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Navigating NCUA: How the Right MSP Prepares Credit Unions for Success

April 01, 2025

Cybersecurity threats continue to rise in both volume and sophistication and for credit unions, the stakes are especially high. In response, regulatory oversight has intensified as the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has named cybersecurity its top supervisory priority for 2025. Credit unions—particularly those with limited internal IT capacity—must

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Compliance

Junior Achievement of Maine’s Titan Challenge Prepares Maine Students for Real-World Opportunity

March 17, 2025

Statewide challenge is a key experience in developing Maine’s workforce.

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Announcements

The Future of Cybersecurity for Credit Unions: How to Ease the Transition from FFIEC CAT to NIST CSF 2.0

February 12, 2025

For nearly a decade, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) has been an important tool for many financial organizations assessing cybersecurity risks. It has provided a standardized way to evaluate both inherent risks and cybersecurity maturity. However, as cyberthreats evolved, the CAT struggled to keep pace. The tool's static nature meant updates were infrequent, leaving credit unions with outdated guidance in a rapidly changing environment. 

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Compliance

CMMC Compliance: Your Role In a Critical National Security Initiative

January 30, 2025

It can often seem like compliance requirements such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) are just another burden - a chore that pulls resources away from day-to-day business operations. It’s easy to lose sight of why these initiatives matter. However, the reality is that CMMC compliance is far more than

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Compliance

CMMC Enclave vs. Enterprise-Wide Compliance: Understanding the Critical Factors

January 29, 2025

Should you immediately decide to select an enclave approach for CMMC? The real answer is that it depends. It’s an important strategic decision to make early on in your compliance journey. Understanding the pros and cons of the enclave approach—and the alternatives—will help inform which direction you choose. It comes down to balancing security with operational efficiency and productivity. Ideally, you are not giving up one for the other.

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Compliance

SECURITY ALERT: Multiple Fortinet Vulnerabilities Announced

January 15, 2025

On January 14, 2025, Fortinet announced several vulnerabilities impacting multiple products. At Systems Engineering, we are highlighting these vulnerabilities as they affect the Fortinet solutions we support. Specifically, these issues impact FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiClient EMS, and FortiClient for Windows.

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Security Bulletins & Alerts

AI-Powered Brute Force Attacks: A Growing Threat

January 13, 2025

It's no surprise that AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, but its role in amplifying brute-force attacks deserves closer attention. Brute-force attacks have long been a cybersecurity concern, where cybercriminals try to gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, or sensitive data by systematically trying every possible combination of usernames and passwords.

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Artificial Intelligence