Category Archive for : ‘Data Center’

NIST 800-171 and CMMC Compliance

Lifeline Data Centers is your “Easy Button” in solving NIST 800-171 and CMMC compliance issues  for the federal government. Do not be intimidated and do not feel like it will cost more than the federal contracts are worth. Your company can inherit our controls and CMMC maturity model.

On September 29, 2020, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued its long anticipated interim rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. 85 FR 61505 (Sep. 29, 2020). Along with issuing a new DFARS clause to implement CMMC,

Has the location for your data center facility been properly vetted?  There are many considerations, and they have evolved considerably since many existing data centers were constructed and put into production.

Basic Data Center Location Requirements

First, from TIA-924-A-2012 (these are very basic requirements; they must be satisfied before any discussion of Tier 3 or higher takes place):

If cooling equipment, generators, fuel tanks, or access provider equipment is situated outside the customer space, then this equipment should be adequately secured.  In the Midwest, this also means sustaining a 120 MPH wind load.
The

Lifeline Data Centers, Indiana’s only locally owned and operated group of data centers, today announces it has been awarded a new patent for innovative technology which helps combat the high energy consumption needs for data centers. The patent was issued for the power distribution center at the company’s data center located on the east side of Indianapolis.

Alex Carroll discussed Lifeline Data Center’s patent on a recent Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick:

https://youtu.be/CrXlIlB5JxE

Data centers are a vital resource for nearly every business on the planet, but their energy consumption is notoriously

Lifeline Data Centers offers corportions with the opportunity to migrate mission critical mainframe platforms to the cloud with their newest offering, Mainframe in the Cloud. Moving your mainframe to Lifeline’s FedRAMP/HITRUST Cloud is seamless, secure and provides an immediate ROI; saving nearly 70% annually.

Lifeline’s solution protects the millions of dollars invested in your COBOL source code. Lifeline’s facilities are built for and used by Fortune 500 corporations, but priced within the reach of SMB users faced with arduous uptime and/or compliance requirements.

Lifeline facilities, products, and services offer:

Secure – industrial-strength facilities,

CPI Solutions provides their simplified global service from a single source versus having to coordinate multiple acquisitions with their product, ESI. It was essential that this Enterprise Telecommunication and IT Infrastructure Services (EIS) comply with the stringent NIST 800-53 r4 and NIST 800-171 r1 controls.

That is why they chose the defense of Lifeline Federal Hosting Services by Lifeline Data Centers. The implementation and use of these control sets are mandated for US Defense Contractors that maintain Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Secret Information and Top Secret Information. A secondary site provides

IT Transformation refers to the process of enhancing information and communication technology and drive business results through technological efficiencies. However, unlike traditional investments in technology that require heavy capital investments followed by years to gain a return on investment, today’s technology investments are seeing an immediate return on investment.

IT transformation centers on improving infrastructure to encourage efficiency in systems with reduction in the waste of resources. Because so many companies are dependent on Internet-based systems and platforms, IT Transformation tends to focus on server technologies, internet infrastructure, along with advancements

It’s been 20 years since a professor coined the term “cloud computing,” using those two words to define what he considered a new “computing paradigm where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale rather than technical limits alone.”

Fast forward to 2017: Gartner is now predicting that the public cloud computing industry will climb to $236 billion by 2020, up from its current share of $146 billion. That demand will be driven in part by the increasing number of enterprises that are embracing cloud computing as a data

Floods, tornadoes, severe storms, earthquakes and hail were among the natural disasters hitting the United States in 2016. Some regions of the country, of course, are better than others when it comes to the damaging effects of Mother Nature.

But companies globally have to deal with the increasing threats caused by cyber attacks. No one is immune. These criminal acts have impacted small companies to big names as varied as Wendy’s, the FBI, Verizon, LinkedIn, CitiBank, and the Democratic National Convention, according to The Heritage Foundation.

With threats coming from all sides,

What keeps you up at night? Or sweating during the day?

More than likely, you have plenty of work-related issues that keep you stressed, including profitability, efficiency, staffing, and the company’s overall viability. But it appears that there’s a larger nightmare that has emerged as the No. 1 threat business officials fear.

A recent survey revealed that the threat of a cyber attack is among the top worries faced by business and IT leaders in 79 countries, according to a report by the Business Continuity Institute and the British Standards Institution. Also,

The debate on public versus private cloud is a fierce one with advocates on both sides. Security experts, however, consistently fall in the pro-private camp. As a compliance and security expert, I have to agree.

First, let’s be clear on the definitions.

The public cloud is available to the public—in a free or pay-per-use capacity—and is accessible via the web. Some examples include Google Apps, Office 365, file sharing applications such as Box or Dropbox, and so on.

The private cloud, on the other hand, is the same service, but it sits behind