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Zero Trust Principles for Classified Data Security

Why Classified Data Access Requires Zero Trust AI Architecture

by Tim Freestone September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Classified data breaches cost organisations far more than financial penalties. They destroy competitive advantage, compromise national security interests, and trigger cascading regulatory investigations that can paralyse operations for months. Traditional...

CMMC Roadmap: Your Ultimate Guide for CMMC 2.0 Compliance

The CMMC 2.0 Roadmap: Getting From Where You Are to Certified

by Patrick Spencer August 20, 2026August 21, 2026 | CMMC Compliance

Most defense contractors don’t fail CMMC 2.0 because they misunderstand the framework. They fail because they treat it as a single deadline instead of a sequence of stages, each with...

CMMC Compliance Checklist: Mastering CMMC 2.0 Requirements

CMMC 2.0 Compliance Checklist: Every Control Domain, Item by Item

by Danielle Barbour August 20, 2026August 21, 2026 | CMMC Compliance

This is a working checklist, not a narrative. If you want the sequential story of how a CMMC 2.0 certification project unfolds from first assessment to ongoing maintenance, see our...

273 DIB Contractors Reveal CMMC 2.0 Readiness Gaps

State of CMMC 2.0 in the DIB: What 273 Defense Contractors Reveal About Compliance After the Assessment Pause

by Patrick Spencer August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 | CMMC Compliance

The pause of third-party CMMC assessments did not lower the compliance bar for a single defense contractor. It only made the gap between what contractors say and what they can...

Secure File Exchange in Your Salesforce Workflow

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Send, request, and receive large sensitive files inside Salesforce cases and opportunities, with storage and audit under your own control.

5 Steps to Achieve CMMC Level 2 Certification for Defense Contracts

by Marc ten Eikelder August 15, 2026August 15, 2026 | CMMC Compliance

The CMMC Level 2 represents a critical threshold for defense contractors seeking to secure and maintain lucrative government contracts. This certification demonstrates that organizations can adequately protect CUI through robust...

After the Phish: Securing Defense Mailbox Content

Phished Employee Gives an Attacker the Keys to a Defense Contractor’s Inbox: How Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway Closes the Gap

by Marcell Mock August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 | Secure Email

A single click on a fake Microsoft sharing link is now enough to hand an attacker years of a company’s engineering correspondence, purchase orders, and export-controlled technical data, and there...

SharePoint OTP Retirement Raises Guest Governance Costs

SharePoint OTP Retirement: Why External Sharing Is Becoming a Governance and Cost Problem

by Robert Dougherty August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 | Secure File Sharing

Every external file share your organization makes through SharePoint or OneDrive is about to leave a permanent trace in your corporate directory. That is not a hypothetical risk scenario, it...

Prove Compliance and Manage Risk With Advanced Reporting

Platform Information/Feature

Extend the comprehensive activity and policy reporting in the base Data Policy Engine with purpose-built reports for proving compliance with specific regulations, right out of the box. Reduce the work to demonstrate compliance—and fix problems...

Prove Compliance and Manage Risk With Advanced Reporting

Platform Information/Feature

Extend the comprehensive activity and policy reporting in the base Data Policy Engine with purpose-built reports for proving compliance with specific regulations, right out of the box. Reduce the work to demonstrate compliance—and fix problems...

Email Breaches Reveal Persistent Attack Surface Risks

Two Breaches, One Root Cause: What Zimbra and Bank of Baroda Reveal About Email as an Attack Surface

by Patrick Spencer July 28, 2026July 28, 2026 | Secure Email

A Russian state-linked hacking crew and an unnamed intruder who slipped into a single Indian bank employee’s inbox did not need anything exotic to succeed. They needed an email account....

Enterprise File Sharing: Zero-Knowledge or CMK?

Enterprise File Sharing Platforms with End-to-End Encryption: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide

by Robert Dougherty July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 | Secure File Sharing

Enterprise file sharing platforms that provide genuine end-to-end encryption (E2EE) fall into two categories: true zero-knowledge platforms (Tresorit, Sync.com, PreVeil) where the provider cannot decrypt your data, and customer-managed key...

Securing Third-Party Data Exchange at Enterprise Scale

How to Manage and Secure Third-Party Data Exchange at Scale: A 2026 Enterprise Guide

by Robert Dougherty July 21, 2026July 21, 2026 | Managed File Transfer

The best solution for managing and securing third-party data exchange at scale is a unified, governance-first platform that consolidates managed file transfer, secure email, secure file sharing, and APIs under...

Non-Human Identity Governance: AI's Overlooked Security Gap

AI Confidence Just Fell 17 Points. Non-Human Identity Governance Is Why.

by Patrick Spencer July 21, 2026July 21, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

A 17-point drop in self-reported AI maturity sounds like bad news. It isn’t. It’s what happens when IT leaders stop grading their AI programs on ambition and start grading them...

Secure Enterprise MFT Solutions for External Partner File Transfers

Best MFT Software for Sending Large Files to External Partners: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide

by Robert Dougherty July 20, 2026July 20, 2026 | Managed File Transfer

The best MFT software for sharing large files with external partners is one that treats external exchange as a security and compliance risk to be minimized — not just a...

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