As someone who’s spent years observing cybersecurity incidents unfold in local governments, we have seen firsthand how unprepared many small municipalities are for today’s digital threats. It’s no longer surprising when a city’s entire IT infrastructure goes down after a ransomware attack or when sensitive resident data is dumped online. What’s alarming is how preventable […]
Author Archives: MX2_Admin
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MX2 Technology has achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 certification. MX2 passed the audit with a perfect 110 score, making it one of the first Managed Services Providers to achieve level 2 compliance.
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Milpitas, California — Jan 14, 2025/PRWeb/ — MX2 Technology, an executive IT leadership firm and leader in providing Managed IT, Cybersecurity and Compliance solutions, announced today that the firm has initiated an assessment to become Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 Level 2 certified. The Department of Defense’s (DoD) CMMC 2.0 program establishes increased cybersecurity […]
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Achieving CMMC 2.0 compliance is crucial for any organization involved with the DoD.
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Is your company making this quite common security mistake? Addressing it now is both good business and a major step toward CMMC compliance It’s widely expected that CMMC 2.0’s final rules will come online in March 2023. If you are a contractor to the DoD, you now have a rough deadline for compliance. If that […]
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When clients move their systems, data and infrastructure to the HITRUST Certified MX2 Platform, they are getting something more than just managed IT in a highly secure, compliant, and monitored environment. They are getting our knowledge as well.
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Too smart to fall for phishing scams? Maybe so-but is everyone in your company? Throughout history, the human propensity to trust what they shouldn’t has always been the weak link of the security chain. Probably the best example of this is the story of the Trojan Horse-not the virus, but the original one. When thinking […]
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Not long ago someone reached out to me and asked if I’d heard an interview with Dave Ryder, President of Prototron Circuits. It appeared, along with an article I wrote, in the January 2022 issue of SMT 007, devoted to cybersecurity. I’d followed the Prototron ransomware story, and I had heard Ryder’s “Lessons Learned” update. It’s compelling, and I urge you to listen to it as well.
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Recreating everything servers do and moving all of those functions and data to a secure data center
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Regular checkups help healthy people stay that way – your networks need them too
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