NativeCyber Blog

We're proud to announce that NativeCyber has been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the Supplier Clearinghouse for the California Public Utilities Commission's Utility Supplier Diversity Program. This certification verifies our eligibility to supply California's investor-owned utilities — including PG&E, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, and SoCalGas — and strengthens our ability to partner with organizations committed to supplier divers

On August 8, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical command injection vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster — tracked as CVE-2026-8037, with a CVSS score of 9.6 — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after third-party telemetry identified 792 exploitation attempts from 65 unique IP addresses over a 41-day period. Under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, federal civilian agencies had until today, August 10, 2026

There's a persistent misperception that supplier diversity and technical depth are tradeoffs. For state agencies and PUCs evaluating cybersecurity vendors, that framing is wrong — and it costs procurement teams the best vendors.

StateRAMP is rapidly becoming the standard for cloud security in state government procurement. Here's what state agencies and cloud vendors both need to understand about the framework, the authorization process, and how to get ahead of it.

Small and mid-size electric utilities face the same NERC CIP requirements as large utilities — but with far fewer resources. Here's where they consistently struggle and how to build a practical compliance program that holds up to audit.

We're proud to announce that NativeCyber has officially been certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). This certification recognizes NativeCyber as a minority-owned business and strengthens our ability to partner with corporations and organizations committed to supplier diversity. Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this journey.

Data sovereignty is the new frontier of tribal self-determination. How tribes control, secure, and govern their digital information—from member enrollment data to federal grant systems—has profound implications for political sovereignty and community wellbeing.

FERPA compliance at Tribal Colleges and Universities goes beyond protecting student records—it intersects with tribal data sovereignty, research IP, and jurisdictional complexity that mainstream IT guidance ignores. Here's what TCU IT teams need to know.