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Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

The world faces a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. TalaTek believes instilling passion for STEM can eventually help bridge this gap.

Common Workplace Cybersecurity Mistakes and How to Prevent Them

Common Workplace Cybersecurity Mistakes and How to Prevent Them

It’s become common knowledge among business professionals that as our world grows increasingly digitally connected, a major priority of most organizations will be cybersecurity. This is for good reason: as early as 2020, it was forecast that cybercrime would cost the world around $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Given the onset of the pandemic and the resulting necessity of the remote workplace, it’s …

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Skanska selects third-party cybersecurity firm

Skanska selects third-party cybersecurity firm

Because construction managers must oversee many physical assets, from materials and vehicles to personnel, something as nonsubstantive as data can easily be overlooked as an asset to protect, Dettweiler told Construction Dive. However, data such as employee social security numbers, building plans or construction time frames is easily exploitable …

How companies should prep for CMMC

How companies should prep for CMMC

It’s a new year — and a new cybersecurity regime for vendors working on defense contracts is coming. The Defense Department has been steadily working on its new unified standard, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), and is expected to release a …

US cybersecurity standards reaching global audiences

US cybersecurity standards reaching global audiences

It’s been nearly two decades since the turn of the 21st century, and gone are the days of old. In 2019, many of us have swapped our traditional cable packages for online subscription-based streaming, our gas-guzzling SUVs for battery-powered compact cars, our newspaper stands for Twitter feeds and our greasy, cholesterol-packed breakfasts for avocado toast and kale smoothies …

Q&A: TalaTek CEO Baan Alsinawi on Cybersecurity Prep for Startups

Q&A: TalaTek CEO Baan Alsinawi on Cybersecurity Prep for Startups

Every tech startup has questions about cybersecurity. Or at least, they should. Baan Alsinawi, the founder and president of D.C.-based TalaTek, has spent 13 years operating a platform focused on both controlling digital security and minimizing risk for organizations. She knows how technology can be leveraged to protect young companies’ assets, and knows how building the right security teams and solutions early is invaluable

TalaTek Named a StateRAMP 3PAO Assessor

TalaTek Named a StateRAMP 3PAO Assessor

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: How the U.S. Can Confront This New Reality

Cyberwarfare: How the U.S. Can Confront This New Reality

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.

How TalaTek Uses Amazon CloudWatch for Security Information and Event Management

How TalaTek Uses Amazon CloudWatch for Security Information and Event Management

TalaTek LLC is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner and full-service risk management firm that provides expert services in risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance.TalaTek delivers IT and risk management solutions based on NIST and ISO27001. We specialize in compliance solutions and implementing NIST standards to meet FISMA, HIPAA, and other privacy standards and regulations for …

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