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CMMC Compliance Deadline: Are You Ready for October 1st?   The DoD’s latest update to 48 CFR Part 204.75 makes it official: CMMC certification is mandatory for contractors starting October 1, 2025. If your organization handles Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), you must be certified to bid, renew, or extend DoD contracts. 🎯 Don’t risk disqualification. As a CMMC Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO), Concertium helps defense contractors like you: * Assess and close compliance gaps * Build cybersecurity policies and procedures * Train your team and prepare for certification ⏳ Time is running out. Let’s get you ready before Phase 1 begins. 📅 Book your free consultation today: concertium.com/cmmc-rpo

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Jen Easterly, former director of CISA and now a strategic advisory board member for Huntress, is focusing on boosting cyber resilience for small and medium enterprises. These organizations often face sophisticated attacks but lack the resources to defend themselves. During her CISA tenure, Easterly championed initiatives such as the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative and persistent threat hunting. These measures strengthened federal capabilities and deepened operational collaboration with the private sector, enabling rapid sharing of threat intelligence and faster mitigation of risks. In light of the shift from espionage to disruptive attacks on critical infrastructure, Easterly urges all organizations, regardless of size, to prioritize resilience - preparing for, responding to, and recovering from incidents - and to demand secure-by-design technology from vendors. "Every business, large and small, should consider themselves vulnerable. It's all about resilience. How do you understand the threat, prepare for it, be able to respond to it and then recover so that you can mitigate and drive down risk," she said. https://lnkd.in/gejpe3CB

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Quote from Article: Policy-as-Code is not merely a temporary trend but a fundamental shift in how organizations approach GRC. Soon, federal contracts may require delivery of not only human-readable SSPs but also machine-verifiable compliance packages. Audits may involve running scripts instead of reviewing PDFs. And AI-powered governance engines will cross-check deployments against codified policies in real time. #GRC #Federal #infosec

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From city halls to state agencies, SLTT organizations are on the front lines of today’s cyber conflict. Recent geopolitical activity means Iranian cyber retaliation is a realistic threat vector, especially for critical services. The Center for Internet Security published a blog on how to defend against Iran’s cyber retaliation playbook, offering clear recommendations for leadership and technical teams to strengthen defenses before an incident occurs. Share this with your executive team and security practitioners to jumpstart a focused implementation conversation. Read and discuss with your team. https://bit.ly/4cJ8l7m #cybersecurity #CollectiveCyberDefense #RiskManagement

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One of the standout moments at OTCEP 2025 — Saltanat Mashirova session on OT Disaster Recovery. She brought a refreshing and much-needed perspective by anchoring recovery planning in engineering-centric scenarios — bridging the gap between cybersecurity, operations, and safety. A great reminder that in OT, resilience isn’t just about restoring data — it’s about restoring function, flow, and safety in the real world. #OTCEP2025 #OTCybersecurity #DisasterRecovery #OperationalResilience #EngineeringDrivenCyber #CriticalInfrastructure

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Exploitation timelines are increasingly measured in days rather than weeks. Our latest report from Rapid7 Labs correlates vulnerability publication data, confirmed exploitation trends, frontline MDR incident response telemetry, and dark web, cybercrime, and nation-state intelligence to provide a unified view of how exposure evolves into compromise. One of the biggest standouts: how rapidly AI is being integrated into attacker playbooks, accelerating the operationalization of exposure. Many of the incidents we investigate still originate from known, unaddressed exposure. In those cases, attackers don’t need sophistication - they need opportunity. As remediation windows shrink, reducing that opportunity becomes essential to limiting compromise. You can download the 2026 Global Threat Landscape report here: https://r-7.co/4bQOAtq #infosec #cybersecurity

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