Mike Snyder Joins Monarch as Senior Advisor

Portland, Maine [March 1, 2024] – Monarch ISC today formally announced that Michael Snyder, CISM®, CMMC-CA, CMMC-PI, has joined the company as a Senior Advisor. Mike is well-known in the cybersecurity industry as the principal curricula developer for the CMMC Accreditation

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CMMC Update

Late in December 2023, the Department of Defense released its much-anticipated draft rule for CMMC. We are at the end of the 60-day period for interested parties to submit comments back to the DoD. An additional 90-day period will follow,

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Data Breach: Anatomy of One Company’s Response

If the trend continues, 2023 will become another year of over 1,000 publicly reported data breaches. According to the IT Governance Blog (itgovernance.co.uk), this translates to over five billion compromised data records. The breaches number will undoubtedly continue in number

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The Basics Of Cybersecurity Program Management

You’ve made the decision to bring your organization to a more cyber-secure place.Maybe you’re doing this proactively – to guard your company from a cyber attack. Orperhaps you’re required to do it to achieve legal, regulatory or industry compliance. Or,worst

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Hacking Attacks: What about the Employees?

By Dr. Bianca Baker-Eck: Criminal/Cyber Psychologist & Associate Consultant at Monarch ISC, Inc. The number of hacking incidents against US companies has increased significantly in recent years[1]. The impact of these hacking incidents can be significant, and even devastating, for

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Incident Management: From Tactical to Strategic

Moving from Tactical Computer Incident Response to Strategic Organizational Intelligence Institutional Incident Response The response to a security incident, or the lack thereof, belongs to the organization. The whole organization.  Placing the responsibility for incident response (IR) into only the

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