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Companies in line to become certified assessors for the Department of Defense‘s supply chain cybersecurity program are facing a new roadblock: Getting and passing an assessment of their own. There’s a bottleneck in licensing assessors under the DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), according to multiple organizations …
Baan Alsinawi, Managing Director of CISO Global and President and CEO of TalaTek, started her company in 2006 and was the first entrepreneur in her family. She’s had many women in cyber help her along the way as role models and mentors, which is exactly why she’s giving back by initiating the DC chapter of Girls In Tech. Baan discusses with host Hillarie McClure how she started her company, what her clients’ compliance needs are, and how she wants to help young women …
Internal Revenue Service Publication 1075 (IRS 1075) provides guidance for US government agencies, agents, and contractors that access Federal Tax Information (FTI), to make sure they use policies, practices, controls, and safeguards to protect FTI confidentiality and integrity of FTI throughout its lifecycle. FTI consists of federal tax returns and return information, and may contain personally identifiable information (PII) such as the taxpayer’s identity, and the nature, source, or …
Membership to StateRAMP, a nonprofit organization that will offer cloud security verification services to state and local governments, opens next month. Modeled after the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and leveraging the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) 800-53 controls, StateRAMP aims to bring standardization and efficiency to cloud service providers (CSPs) and agencies alike.
TYSON’S CORNER, Va., February 18, 2021 – TalaTek, an integrated risk management firm, today announced that it is now a StateRAMP 3PAO (Third Party Assessment Organization). As a StateRAMP assessor, TalaTek is helping to ensure cloud service providers (CSPs) that deliver services to state and local governments meet a specific set of cybersecurity and data privacy guidelines. As part of the StateRAMP program, TalaTek …
Cyberwarfare is the new frontier of international conflict. As a phenomenon, it is no more clearly defined than by the rising tensions between Iran and the US. In response to a rising number of attacks on federal workers by government-backed Iranian hackers, President Trump eliminated the Obama-era law against cyberwarfare to endow US federal security officials with the power to use computers as offensive weapons.
