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5 minutes with Bryce Webster-Jacobsen - What the new CMMC Framework means for defense contractors

March 8, 2021

GroupSense’s director of intelligence operations Bryce Webster-Jacobsen outlines the U.S. Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification’s Impact on Defense Contractors.

Third-party risk requires risk management and assessment for the enterprise to ensure third-parties don't threaten their security

Third parties: The risk management blind spot

David Pignolet

December 10, 2020

While providing access for third-party, non-employees is critical to meeting business objectives, it oftentimes has the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing an organization’s attack surface. With the proper identity-proofing practices and capabilities in place, organizations can verify the identities of their users, support risk management initiatives and better protect critical assets – eliminating the third-party risk management blind spots.

vulnerability in third-party software could open organizations to cyberattacks

Third-party components putting operational hardware and software technologies at risk

September 9, 2020

Claroty researchers have uncovered six critical vulnerabilities in third-party license management components, which could expose operational technology (OT) environments (hardware and software components) across numerous industries to exploits via cyberattacks.

UL Announces Supply Chain Cybersecurity Solution

May 20, 2020

UL announced the debut of its Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution, which it says helps organizations minimize supply chain cybersecurity risk by focusing on the trustworthiness of suppliers’ security practices.

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Security measures today tend to focus on controlling access, albeit with limitations. Many organizations, for example, know how many people have entered a secure location, but not how many have left.