by Enrique Hernandez | May 11, 2026 | Compliance & Frameworks
If your manufacturing firm supplies the Department of Defense and you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI, the category of sensitive but unclassified data that the federal government needs to protect), you are on the path to CMMC 2.0 Level 2 certification...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 8, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
A regional water utility in the Southeast ran its first cyber-focused tabletop exercise last year. The Emergency Response Plan, updated on schedule for AWIA compliance, sat on the shared drive looking thorough. Twelve utility staff and three people from the supporting...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 6, 2026 | Managed IT Services
A manufacturing client of ours tried to renew their cyber insurance policy last spring. They had held coverage with the same carrier for six years, never filed a claim, and expected renewal to be routine. Instead, the carrier sent back a 14-page questionnaire,...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 4, 2026 | Manufacturing Cybersecurity
A mid-size food processor we know of had a ransomware event last year that took three days of production offline. The root cause analysis identified the initial access vector pretty quickly. An engineer at their MES (Manufacturing Execution System) integrator had a...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 1, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
A civil engineering firm we work with had a project records scare last year. A senior engineer, working from home on a Friday afternoon, accidentally synced a personal Dropbox folder to the firm’s shared drive. A few hundred gigabytes of active project...
