Tag: compliance

Bad actors continue targeting government organizations these days. Along with increases in targeting technology, attacks focused on government targets nearly doubled in 2019 from 2017. Most notably, this included significant jumps in both reconnaissance activity and application-specific attacks. This has been helped by an increase in internet-delivered services designed to help citizens get regional or local assistance. Unfortunately, those same internet-enabled applications have provided additional opportunities to attackers and led to large data breaches impacting federal and state agencies in the US.

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Meeting System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 compliance is more than just a simple process implemented once to pass an audit. Permanent procedural changes are tedious and time-consuming but are necessary to ensure that the organization can pass a SOC 2 audit. It’s more than simply supplying a paper trail to a CPA. You must have the right controls and tools in place to maintain compliance permanently or risk violating compliance standards. Losing SOC 2 compliance isn’t an option for most organizations, but the right tools will keep you compliant and help facilitate continual compliance in future audits.

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The coronavirus pandemic is affecting companies of all sizes all over the world and significantly impact on how many service companies deliver their services. The recommendation for social distancing is driving many employers to direct their employees to work from home, which may represent a material deviation from how they perform their daily tasks. But compliance activities don’t have to be put on hold during these challenging times. Below you can read about some of the tools we use to achieve and retain compliance while being a completely remote company.
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At KernelCare, we’ve known about SOC 2 for some time. We’ve had customers tell us that our Linux kernel live patching product helped them with their compliance certification efforts. Although KernelCare doesn’t handle customer data, we thought we should follow the good example set by our SOC 2-certified customers and become compliant. We would get to know our customers’ use-cases better, and improve as a company.

So, I’m excited, and a little nervous, to share with you the start of our own SOC 2 compliance journey. I will share more as we progress.

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Our KernelCare webinars on live patching technology and applications are growing in popularity.

So, we’re happy to tell you about another. As before, this one is in partnership with a technical architect from Amazon Web Services. And we’ve invited a prominent and established KernelCare customer from the insurance sector, Efinity.

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