Compass IT Compliance Blog / Government (5)

CCPA – Compliance Before Consequence

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Becoming compliant with new laws can be frustrating. Companies are finally making it over the curve of being completely compliant under the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and now there is yet another regulation that needs to be complied with. As of June 2018, The Ca …

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Government Cyber Weaknesses & the Need for White Hats

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Have White Hat, Will Travel “A young boy, with greasy blonde hair, sitting in a dark room…[T]he weary system cracker telnets to the next faceless .mil site on his hit list.”

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New York v. Illegal Withdrawal Specialists (23 NYCRR 500)

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A brief introduction into the recent New York State Department of Financial Services 23 NYCRR 500 cybersecurity regulations.

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Updates to MA 201 CMR 17 Data Breach Law

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The Laws, they are a’ changin’… …to paraphrase Bob Dylan. And I’m speaking about privacy and breach laws. It would seem that every other day we hear of another set of customer data being compromised at another company. It could be just name and address, but it could be phone number, S …

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Federal Contractors and Subcontractors - Complying with NIST 800-171

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With just under 3 months left to go in the year, contractors and subcontractors that provide products and/or services to the Federal Government are scrambling to meet its end of year deadline or risk losing the ability to work on government contracts.

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Phishing Emails, Ransomware, and the Government

Phishing Emails, Ransomware, and the Government

Every day that you turn on the news, there is another story or article about a Ransomware attack that has taken place. Most recently, these stories are focused around healthcare organizations where significant ransoms have been demanded. What we haven't heard much about, but is just a …

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