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 […]
Author Archives: MX2_Admin
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Oct
Oct
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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Sep
Recreating everything servers do and moving all of those functions and data to a secure data center
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May
May
Regular checkups help healthy people stay that way – your networks need them too
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May
May
A hidden risk every DoD contractor needs to know about to understand how CMMC changes will affect their businesses
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Apr
Apr
Let’s start answering that question by asking a few more: The hard truth for the leaders of manufacturing organizations-especially those that serve the DoD is this: You might be safe, and you might not. The risk is in not knowing what you don’t know. I’m not suggesting you should become a technology expert on top […]
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Feb
Feb
DoD ‘s CMMC Included in Validated Scope MX2 Partnered with ecfirst, A HITRUST Authorized External Assessor Milpitas, California — Feb 14, 2022 — MX2 Technology, an executive IT leadership firm and leader in providing a full suite of Technology As A Service (TaaS) selections, has achieved HITRUST Certification for the company’s Private Cloud Infrastructure offering, known […]
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Jan
Jan
You can’t say you didn’t know it was coming. If you are one of the nearly 300,000 businesses that serve the DoD, by now you’ve heard that you’ll eventually be required to hold some degree of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Will you be ready?
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Nov
Nov
CMMC is a wake-up call, but if your competitors are sleeping on cybersecurity, don’t wake them
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Aug
HITRUST CSF Certification validates MX2 Technology, Inc. is committed to meeting key regulations and protecting sensitive information.