Just as federal agencies need a software bill of materials (SBOM) in order to have a detailed breakdown of their supply chain relationships of open-source and commercial software components, government organizations also need to apply those same principles to their…
Why a CBOM is the cyber compliance solution every government agency needs
This article originally appeared on SteelCloud’s official blog, HERE. A software bill of materials (SBOM) is something everyone in the cybersecurity field knows and understands. It was even mandated by President Biden in his Executive Order on Improving Our Nation’s…
How federal government agencies are avoiding the pitfalls of cloud migration
This article originally appeared on SteelCloud’s official blog, HERE. It takes a great deal of planning to avoid the pitfalls of cloud migration. The pace of innovation, security, and, quite frankly, the technological threat is quickening. Updating legacy processes and systems has…
SteelCloud COO on why federal government agencies should take full advantage of the commercial cloud
As the federal government continues to ride the waves of digital transformation and network modernization, one decision that many agencies have decided to make has been to migrate their applications, workloads, and services – which have been traditionally managed on-prem…
How the Defense Industrial Base Can Prepare for CMMC Level 2+
The Defense Industrial Base (DIB), – the organizations that make up the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) supply chain, is massive – comprised of hundreds of thousands of government contractors. With these organizations providing essential products, tools, and applications to…
Why a zero trust framework is the most effective at securing federal agency networks
As malicious cyber actors continue to improve and refine their techniques of penetrating and exploiting vulnerabilities in federal government agency networks, the single verification cybersecurity models that agencies have historically implemented are no longer capable of preventing breaches and attacks.…
