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What are Cybersecurity Risk Ratings?
If you’re familiar with a credit score, you already have a better understanding of cybersecurity risk ratings than you think. A credit score is a quick and easy way to tell lenders about your creditworthiness, providing a prediction of how likely you are to pay back a...
Physical Security: How it Relates to Cyber Risk Management
Strengthening physical security could stop an attack before it happens and potentially save your organization from significant financial damages. Physical security is the protection of people, property, and physical assets from different actions and events that could...
What is CMMC?
CMMC stands for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. The United States Department of Defense is implementing the CMMC as a unifying standard for the implementation of cybersecurity across the federal government’s Defense Industrial Base (DIB). The goal of CMMC...
CMMC | Securing the Supply Chain
Business losses due to cybercrime is expected to top $5 trillion by 2024 and the threat this poses to the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is alarming. With over 300,000 businesses and organizations that make up the DIB, a cyber-attack could result in devastating losses...
CIS CONTROL #20: Penetration Tests and Red Team Exercises
4:00 min read | The CIS controls have covered basic network practices, user and account management, software protection, hardware issues, and human concerns. In the end, the question remains, do these measures adequately prevent or combat hostile actions? Being...
CIS Control #19: Incident Response and Management
3:35 min read | Implementing all the CIS controls won’t guarantee there will never be a successful attack on your systems. Sooner or later, someone could penetrate defenses and access confidential information or deposit malware. To be prepared, you need an incident...
Corporate News
What’s going on with Anchor? These postings will give you a sense of what is happening with the organization, our team and give you a sense of our culture.
Anchor to launch new product, myCYPR, at the RSA Conference in Feb. 2020
Anchor Technologies will participate in the RSA Conference this year! We will be in the expo at booth 5355. This booth and conference will serve as the official launch for the myCYPR™ cybersecurity ratings platform. myCYPR™ is the COMPLETE cybersecurity ratings...
Maryland Cybersecurity Investment Incentive Tax Credit (CIITC)
Cybersecurity is a fact of life. For any business, the necessity for security is wed to the budget available to fund a strategic cyber plan. Any assistance in obtaining services or products is a welcome support to doing business. The Cybersecurity Investment Incentive...
Anchor listed on the 2018 CRN Tech Elite 250
CRN's annual Tech Elite 250 list honors an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading IT vendors. Continued training and education are critical not only to provide...
Upcoming Events
Anchor hosts numerous activities and events every year to grow the cybersecurity community, educate our clients and friends. Stay tuned here for what’s coming up.
Waterfront Tech Series | Episode 5: Higher Tech Higher Ed
September 11, 2018 | 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202 Save the date; join Anchor and industry experts for a discussion around the future of technology and education. Tickets:...
ASAE The Center for Association Leadership
Improve Your Cybersecurity: Protect Your Members’ Data July 19, 2018 | 2:00-3:00 pm | Session Three Online Seminar Hear Anchor Technologies President & CEO, Peter Dietrich, discuss how to protect your members’ information with effective and legally compliant data...
Connect to Protect – Cybersecurity Readiness for Manufacturers
August 23 | 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. | PSA Insurance, Hunt Valley, MD Join Anchor Technologies President & CEO, Peter Dietrich, the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, Inc. (CAMI), the Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland (RMI) and PSA Insurance for an...
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