What You Need to Know! It is old news that Managed Service Providers have dramatically changed the traditional IT landscape for a great many businesses. By taking responsibility for managing the hardware, applications, software, security, and overall information technology services, the MSPs have enabled clients to focus on their core business. When properly configured and […]
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Businesses using MSPs in DoD
Traditionally, internal IT departments have taken responsibility for managing the hardware, applications, software, and managed information technology services. Regardless of doing it inhouse, outsourced or via some hybrid model, IT must ensure that the network and internal business functions run smoothly while also maintaining the security and compliance programs required by government agencies, vendors, partners, […]
CMMC Certification Fraud – What You Need to Know!
There is a clear and ever-present danger in the DoD CMMC landscape with bad actors claiming to provide CMMC Certifications. They may be contacting you directly, or at a minimum, representing themselves on-line as having the credentials to offer this service. With over 300,000 Defense Industrial Base companies being forced to navigate CMMC by the […]
NIST 800 – CMMC: The DoD is “Double Secret” Serious This Time.
It was September 20, 2017, BostonCOMPLY was participating with a partner at a seminar in Groton, CT co-sponsored by CONNSTEP and the SBA addressing DFARS and the fast-approaching NIST 800-171 implementation deadline of December 31, 2017. What happened? In truth, very little. Was it a waste? Yes and no. Had we skipped the event, we […]
TOTAL RECALL
Let’s Be Clear, It’s All About The Details While the media and government officials advance unending banter around recalls and recounts on a daily basis, many businesses are facing a much greater threat – a TOTAL RECALL. Typically, recalls associated with food, packaging, automotive, medicinal drugs, and more, have certain impacts, examples being – Tylenol […]
Is Any Company Safe? FireEye Gets Burned
One of the world’s largest security firms, FireEye, was hacked, and the tools FireEye uses to test the networks of its customers were stolen. Like Symantec, Trend, Kaspersky, RSA and Bit9 before them, it just proves that no business is exempt from individual bad actors, Nation-States, or any other group around the globe. In fact, […]
