Phishing attacks have been a problem for many years, but they have become increasingly difficult to detect recently because of the rise of sophisticated phishing kits. These kits provide everything a cyber-criminal needs to set up a phishing site and send out mass emails to launch a spearphishing attack.

Many of you woke up to the news that Russia has invaded Ukraine. I am not a political commentator so I will save that for the experts; however, this will have a real effect on our Cyber Security world moving forward. Let’s face it Russia and China have been equally involved in the drastic rise of cyber hacking in western countries over recent years.

Here are the latest insights into CMMC (2.0):
For most of this year, the DoD, CMMC-AB, and defense contractors were all holding their breaths while the internal investigation ran its course:

Game Changing CMMC News

Today, a report that the Department of Defense commissioned on the Review of CMMC was released. THERE ARE SO MANY THNGS THAT HAVE BEEN ROLLED BACK… READ CAREFULLY!!! There were many GAME CHANGING statements that I will share with you.

Current timeline:
Here are our best guesses at the CMMC timeline today.

Very soon: CMMC Scoping Guide will be released by DoD. This should give definitive guidance on what systems need to be assessed, and which network security requirements apply to the systems.

Huntsville has been named the second largest city in the state of Alabama. There were almost 200,000 residents reported in 2019. With population and business growth, Huntsville has been, and is still on the rise. New business opportunities from high development projects such as Facebook and Mazda Toyota, has provided a need for managed IT services.

No matter how secure businesses think their IT infrastructure is, it's still at risk of data breaches. But while online threats are becoming more sophisticated these days, the effects of cyberattacks on your Alabama company can be mitigated with a proper incident response plan.

The Department of Defense under the Secretary of State has recently created the new CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) program. This program was begun in response to the high amount of government contractors with access to CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information) who have not achieved DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement) compliance.

Many of you may have begun to hear about a new requirement that will be placed in your RFP contracts next year called the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). As your trusted advisor with new cyber regulations, I wanted to give you an update on what is known about this program.

This week we saw mobile apps making headlines. Tinder was used by a potential spy to unsuccessfully bait military secrets out of an airman and Snapchat’s source code was published on Github. The marketing campaign for the PGA championship has hit a speed bump in the form of a ransomware attack and an Australian hospital specializing in maternal health exposed treatments on the web.