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Securing the Future: How Conquest Cyber Uses AI to Defend Against Cyber Threats
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, more and more companies are getting over their initial skepticism and beginning to embrace its usefulness. Recent statistics show that the vast majority of leading companies (91.5%) are already investing in AI to...
The C-Suites Imperative: Cybersecurity Awareness in the Digital Age
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time when organizations worldwide focus on enhancing their cybersecurity posture and promoting digital safety. While cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility, this blog is dedicated to CEOs and C-suite executives,...
Cybersecurity: The New Battlefield
War is no longer fought only on a battlefield. It happens everywhere at any moment in the devices we carry around in our back pockets and on our wrists. Cybersecurity was unheard of until 50 years ago—years before personal computers became commonplace. Now, with...
Practical Security Strategies to Protect Your Organization from Third-Party Vendor Cyber Threats
One of the internet’s greatest strengths in business, the ability to share information internally and externally, has turned into one of its biggest liabilities as cybercriminals around the globe relentlessly attack security vulnerabilities of third-party vendor...
Why Complacency Is Leaving the U.S. Electrical Grid at Risk
On a list of the critical necessities for our country’s modern way of life, at the very top has to be electricity. Not only does it provide light, keep our food from spoiling and maintain a comfortable temperature in our living spaces, it powers the many screens with...
The Frontline is On Your Front Porch
The battlefront of the digital world may be hidden, but it’s lurking right at our doorsteps. Cybersecurity affects each and every internet user – with more than 422 million individuals impacted by data compromises in the United States in 2022 alone. For the 16 sectors...
How Defense Contractors Can Move from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience
As the world’s most powerful military and economic power, the United States also holds another less impressive distinction: Cyber threat actors target the U.S. more than any other country in the world. In 2022 alone, the FBI received more than 800,000...
The Impact of Cybersecurity on Tribal Organizations: Protection and Cultural Preservation
There are currently 574 federally recognized tribes in America. Each of these tribes is its own nation – with intricacies, culture, history and more. They operate efficiently on their own for everything from healthcare to education. As Tribal organizations continue...
Centralized Visibility – Distributed Control: C- Suite leaders and a cyber resilient ecosystem in critical business sectors
Ever wonder how effective your cyber program is? You definitely should. As senior leaders, you have a fiduciary responsibility to manage risk, but as leaders in the defense industrial base, state government, energy, critical manufacturing, financial services,...
Cybersecurity 9/11 already happened. When will we act?
If you’re still waiting for a cybersecurity 9/11 or a ransomware Pearl Harbor to punch us in the gut, wake up. The equivalent has already happened. More than one, in fact. Maybe SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline1 didn’t have the same devastating visuals of...
Your SOC Isn’t Enough. You Need A Mindset.
There were no SOCs when Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War” more than 2,500 years ago. The ancient Chinese warrior’s old principles can empower new cybersecurity attitudes and approaches to fighting our newest wars in the digital realm. And make no...
It Isn’t About GCC High, It’s About Your Business
CEOs need knowledge and confidence to make effective cybersecurity decisions, especially how IT will protect business outcomes CEOs incorporate tech to serve the business; not the other way around. With everything from managed security services and GCC High to...
Cybersecurity Isn’t Only for the IT Team: Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure
A number of recent high-profile cyberattacks are acting as an urgent wake-up call for organizations across the world. In addition to these attacks against tech giants such as SolarWinds, cybercriminals are casting a wider net and targeting critical...
Energy Companies Must See Right Foe & Outcome for CMMC Compliance & Regulations
When it comes to CMMC compliance, it’s important for utility and energy companies new to CMMC regulations to be focused on the right cybersecurity outcome. It’s not only the auditor with their bureaucratic reporting who you must appease during a periodic...
What Jiu-Jitsu Tells Us About DFARS Compliance, CMMC Regulations
The Brazilian martial art of jiu-jitsu is not a goal, but a path. It can take well over a decade from starting as a novice to earning a coveted black belt. Just reaching the first belt beyond white – a blue belt – requires as many as a couple of years of...
Cybersecurity Starts With Leaders Identifying Organizational Risk
All risk management starts with business leadership, and that includes managing cybersecurity risk. It doesn’t matter if CEOs have the technical know-how, but it matters greatly that you frame what is worth protecting before leaving how to protect it to IT...
Keeping Up = Being Left Behind: SolarWinds Debacle Demands Proactive Risk-Based Security
Business leaders need to view cybersecurity with a proactive risk-based approach and stop viewing the strength of their cybersecurity on what standards and compliances they’ve gained via a check-box approach. And the latest case study of ignoring that approach...
CMMC Frequently Asked Questions from DoD Contractors
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a framework being rolled out by the Department of Defense (DoD) in an effort to combat cyber attacks and breaches. Here, we answer common questions about it. The Who, What, and Why of CMMC Compliance 1. Who does...
Defense Contractors Are Looking for the Wrong Traits in Their CISO
Threats to today’s defense industrial base (DIB) organizations exist in the digital landscape. That’s why a CISO is one of the most critical hires a defense contractor can make. While DFARS requirements and CMMC compliance are huge topics of conversation,...
Answer these 3 Questions to Adopt a Risk-Based Cybersecurity Framework
Successful cybersecurity initiatives need to be launched by a business leadership team that's clearly framed risk for the rest of the organization. That said, many executives defer this responsibility to the CISO or IT personnel because they think this group is most...
Cybersecurity Tips: Securing Financial Information In the Holiday Season
The holiday season is on the horizon making it an exciting, yet stressful season for some. The official start of the holiday shopping season is on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, where people go out to the mall to find the best deals on gifts to give to...
National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2020: The ‘Why’ Behind Building a Cybersecurity Strategy
Although it’s important to focus on what we do at Conquest Cyber and how we do it, it’s crucial that we never lose sight of the why factor. For us, this factor addresses societal issues that are much larger than just your average phishing scam. This is how we...
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, find out why this month is so important to us and why it should be important to you too as we share some tips and tricks on how to be #CyberSmart! October is a spooky month, and it can get even spookier if you’re not...
Cybersecurity in Response to COVID-19
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of employees around the world are being forced to transition into remote work to achieve social distancing. As there is so much uncertainty regarding how long this will be in effect, it is important to ensure that...
The Risk of Insider Threats in Cybersecurity
The way we work has changed forever, with a large part of the workforce operating from remote endpoints and accessing an organization’s IT infrastructure from different geographical locations. Vendors and contractors external to an organization, often access its...
Cyber Security Risks are Business Risks
Modern life is dominated by technology. We interact with technology at nearly every point throughout our day, and we have become quite dependent on our online devices. We use devices for everything from communication to retail purchases, but most importantly, to make...
