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A NIST 800-171 checklist is a structured self-assessment tool mapped to the 110 requirements and 14 control families in NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2. Rev 2 is the operative version for DoD work: Class Deviation 2024-O0013 explicitly pins DFARS 252.204-7012 to Re

Your security team flags anomalous activity at 09:00 on a Tuesday. Logs are pulled, an initial triage begins, and by 10:30 there is enough evidence to be reasonably certain that a qualifying incident has occurred. The question is not whether you eventuall

If you have been handed an ISO 27001 compliance checklist and told to "get certified," you already know the challenge: the standard is comprehensive, the documentation requirements are substantial and the path from gap assessment to Stage 2 audit is rarel

The delay was real, but narrow. Two high-risk deadlines moved to 2027 and 2028, and that is what the headlines covered. Three sets of obligations were untouched and have been enforceable the whole time, one of them since February 2025. If your business bu

FedRAMP has moved faster in the last 18 months than it had in the decade before. If you have been trying to track where 20x stands, what the pilots produced and what any of it means for your federal market entry, the pace of change has made that genuinely

Cognisys has signed on as a Supporting Partner for the Buy Australian AI Partnership, a new initiative from Stone & Chalk, the Australian startup hub, delivered in partnership with the National AI Centre. The partnership was officially launched on 27 Augu

The red team plays the attacker. The blue team plays the defender. A red team vs blue team exercise puts both sides against each other under realistic conditions to answer one question: if a real threat actor targeted your organization today, would your s

On July 13, 2026, the Department of War announced it was suspending CMMC Phase II and launching a 60-day reform review. Phase II was due to take effect on November 10, 2026 and would have required defense contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Infor

SOC 2 compliance requirements are defined by the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria, not by a fixed checklist. Unlike ISO 27001, there is no universal list of controls every company must implement. Instead, an independent CPA firm audits your organization ag

Cognisys Appoints Steve Byrom as CEO in Planned Leadership Evolution; Founder Steve Spence Becomes Executive Chairman Cognisys, a leading global GRC and cybersecurity business, today announced the next planned step in its leadership evolution. Chief Reven