Perspectives on cybersecurity, compliance, AI, and modernization for federal and state government missions.
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Cybersecurity Zero Trust in Practice: A Phased Rollout for Government Networks SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 20, 2026 5 min read Zero Trust has become a federal mandate, and with it a wave of anxiety about ripping out and replacing networ
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CMMC Level 2 Your SSP Is the Spine of a CMMC Assessment - Write It Like One KSG Posted by KSG Team May 15, 2026 4 min read Of all the documents a CMMC assessment touches, none gets more attention than the System Security Plan (SSP). It is t
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Cybersecurity From Alerts to Action: Building a SOC That Cuts Through Noise TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 6, 2026 4 min read Most Security Operations Centers do not fail for lack of data. They fail from too much of it. When analysts face tho
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CMMC Level 2 Self-Assessment vs. C3PAO: What Changes at CMMC Phase 2 TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 22, 2026 4 min read The CMMC program phases in over several years, and one transition matters more than any other for most contractors: the sh
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Strategy & Governance Writing IT Security Policy People Actually Follow KSG Posted by KSG Team May 11, 2026 4 min read Every organization has security policies. Far fewer have security policies that change behavior. The gap is rarely ab
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CMMC Level 2 Scoping CUI: The Decision That Makes or Breaks Your CMMC Cost SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 8, 2026 5 min read Before a single control is implemented, one decision quietly determines most of your CMMC cost and timeline: how y
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Digital Transformation A Pragmatic Cloud Migration Path for Risk-Averse Agencies SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 9, 2026 5 min read For agencies with strict security obligations, "move to the cloud" can sound like "take a risk you cannot af
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Cybersecurity Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Scanning: What Your Agency Actually Needs KSG Posted by KSG Team May 13, 2026 4 min read Agencies often ask for a penetration test when what they need is a vulnerability scan, or buy a qua
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Risk Management Building Meaningful KRIs and KPIs for Cyber Risk KSG Posted by KSG Team May 14, 2026 4 min read Ask a security team for metrics and you often get a wall of numbers: alerts triaged, attacks blocked, patches applied. These are
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Strategy & Governance The ISSO Playbook: Keeping Federal Systems Audit-Ready TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 18, 2026 4 min read The Information System Security Officer (ISSO) sits at the intersection of engineering, compliance, and risk.
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Artificial Intelligence Human-in-the-Loop: Designing AI Workflows Auditors Can Trust KSG Posted by KSG Team May 17, 2026 4 min read As agencies automate more with AI, a hard question follows every workflow: when something goes wrong, who is
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Emerging Tech Governed AI: Putting Copilot to Work Securely in Government TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab June 18, 2026 7 min read Agencies want AI's speed. Security teams fear the exposure. The way through isn't a better chatbot - it's refusing t
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Digital Transformation DR and COOP in the Cloud: Designing for the Day Things Break TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 23, 2026 4 min read Every system fails eventually, whether from a regional outage, a ransomware event, or simple human error. D
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Digital Transformation DevSecOps Without the Friction: Shifting Security Left in Government KSG Posted by KSG Team May 16, 2026 4 min read In too many government programs, security is the gate at the end of the road: development finishes, t
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Risk Management C-SCRM: Managing the Risk You Inherit From Your Supply Chain SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 21, 2026 4 min read No agency operates alone. Every system depends on vendors, software components, managed services, and cloud pla
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Artificial Intelligence Deploying Microsoft Copilot Securely in a Federal Tenant SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 10, 2026 5 min read Microsoft Copilot promises real productivity gains, but it inherits whatever access and data hygiene alread
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Strategy & Governance Building a Continuous ATO Program Auditors Trust SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin May 4, 2026 4 min read A traditional Authority to Operate (ATO) is a photograph. It captures a system at one moment, gets signed, and beg
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Compliance Reaching CMMC Level 2: A Practical Assessment-Readiness Roadmap SM Posted by Shariff Mohsin June 16, 2026 8 min read Mandatory third-party assessments arrive in DoD contracts on November 10, 2026 . Here is the six-step path from
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Artificial Intelligence Aligning AI Adoption to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 24, 2026 4 min read Most organizations agree AI should be used responsibly. Far fewer have a method for it. The NIST AI Risk
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Risk Management Turning POA&M Items From a Backlog Into a Risk-Reduction Engine TR Posted by Tahmeed Rab May 7, 2026 4 min read For many agencies the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) has quietly become a graveyard. Findings go
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