by Andrew Lowe | Feb 22, 2012 | Compliance, Cybersecurity, FedRAMP
A recent GovInfoSecurity.com article indicated that President Obama’s election-year budget calls for the strengthening of government cybersecurity while reducing overall information technology spending by more than a half-billion dollars. The administrations’ budget,...
by Andrew Lowe | Oct 5, 2011 | Compliance
Baan Alsinawi’s “Taking Control of Information Security – A How-To Guide for Law Firms” appears in “Law Practice Today” “Failure to protect client records and data within law practices comes with a hefty price tag. According to a...
by Andrew Lowe | Aug 2, 2011 | Compliance, News, Risk Management
By Mollie Jewell, CISSP TalaTek began delivering FISMA continuous monitoring risk management services to its clients in 2008. At that time, this was something very few paid much attention to, and for the most part compliance efforts ended by signing the certification...
by Andrew Lowe | Jun 5, 2011 | Compliance, Cybersecurity, News
The administration is serious. In one of the first signs of how seriously the current administration takes cybercrime, on May 12 the White House sent its cybersecurity legislation to Capitol Hill, asking for changes in the law. Specifically, the White House wants the...
by Andrew Lowe | Dec 1, 2010 | Compliance, News, Risk Management
In a Nov 30, 2010 Federal Computer Week story, it was announced that the White House has instructed federal agencies to immediately evaluate their security practices. The objective: to determine if they have adequate restrictions in place on employees’ access to...
by Andrew Lowe | Nov 9, 2010 | Compliance, News, Risk Management
On November 6, 2010, The NY Times ran an article about a security breach at the General Services Agency (GSA). It was not a small breach. One of the GSA’s employees had sent the names and Social Security numbers of the agency’s entire staff to a private email address....
