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In the past few years, the cybersecurity workplace has changed considerably. COVID created a remote and hybrid workforce trend that has made STIG and CIS Benchmark compliance all the more challenging. And while work-from-home options have supported stronger mental health, the proliferation and increased sophistication of phishing and ransomware has had the opposite effect on an already stressed and exhausted workforce.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and it’s the perfect time to explore the impacts it, and the hybrid workforce, have on your compliance efforts. Read on for insights into both issues and how you can use both challenges as springboards for creating stronger cybersecurity practices.

Since COVID, federal employees—and workers in general—are working remotely or in hybrid situations at higher rates than ever before. But it poses many challenges for STIG and CIS Benchmarks continuous compliance. Learn the simple solution.

From securing the workstations of a hybrid workforce to the broken apps that are the bane of every STIG initiative, even automation has a hard time doing it all. Unless you find the right solution. Read our list of must-haves and enter into the next generation of compliance automation.

How do you maintain a compliant environment when the workstations of remote workers are not always connected to the network? Or when connection speeds are slow? Remote and hybrid workforces present compliance challenges. Here’s how to address them.

At the height of COVID, nearly half of federal employees worked remotely. In its wake, 14% of employees now work remotely and another 25% telework at least three days a week, creating challenges for continuous STIG compliance. This panel of experts knows exactly what to do.

A 2017 report indicates that 46% of tech workers have a mental health disorder and 99% have been diagnosed with an issue in the past. Add the weight of ransomware and breaches to that and the situation is critical. It's time to change the status quo around mental health in the cybersecurity field, and SteelCloud wants to help.