CIOs have always had to worry about the challenges of preserving evidence, but now we have a whole new class of challenges. The so called Duty to Preserve comes into play when one party learns about the possibility of litigation. This happens, many times, before any lawsuit is actually filed. Once a party has reasonable […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is another short read for you (sorry). For those who read this blog on a regular basis, you know that we talk about supply chain risk a lot. Formally, the government calls it Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management or C-SCRM. Supply chain attacks are very popular because if you pull one off (think SolarWinds), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or OCC regulates federally chartered banks. Digital banks, AKA crypto vunder-kids, would like to get a bank charter for a number of reasons. One reason is that they want access to the international banking network. Another is to show that they are all grown up. But if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It **appears** that Elon Musk is going to take Twitter private. We have no clue what the result of that will be, but it might mean a more wild, wild west version of Twitter. He says that he wants less content moderation, for example. This weekend the EU appears to have agreed to the framework […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just watched a DoD town hall on their current thoughts on CMMC 2.0. Here are some of the highlights: CMMC 2.0 has been stripped down to NIST SP 800-171 (we already knew that) DoD has already had several meetings with NIST about adding (at least some of) the things that were in CMMC 1.0 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the tail end of the Trump administration, Congress passed a bill to get telecom carriers to remove Huawei network equipment from their networks as a national security issue – which it may well be. Congress allocated a billion plus dollars to help small telecom providers with the costs of doing that. The FCC thought […]
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