Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

With agile development, the software development life cycle has evolved, with a focus on customer satisfaction to enhance product features based on user feedback. This helps shorten the time to market, since teams can release a minimally viable product, then continuously improve its features. The agile technique encourages team cooperation through sprints, daily standups, retrospectives, testing, quality assurance and deployment.

Over the last two years, the healthcare sector has been the number 1 target for hackers who have attempted to attack health centers or even the health department of an entire country. The industry faces threats such as ransomware that blocks the whole healthcare system, deceptive techniques such as phishing, or breaches of sensitive data.

CMMC 2.0 Model is the latest upgraded version of CMMC v 1.0 established back in 2020. The Department of Defense (DoD) in a bid to mitigate the growing risk of cyber security threats, released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework in January 2020. The objective behind establishing this framework was to ensure that businesses maintain an appropriate level of cybersecurity to protect Federal Contact Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

The amount of data that municipalities deal with on an everyday basis has grown exponentially. In particular, local governments have focused on upping their cybersecurity efforts due to the sensitive information and data stored and shared with state and federal government programs. It is now more important than ever to ensure effective cybersecurity within local governments. In this blog, we will take a look at how your local government can reduce impending risks and secure innate vulnerabilities.

Four years ago the Clark School of engineering at the University of Maryland published a study quantifying that there is some kind of hacker attack happening every 39 seconds (on average). Which is unreal!! Source: University of Maryland A cyberattack can harm millions of people. Let’s take for example the Atlanta ransomware attack that used the infamous SamSam ransomware. The attackers asked for a ransom of $51,000.