response, Business Continuity, C-Suite, Canada, CCPA, CISO, CMMC, CNIL, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, COVID-19, Cyber Fraud, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Rights Management (DRM), data trusts, differential privacy, DPO, Dubai, European Union, Federal Reserve, Federated Learning, Financial Services, GDPR, GLBA, Governance, Government Contracting, Hiring, Hybrid, International Agreements, Investigations, Japan, Machine Learning, New York State, NIST, Penalties and Enforcement, Phishing, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Project Management, Resilience, State Laws, Third Party Compliance, United Kingdom, US Regulatory, Work from Home

Week Ending December 28 ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…

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What We Can Learn From the SolarWinds Breach

December 22, 2020
Max Totsky
Breach prevention, Breach response, Business Continuity, Consumer Privacy, Cyber Fraud, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Government Contracting, Privacy, Third Party Compliance
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SolarWinds, a network management software company, found itself the direct victim of an insidious malware breach last week that had been in the works for months. The hack involved the installation of malware onto an updated version of their software,…

Binary New Cybersecurity Compliance Requirements for Government Contractors

July 15, 2020
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CMMC, Cybersecurity, Government Contracting
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SPECIAL FROM AFFILIATE MEMBER To address increasing cybersecurity risk to government contractors that are defense suppliers (collectively the Defense Industrial Base, or DIB), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is aggressively implementing an enhanced cybersecurity compliance regime to protect sensitive…

Explaining the DoD’s New Cybersecurity Certification

March 3, 2020
Max Totsky
Compliance, Cybersecurity, Government Contracting, Third Party Compliance, Training and Education
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By 2026, any contractor that works with the Department of Defense must meet the standards set by version 1.0 of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The Pentagon released the new standards on Jan 31, which will require third-party certification…