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Starting Budgeting Now To Improve Your IT For Next Year

Starting Budgeting Now To Improve Your IT For Next Year

November, 2020 | Foster Charles

As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, it’s getting more difficult to keep up with constant development in the sector. Information technology budget planning is something you need [...]

Top Security Tools to Budget for in 2021

Top Security Tools to Budget for in 2021

November, 2020 | Foster Charles

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 [...]

Why an Average IT Budget for Companies Needs a DFARS Assessment

Why an Average IT Budget for Companies Needs a DFARS Assessment

November, 2020 | Foster Charles

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 [...]

5 Reasons To Include A CMMC Assessment In Your IT Department Budget

5 Reasons To Include A CMMC Assessment In Your IT Department Budget

November, 2020 | Foster Charles

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 [...]

Why Security Awareness Training Should Be in Your IT Budget for 2021

Why Security Awareness Training Should Be in Your IT Budget for 2021

November, 2020 | Foster Charles

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 [...]

Why You Need Continuous Vulnerability Scanning to Uphold CMMC Compliance

Why You Need Continuous Vulnerability Scanning to Uphold CMMC Compliance

October, 2020 | Foster Charles

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 [...]

5 Tips For Implementing A System Security Plan For The DoD CMMC Framework

5 Tips For Implementing A System Security Plan For The DoD CMMC Framework

September, 2020 | Foster Charles

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a universal cybersecurity standard, which applies across the entire supply chain of the US Department of Defense. This includes over 300,000 [...]

DFARS Cybersecurity: Requirements and Compliance

DFARS Cybersecurity: Requirements and Compliance

July, 2020 | Foster Charles

Businesses that work with the Department of Defense (DoD) understand that there are precise controls for systems that utilize classified data. What might not be as well known are the specifications [...]

5 Tips for Maintaining Security and Compliance in the Cloud

5 Tips for Maintaining Security and Compliance in the Cloud

May, 2020 | Foster Charles

More and more companies are leveraging cloud computing to cut down costs, avail new services, and benefit from the flexibility and scalability it offers. But if your small- to medium-sized business [...]

What You Need For a Secure Remote Work Setup

What You Need For a Secure Remote Work Setup

April, 2020 | Foster Charles

Social distancing is one of the important ways of limiting the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. Because of this, more businesses are asking their employees to work from home (WFH). However, the [...]

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