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Avoid Audit Headaches: Pick a C3PAO Who Knows Your Cloud

Avoid Audit Headaches: Pick a C3PAO Who Knows Your Cloud

Avoid Audit Headaches: Pick a C3PAO Who Knows Your Cloud By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP,…
Proving Compliance: The Critical Role of Artifacts in CMMC Audits 

Proving Compliance: The Critical Role of Artifacts in CMMC Audits 

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Proving Compliance: The Critical Role of Artifacts in…
Questions for Your Primes on CMMC Preparedness

Questions for Your Primes on CMMC Preparedness

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Questions for Your Primes on CMMC Preparedness Understanding…
Locking Down the Network: CMMC Level 2 in Action

Locking Down the Network: CMMC Level 2 in Action

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Protecting CUI Under CMMC Level 2 In Locking…
Securing the Baseline: Configuration Management for CMMC Compliance

Securing the Baseline: Configuration Management for CMMC Compliance

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Why Configuration Management Is Essential in CMMC Configuration…
Eating the CMMC Elephant: Physical Security Controls Bite-sized steps to build strong physical security for CMMC compliance

Eating the CMMC Elephant: Physical Security Controls Bite-sized steps to build strong physical security for CMMC compliance

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Understanding CMMC Physical Security Controls Of the many…
Guardians of Trust: Securing System Integrity in the CMMC Era

Guardians of Trust: Securing System Integrity in the CMMC Era

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Why Securing System Integrity in the CMMC Era…
Under the Hood: Securing System Maintenance with NIST SP 800-171

Under the Hood: Securing System Maintenance with NIST SP 800-171

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Don’t let routine fixes become security risks–track, control,…
Password Managers: Your Digital Bodyguard

Password Managers: Your Digital Bodyguard

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Password Fatigue: Why We Struggle with Secure Logins…
A Smarter Path to CMMC Compliance: Enclaves and Cloud Solutions

A Smarter Path to CMMC Compliance: Enclaves and Cloud Solutions

By Melissa McCoy, Chief Information & Security Officer – CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, RP Understanding Enclaves: Reducing Compliance Scope A Smarter Path…