Jason Franks

CJIS-Mandated Vulnerability-Management Deadline is Fast Approaching — Are You Ready?

Last December, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division issued a mandate that ...
May 8, 2024

Updated NIST Cybersecurity Framework Places Greater Emphasis on Governance

The Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) developed in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
March 25, 2024

Return on Mitigation Is a Concept Worth Understanding

Everyone seems to understand intuitively that cyberattacks are bad news, especially in the public sector. A ...
March 4, 2024

As Air Travel Increases, So Must Cybersecurity Vigilance

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) declared an end to the COVID-19 pandemic last May. The best evidence ...
February 13, 2024

Let the Buyer Beware' Is a Good Adage to Embrace as It Pertains to Cybersecurity

Virtually everyone these days purchases goods and services via the internet because it is so easy and ...
December 18, 2023

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apache Struts Framework Vulnerability

As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
December 15, 2023

Cybersecurity Needs to Be as Offensive as It Is Defensive

The adage “the best defense is a good offense” is often attributed to Knute Rockne, the legendary football ...
November 21, 2023

Common Cybersecurity Mistakes And How to Prevent Them

Last month, MCP presented its fourth annual Conference for Advancing the Public Sector (CAPS), a virtual ...
October 26, 2023

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Israel-Hamas Conflict Creates a Cyberattack Surge

As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
October 19, 2023

The Scariest Public Sector Cybersecurity Trends Part 2

A previous blog explored one of the scariest trends about cybersecurity in the public sector, which is that ...
September 29, 2023

The Scariest Cybersecurity Trends Impacting the Public Sector

A recent article examined two of the scariest cybersecurity trends currently impacting public-sector ...
September 19, 2023

When It Comes to Cybersecurity, Prevention Should Be the Goal

Recently a colleague asked me to identify some of the scariest cybersecurity trends we’re seeing in the ...
July 25, 2023