Speaking with clients, I find one of the biggest issues they struggle with how to properly secure Guest access in Microsoft 365 applications. While many organizations had already begun outsourcing their email to M365, most had really only begun looking at the rest of the M365 offering (Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive) when COVID hit. Most organizations wound up diving headfirst into this offering in an attempt to deal with the sudden need to work and collaborate with colleagues from home.

Cybersecurity has become an important topic for the defense supply chain. The ever-increasing number of digital channels that data can be exchanged through, has exponentially increased the risk of data breaches and leaks. This puts a lot of pressure on these organizations to ensure that the risks associated with the handling of sensitive data are as low as possible.

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is a top priority for companies that have government and defense contracts, especially with the changes being rolled out in CMMC 2.0. We’re pleased at announce a new NC Protect watermarking feature to support CUI Designator labelling capability to assist US Defense and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) with meeting the new CUI document handling and tagging requirements. The feature will be globally available during the July 2022 timeframe.

We are excited to share that NC Protect for Microsoft 365 is now available in both Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Azure Government Marketplace! archTIS customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined procurement, deployment and management of NC Protect for M365 from the Marketplaces.

Missed last week’s archTIS Defense & DIB Cybersecurity Summit with leading industry and defense experts? Watch the recording for their insights on the zero trust, CMMC 2 and the new threats the industry is facing and how to best combat them.

Microsoft Teams is a fantastic collaboration tool allowing people to share data effortlessly within the same organization and even across organizations. Unfortunately, because it was built with collaboration as the primary driver, it can be easy to ‘overshare’ data you don’t want to share.

While the data breaches that make the headlines often focus on personal data, there’s a lot more at stake if a hacker cracks open the gates. There’s even higher stakes when intellectual property (IP) theft is the goal potentially stripping away an organization’s competitive advantage. It’s not just hackers that are a threat to IP. Employees, contractors and partners all pose a risk to IP from accidental or deliberate data loss.

I recently attended a virtual conference on CMMC, an upcoming security mandate for defense supply chain organizations. There were a lot of great sessions, but one that really stood out was presented by Scott Goodwin, Manager – Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory at DGC.

In the midst of a growing global cyberthreat landscape, the Australian and US governments this week announced plans to increase spend to bolster federal cybersecurity. The Australian federal government’s newly released 2022-23 federal Budget has dedicated AU$9.9 billion to support cybersecurity and intelligence capabilities under a program called Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enablers (REDSPICE).