Cybersecurity Newsletter

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

October 9, 2024

In This Edition:

1. [News] Cybersecurity Budgets: Spend More Or Spend Better?: Should organizations be spending more or better on cybersecurity? The answer is simple: spend better. With tight budgetary constraints and cybersecurity spending barely averaging just 6% of total IT budgets across industries1, there is no "unlimited" funding – even when cyber risk exposure is high, and hardly a day passes without a prominent organization have held their feet to the fire because of a cyber incident.
   
2. [Event] TechMark Innovation 2024: Immerse yourself in a day of technology, innovation, and networking at the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation, hosted by the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. This event showcases the collaborative effort of several specialized councils.
   
3. [News] Budget restrictions, staff issues, and AI are threats to states’ cybersecurity: A new survey of state chief information and security officers finds them better prepared to protect their networks from cyberattacks than four years earlier, but still worried about limited staff and resources. 
4. [News] American Water Works targeted in cybersecurity incident: American Water Works Co. recently disclosed “unauthorized activity within its computer networks and systems,” according to an SEC filing.
5. [Blog] CMMC 2.0 Update: If you handle Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) as part of your contractual work with the Department of Defense (DoD), you will be required to demonstrate compliance with the CMMC 2.0 cybersecurity framework in order to maintain your ability to bid on DoD work. 
   

Cybersecurity Budgets: Spend More Or Spend Better?

Should organizations be spending more or better on cybersecurity? The answer is simple: spend better. With tight budgetary constraints and cybersecurity spending barely averaging just 6% of total IT budgets across industries1, there is no "unlimited" funding – even when cyber risk exposure is high, and hardly a day passes without a prominent organization have held their feet to the fire because of a cyber incident.

Spend Better

 TechMark Innovation 2024

Immerse yourself in a day of technology, innovation, and networking at the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation, hosted by the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. This event showcases the collaborative effort of several specialized councils.

Register Today!

Budget restrictions, staff issues, and AI are threats to states’ cybersecurity

A new survey of state chief information and security officers finds them better prepared to protect their networks from cyberattacks than four years earlier, but still worried about limited staff and resources. 

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