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    CMMC: 6 Key Takeaways

    10/20/2025 9:49 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    The CMMC final rule is here, and it's full of surprises. Cut through the noise: learn the 6 counter-intuitive takeaways that change how you approach compliance, secure contracts, and manage your IT risk. It's time to stop stressing and start executing.

    SMEs can't keep up

    06/20/2025 8:19 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    SMEs face a cybersecurity crisis: strained budgets, overstretched IT teams, and rising threats like AI-driven phishing and supply chain attacks push them to a breaking point. With a growing skills gap and compliance burdens, smaller firms struggle to keep up, risking their security and resilience.

    CrowdStrike and Microsoft

    08/09/2024 2:22 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    The time is nigh! Work with Cloud 9 to help you understand the implications of the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage, and the importance of prioritizing your resiliency plans.

    Microsoft Down!

    07/19/2024 9:31 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Microsoft and CrowdStrike work diligently to fully resolve the fallout from a major global outage.

    Google: an alternative

    06/17/2024 4:13 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Microsoft faces scrutiny after scathing report from DHS. Google says they have the answer.

    Key security Concepts, 1

    05/13/2024 5:42 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    A cybersecurity framework is a set of practices, policies, and procedures that help an organization to create an effective security program.  Key concepts for Cybersecurity is starting with a framework. There are plenty of pre-built frameworks available to guide you based on your industry,...

    How to truly go Passwordless

    04/26/2024 5:08 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Patented AI technology provides the strongest end-to-end identity verification authentication and continuous risk management for human and machine identities

    Gone Phishin'

    12/04/2023 11:53 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    How do you make sure they get it? Any Security Awareness Training (SAT) program worth it's salt should have phishing simulation built it. This article breaks down the benefits, from measuring your employees' security awareness to creating a robust culture of security within your organization

    Always-On Endpoint Management

    11/14/2023 1:06 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    In a world where employees are increasingly working from anywhere and on any device, it's more important than ever to have a solution in place that can manage and protect all endpoints at all times.

    The new SATs

    11/03/2023 3:20 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    A well orchestrated Security Awareness Training (SAT) program for every single person in your company is perhaps the single most important cybersecurity tool, feature, element, solution, or service one could implement.

    Remediation vs. Response

    10/26/2023 8:50 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    There is an important and distinct difference between response and remediation. As with many things these days there are plenty of opinions. And like other things along that train of thought, they all stink. Except this one, of course!

    EDR, XDR, and MDR

    10/17/2023 5:49 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Back in the old days the name of the cybersecurity game was prevention - if you had a strong perimeter, then you're good! That thought process has shifted rather dramatically, because we know they'll get it regardless.

    Cloud backup

    07/04/2023 1:10 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Managed cloud backup services offer many benefits, including: Improved Data Security, Disaster Recovery, Cost-Effective, Scalability, Automation. But which solutions are right for your company?

    SD-WAN and SASE

    06/15/2023 9:40 AM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    SDWAN optimizes your network. SASE secures your edge. We demystify the two fastest-growing acronyms in networking, clarify their distinct benefits for single and multi-location companies, and explain the components that create a truly unified SASE platform.

    Under Constant Attack

    07/21/2021 2:59 PM By Chuck F - Comment(s)
    Most companies only have basic firewall protection, generally hardware-based and maybe a few others may conduct regular scans of their environment. Really no different than your home having a basic lock and maybe a deadbolt.
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