CMMC Phase II Pause: What Defense Contractors Need to Know The Department of Defense Has Announced It Is Pausing Implementation of CMMC On July 13, 2026, the Department of Defense announced that it is pausing implementation of CMMC Phase II while it conducts a 60-day review of the program. Watch the live announcement here: DVIDS – Video […]
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New Book Challenges Decades of Conventional Cybersecurity Thinking Cyber Defense Advisors CEO Francis Schmuff Says the Industry’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Technology—It’s Contradictory Advice What if two cybersecurity experts could give completely opposite recommendations… and both be right? That’s the provocative question posed in The Dirty Little Contradictions of Cybersecurity, the newly released book by Francis […]
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As AI Becomes Business-Critical, Hidden Security & Governance Risks Are Emerging Organizations are rapidly adopting generative AI to boost productivity. But many have yet to answer a more fundamental question: Is their AI platform secure, governable, and aligned with their long-term strategy? One employee uses AI to summarize reports. Another drafts customer emails. Engineers rely […]
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When the Algorithm Gets It Wrong: America’s Facial Recognition Problem Is Growing Fast Facial recognition promised safer streets. Instead, false arrests and AI surveillance failures are raising alarms across America. Harvey Murphy Jr. had never robbed a Sunglass Hut in Houston. He says he had never even been near the store. But after facial recognition […]
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The Canvas Breach Revealed A Dangerous New Reality — And Most Organizations Still Aren’t Ready One breach. Massive disruption. And a warning about how vulnerable modern institutions have truly become. For years, companies worried about ransomware shutting down their servers. Now? One hacked cloud platform can bring entire institutions to a halt. Overnight. That’s exactly […]
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Anthropic’s New AI Agents Aren’t Assisting Bankers Anymore. They’re Replacing Them. Built for Wall Street, they are designed to execute—not assist—core financial work. The race to turn artificial intelligence into real revenue has entered a new phase. It’s no longer about smarter chatbots or faster research. It’s about replacing actual workers—and Anthropic just made its […]
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The next bank breach won’t come from a new hack. It will come from a flaw that’s been sitting there for years—finally exposed, and putting your money at risk. Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos, has uncovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used software systems—including those relied on by major financial institutions—raising fresh […]
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CDA Achieves SBA VOSB / SDVOSB Certification — What It Means for Your Contracts & Compliance Cyber Defense Advisors (CDA) has been certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). CDA has achieved this SBA 8(a) status, further expanding our ability to support federal […]
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Introducing Our CMMC Navigator A Clear, Evidence-Driven Path to CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 Readiness CMMC readiness is won or lost on evidence, and CMMC Navigator is built to help you implement, prioritize, and produce proof on demand without the spreadsheet chaos. […]
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