The Charles IT Blog

The rapid development of cyberthreats over the past years has driven small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Connecticut area to take cybersecurity seriously. However, nothing could have [...]

The growing threat of cyberwarfare has driven the federal government to enforce much tighter cybersecurity controls across the public sector. In no industry is this more apparent than in the defense [...]

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a unified standard for implementing and standardizing information security controls across the enormous Defense Industrial Base. Every company [...]

Many people still think of cybersecurity as being a technical problem and the sole responsibility of the IT department. But the truth is, cybercriminals aren’t always the skilled hackers like those [...]

Global spending on cybersecurity products and services has been increasing for years, to the point where it has become a $124 billion global industry. Moreover, many IT security leaders expect their [...]

For many contractors working for the Department of Defense (DoD), the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is nothing more than just another headache. Adopting a new set of cybersecurity [...]

In an effort to increase the resilience of its enormous supply chain, the Department of Defense has mandated that all contractors and subcontractors meet the CMMC requirements by 2026. However, the [...]

With over 300,000 defense contractors, the DoD has one of the biggest supply chains in the world. The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is constantly exposed to a wide variety of threats, including state [...]

Encryption is one of the most important features of the DoD CMMC framework, as well as any healthy cybersecurity posture. Every organization should deploy encryption across all systems which store, [...]

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a cohesive cybersecurity standard based on various security frameworks, including NIST SP 800-171 and the International Organization of [...]