by Cailey McDowell | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog
Are you still using spreadsheets to manage your CMMC compliance program? If so, you’re not alone — but you could be putting your organization at risk. Many organizations start with spreadsheets due to their familiarity and accessibility. However, this approach can...
by ASCERA | Feb 19, 2025 | Blog
Preparing for compliance audits, especially under the rigorous requirements of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), can be exhausting. Audit fatigue — the strain caused by frequent and resource-intensive compliance efforts — is a growing challenge...
by ASCERA | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog
GRC software is a tool for organizations seeking to streamline governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in a cohesive and efficient manner. By providing centralized data management, compliance tracking, and audit workflow processes, a GRC tool can help organizations...
by ASCERA | Jul 26, 2024 | Blog
Now more than ever, continuously monitoring the effectiveness of your organization’s security controls is essential. Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) provides a proactive, automated approach to managing these controls, offering real-time visibility into your...
by ASCERA | Jun 28, 2024 | Blog
Identifying how and where Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is stored, transmitted, and processed within your organization is a critical first step to achieving CMMC compliance. Many organizations overlook this step, however, leading to gap assessment fatigue,...
by ASCERA | May 31, 2024 | Blog
Planning on using your SIEM to track CMMC or DFARS compliance? While this task is possible, configuring your SIEM to accurately monitor many of the 320 NIST 800-171 objectives is a massive undertaking that requires significant time, resources, and expertise. ASCERA,...
