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 […]
Category Archives: Cybersecurity
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Nov
Nov
Human behavior hasn’t changed and good people still get duped 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. If we were to onboard your company, […]
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Oct
Oct
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 […]
Cybersecurity
Vulnerability Prototron Study – How a vulnerability assessment might have prevented the ransomware attack
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Oct
Oct
Read how a vulnerability analysis can help avoid an event or mitigate its consequences 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. […]
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May
May
Regular checkups help healthy people stay that way – your networks need them too I’m fortunate to be in reasonably good health-and I hope the same for you. I try to keep myself that way by being careful about my diet, and while I don’t exercise as much as I should, by being an active […]
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May
May
There are hidden risks every DoD contractor needs to know about. Learn how the CMMC changes may affect your business in 2022 and beyond.
Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery
Common Cybersecurity Questions: When and how should I start protecting my business?
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Apr
Apr
Let’s start answering that question by asking a few more: Do you assume that because your in-house IT expert set up a firewall, you are safe? Do you “know” you are safe because you use a service provider to source and maintain your IT assets? If you wanted to verify that you have sufficient baseline […]
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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, […]
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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? Which CMMC level will you need going forward? The majority […]
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Nov
Nov
CMMC is a wake-up call, but if your competitors are sleeping on cybersecurity, don’t wake them Good news for small manufacturers looking for ways to stand apart from the competition. By delaying the launch of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), the Department of Defense may have actually done you a favor. They’ve handed you […]
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