Cybersecurity Recommendations in a Rapidly Emerging Telework Environment
Some companies, particularly those who work with sensitive health information, have traditionally relied extensively on physical security controls and enterprise firewalls in their office. With workforces scattered to their residences in recent days, many enterprise security controls are no longer operating in the same way.
Mining Technical Debt for Fun and Profit
That old tech debt gets a hard crust of “don’t go there” and after a while only a few people understand how it actually works. Those few people know the system well enough to develop workarounds to meet new requirements, so you don’t get a mandate to replace it.
Initial Release of the DOD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
There are five levels of CMMC certification, numbered Level 1 through Level 5 — with Level 5 being the highest, and most rigorous, standard. All vendors interacting with Federal Contract Information (FCI) will be required to meet Level 1 as a minimum, while all contracts involving accessing, transmitting, or processing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) will need to be at Level 3 or above.
Getting Started With the Upcoming DOD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). All companies and subcontractors doing business or proposing to do business with the DoD must be assessed and certified against the CMMC starting in 2020, with the full CMMC slated for publication in January of 2020. This requirement follows a number of high-visibility security incidents involving DoD information.
Dark Matter and Measuring Security
I am occasionally asked by our clients to measure how secure a thing is. That is perfectly reasonable to want to know. Is it secure enough? Do we need to spend more on security to make it secure enough? Are we getting better or worse? And so, managers are surprised, as well as disappointed, to learn that measuring security is nearly impossible.
A Minimum Viable Risk Management Program
Risk management is a fundamental requirement for all major information security frameworks, but there is little practical guidance for implementing a risk management program at small or young organizations.