Healthcare organizations hear "HIPAA compliant," a reference to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), attached to almost every IT service, from email to backup to help desk [...]

Most system security plans are accurate on the day they are approved. The trouble starts the following week, when a new file share goes live, a vendor gets remote [...]

You moved to Microsoft 365 GCC High for the data handling, the eligibility controls, and the US persons support commitments. Now you have to manage the laptops. If the [...]

Impact Levels come up the moment a defense program asks where its data will live. Vendors advertise IL4 and IL5 authorizations, program offices ask for them, and it is [...]

STIG compliance comes up in almost every conversation with a defense contractor about hardening endpoints, and it is often misunderstood in both directions. Some teams assume STIGs are required [...]

CUI marking is the part of the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program that people see every day, and it is where small errors spread fastest. A document marked correctly [...]

Your data loss prevention (DLP) policies probably live where your files live: in Microsoft 365, watching email and SharePoint. That covers the cloud half of the problem. The other [...]

Most compliance programs still run on a calendar. Controls get checked before an audit, evidence gets gathered in a rush, and the environment spends the rest of the year [...]

Every IT team agrees that patching matters. The disagreement is about speed. Push updates too fast and a driver update takes down the engineering team's computer-aided design (CAD) workstations. [...]

Only the government agency that designated the information as CUI, or personnel that agency authorizes in its CUI policy, can decontrol CUI. Contractors cannot decontrol CUI on their own, [...]