LEA Global News & Insights

In August 2022, the Cyber Accreditation Body (AB) announced that Voluntary Assessments of Organizations Seeking Certification (OSCs) would begin under the authority of the DoD’s Joint Surveillance Program. Under this program, an approved CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) conducts the assessment in coordination with the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center (DIBCAC). As of this writing, three of these assessments have been conducted (although not finalized) and information on how the assessments have been going is making its way into the CMMC ecosystem.

Do you know where vulnerabilities are hiding in your environment? Chances are you don’t, and a hacker might just find them for you. It’s a risk you can’t afford to take, but you can prevent it with penetration testing.

Unfortunately “hacks,” “scams,” and “rug pulls” have become some of the most used terms in a digital asset investor’s vernacular. Sophisticated attacks on cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets are among the leading reasons cryptocurrency has not achieved mainstream adoption. This emerging asset class turns off many investors who do not have the appetite to hold such risky and volatile assets that come with numerous security concerns.

Before the tectonic shift felt by businesses and industries across the U.S. due to the pandemic, our team was spending thousands of hours and budget on one task. Nine Bennett Thrasher associates monitored, manually opened, downloaded, logged and updated billing codes to confirm and initiate signed client engagement letters. This task was a 2-thousand hour per year job. BT’s Technology Services team digitally transformed one redundant task, and engagement letters are now processed in mere minutes, thanks to the implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA).