Your Backups Are Not a Recovery Plan Until You Have Restored From Them Most firms that get hit by ransomware have backups. A meaningful share of them still pay, because the backups were reachable by the same credentials the attacker stole, or because nobody had ever timed a full restore and discovered it would take […]
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Vulnerability Management on a Small Budget: What to Scan and How Often You do not need an enterprise vulnerability management platform to run a defensible program. You need an accurate inventory, a scan cadence you actually keep, a rule for what gets fixed first, and a record that proves it happened. Most small organizations fail […]
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Application Allowlisting vs Antivirus: What NIST 800-171 Actually Asks a Small Contractor to Do Antivirus and application allowlisting are not competing products. They satisfy two different NIST 800-171 requirement families, and a contractor who swaps one for the other will fail on the family they abandoned. The recent round of commentary reminding people that NIST […]
CMMC Compliance How to Choose an MSSP When Every Vendor Sounds Alike If you have three managed security proposals on your desk and they all list the same frameworks, the same tool logos and the same certification acronyms, the certifications are not the deciding factor. The deciding factor is scope: what each provider will put in writing […]
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CMMC Phase 2 Paused: What You Still Have to Do On July 13, 2026, the Department of War paused CMMC Phase 2, effective immediately, pending a 60 day strategic review. The SBA publicly backed the decision the same day. If you are a defense contractor, you are going to hear one sentence a lot this […]
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Are CMMC Compliance Costs Recoverable Under FAR Part 31? Under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, much of what you spend to protect Controlled Unclassified Information is an allowable cost, which means it can be recovered on your government work. The spend is real. The recovery is real too, when you set it up correctly. What does […]
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The 14 Control Families Every Subcontractor Must Review Before a CMMC Self-Assessment The 14 Control Families Every Subcontractor Must Review Before a CMMC Self-Assessment | Capital Cyber Published by Capital Cyber | Leesburg, VA | (571) 410 3066 When a CMMC Level 2 self-assessment lands on your calendar, the most common mistake is reviewing controls […]
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CMMC Training Requirements: What Machine Shop Teams Must Know Published by Capital Cyber | Leesburg, VA | (571) 410 3066 Most CNC shops and precision manufacturers think CMMC compliance is an IT problem. They budget for firewalls, endpoint security, and access controls — and then forget one of the requirements that assessors flag most often: […]
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NIST 800-171 vs CMMC: What Defense Contractors Need to Know in 2026 Published by Capital Cyber | Leesburg, VA | (571) 410 3066 Ask ten defense contractors what the difference is between NIST 800-171 and CMMC, and you’ll get ten slightly different answers. Some will tell you they’re the same thing. Some will say NIST […]
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What Happens During a CMMC Audit? A Walkthrough for Manufacturers Published by Capital Cyber | Leesburg, VA | (571) 410 3066 If you’ve never been through a CMMC audit before, the experience can look intimidating from the outside — especially for a defense manufacturer that has spent 30 years running a shop and never had an outside […]
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