Rick PalermoJun 222 minWayne Hall of Ascolta accepted into Forbes Technology CouncilForbes Technology Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for World-Class CIOs, CTOs, and Technology Executives. Herndon, VA — Wayne Hall...
Rick PalermoMar 174 minAscolta Secure EnvironmentsBackground The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rule 252.204-7012 requires all non-Federal entities doing busine...
Rick PalermoFeb 242 minCMMC BoundariesWith version 1.0 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) having been signed, companies are beginning to scramble to unde...
Rick PalermoFeb 111 minDon't Fall for CMMC Offers Quite Yet!The Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CMMC) version 1.0 was published a little less than two weeks ago and already companies are offering ass...
Rick PalermoSep 13, 20192 minHelping Small Companies and Startups with CMMCAs the draft Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) begins to percolate among industry after the draft v0.4 was released earli...
Rick PalermoSep 6, 20194 minCMMC Level 1 Capabilities and PracticesPer the draft Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Model (CMMC) there will be 27 Capabilities composed of 35 Practices that compani...
Rick PalermoSep 5, 20193 minCMMC Draft v0.4 ReleasedToday the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) released version 0.4 of the Cybersecurity ...
Rick PalermoJul 29, 20191 minDoD Releases Inspector General Report on Safeguarding CUILawsuits brought by the Government against contractors not protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI); a DoD Inspector General ...
Rick PalermoJul 19, 20194 minCybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Coming Soon to a Contract Near You!For those companies that have been complying with, or trying to comply with, the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS...
Rick PalermoJul 2, 20194 minEmploying DevOps in Classified Environments (Part 3)This is the third part of a three part blog series focused on employing DevOps in classified environments. As mentioned in the first blog...
Rick PalermoJun 24, 20192 minEmploying DevOps in Classified Environments (Part 2)This is the second part of a three-part blog series focused on employing DevOps in classified environments. As mentioned in the first blo...
Rick PalermoJun 20, 20193 minEmploying DevOps in Classified Environments (Part 1)Organizations of all sizes are increasingly deploying Development Operations (DevOps) tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows...
Rick PalermoNov 16, 20183 minAscolta now offering DevOps-as-a-ServiceMany software and IT Ops teams have adopted DevOps practices into their work cultures to help them evolve into a faster, agile (pun inten...
Rick PalermoOct 9, 20182 minAscolta and HashiCorp Sign Partner AgreementHerndon, VA – Ascolta Announces System Integrator and Re-seller Partnership with HashiCorp Ascolta announced today (Oct 9th, 2018) that i...
Rick PalermoJul 18, 20181 minGreenfield tackles the Top 10, no, make that 11, hardest controlsExostar, a leading monitor of NIST compliance, recently randomly selected over 1,000 of their users that have completed the Exostar NIST ...
Rick PalermoMay 17, 20182 minIdentification and AuthenticationThis is the fifth of a fourteen piece blog series intended to describe how Ascolta Greenfield environments achieve National Institute of ...
Rick PalermoMay 17, 20182 minAwareness and TrainingThis is the second of a fourteen piece blog series intended to describe how Ascolta Greenfield environments achieve National Institute of...
Rick PalermoMay 17, 20182 minAudit and AccountabilityThis is the third of a fourteen piece blog series intended to describe how Ascolta Greenfield environments achieve National Institute of ...
Rick PalermoMay 17, 20182 minConfiguration and ManagementThis is the fourth of a fourteen piece blog series intended to describe how Ascolta Greenfield environments achieve National Institute of...
Rick PalermoMay 17, 20182 minIncident ResponseThis is the sixth of a fourteen piece blog series intended to describe how Ascolta Greenfield environments achieve National Institute of ...