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S.770 – MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act of 2017 has passed the Senate vote
There is pending cybersecurity legislation that looks like it will affect almost every company on Main Street. It is known as the S.770 - MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act of 2017. What is S.770? It is [...]
DFARS Compliance and the Little Old Lady
Oli Thordarson, CEO of Alvaka Networks Alvaka Networks has a series of pages on various IT compliance regulations for sectors like HIPAA, PCI, DFARS and more. Many of these pages have web forms visitors can [...]
New password guidelines from the US federal government via NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines regarding secure passwords. Who is NIST? NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency whose purpose is to promote U.S. [...]
When is the driverless car arriving for you?
All electric and self-driving car technology fascinates me. As a race car driver, I can see that we are not too far away from the time where the computers and software will lap [...]
Preventable ransomware attack leads to unrecoverable $700,000 loss
A 10 attorney law firm discovered the cost of failing to protect its systems from ransomware the hard way. An attorney clicked on a phishing e-mail, leading to a ransomware attack. The firm [...]
What changed in NIST 800-171 r1?
If you must comply with NIST 800-171 under DFARS you may wonder what has changed with the first revision, released in December, 2016. There are two substantive changes: "Information Systems" has been replaced by "Systems" throughout [...]
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