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Federal Civilian Agencies May Have to Comply with CMMC-Like Security Requirements

If you sell to the federal government – any agency – you need to pay attention to this. Until now only DoD contractors were going to have to comply with CMMC or NIST SP 800-171. The standard requires 100% compliance with 110 controls; some of them pretty straight forward like having each user having their […]

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Security News Update for April 7th, 2023

FDA Will No Longer Approve Digital Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable Starting last month, the FDA will REJECT all new applications for any cyber medical device that does not include a cyberattack protection plan. Of course this won’t be perfect, but at least manufacturers will have to make an effort at it. Given that the […]

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Do You Think Your Customers Care WHY it Took You 2 Years to Tell Them Their Data was Breached?

This is a secondary problem of vendor cyber risk. The first problem is that you are dependent on a lot of vendors. You have to depend on those vendors. If they screw up, you get sued. And you lose customers. To make matters worse, when one of your vendors gets breached, you are only one […]

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NY Court Is About to Rule on the Future of Crypto

If this seems hyperbolic, it may not be. In December 2020 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Ripple, who provides infrastructure for cross-border payments and also its executives with conducting a 1.3 billion dollar unregistered security offering. The core of this is whether their XRP cryptocurrency is a security. Ripple has been fighting […]

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Security News Update for March 24th, 2023

Senators Ask CISA to Investigate DJI Drones A bipartisan group of Senators is asking CISA to examine drones made by companies with deep ties to the Chinese government. DJI is the 800 pound gorilla in the high end consumer drone market, drones also used by businesses and government. While this makes sense, if they do […]

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