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Whether your employees are still mostly remote, or you’ve moved into a hybrid setup, many employers are looking to return to business as usual as COVID numbers drop and speculation increases that we’re moving into the endemic phase of this illness.

We covered this topic much earlier in the pandemic, and we still agree with the advice we gave for prepping employee devices before bringing them back into the company network.

You may have thought we finished our series on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, but we would be remiss if we didn’t cover the consequences and penalties for not complying with the program if you’re a current Department of Defense (DoD) contractor.

Google began requiring 2-factor authentication on some user accounts this past year, and while there’s always some inconvenience involved in making that switch the benefits definitely outweigh it.

Google enrolled 150 million members in the last three months of 2021 in their 2-factor authentication program, and they’ve found that instances of accounts being hacked dropped by half for those users.

This is our fifth article on this topic and as we bring it to a close, I’d like to first look back at what we’ve covered so far.

We started the series looking at what’s ahead for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program in 2022. Then we covered tiers one, two and three as they exist in the current 1.0 model of the program.

Last month we released our new cyber insurance report which is an in depth look into this topic, but we wanted to touch on what we’re specifically seeing so far in 2022 in today’s article because from what we’re seeing in from our clients and in the industry – cyber insurance requirements are on the rise.

We’ve covered tier one and tier two of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, and this week we’ll be tackling tier three.

Before we dive in, we want to mention that we’re covering tier three as it exists currently (in 2022), version 1.0 has five tiers but once version 2.0 of the program releases it will be reduced to three tiers.

While business continuity plans should cover topics that extend beyond the realm of technology, it makes sense that technology naturally moves to the forefront when much of the focus of a good business continuity plan focuses on the ability to perform business functions as normal.

This is the third week of our Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Series. You can find week one, which was a look at what’s happening with CMMC in 2022 here. Last week, we gave you an overview of tier one which you can review here.

Tier one in CMMC really covers the basic foundational steps you must take to move on to tier two and tier three.

Even though major carriers AT&T and Verizon scaled back their 5G rollout scheduled for yesterday, some flights were cancelled or rerouted anyways due to the concerns that 5G could cause airline equipment to malfunction.

AT&T and Verizon turned on sections of their C-band 5G networks across the US on Wednesday but have agreed to hold off on enabling it directly near airports for now.

Last week we covered a general overview of what the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is and what’s been announced for 2022 so far. Presently, there are five maturity tiers found in program, although if (or when) version 2.0 is released it’s been announced that the program will be simplified down to just three tiers.