# NexThreat Latest News Read the latest from our experts and see what's new in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics. ## Articles **Insider Threats Don't Follow a Bell Curve** If you have 100 cleared people, it isn't '1 in 100' who's a threat. Insider risk follows a power law — and the most damaging insiders produce no statistical signal at all. Jun 12, 2026](/content/news/insider-threats-dont-follow-a-bell-curve/index.html) **NexThreat is Onboarded to the Navy Seaport NxG Contract Vehicle!** NexThreat has been awarded a prime spot on the Navy SeaPort NxG Contract Vehicle under the Small Business track. This milestone is a testament to our… Jan 2, 2025](/content/news/seaport-nxg/index.html) **Mastering the Fundamentals: How We Solved a Complex System Issue Beyond Cybersecurity** Mastering the Fundamentals: How We Solved a Complex System Issue Beyond Cybersecurity We recently had a customer dealing with an intermittent connection… Sep 10, 2024](/content/news/mastering-the-fundamentals/index.html) **NexThreat Acquires MelkoTech** NexThreat, a leading cybersecurity firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, has recently expanded its operations by acquiring MelkoTech, a staffing company… Feb 2, 2024](/content/news/nexthreat-melkotech/index.html) **NexThreat Receives 8(a) certification** NexThreat, a certified 8(a), SDVOSB, and HUBZone cybersecurity firm specializing in advanced data analytics and threat hunting, is proud to announce its recent achievement of… Jul 6, 2023](/content/news/sba8-a-certification/index.html) **NexThreat Receives SDVOSB Certification** NexThreat has received the Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) certification from the U.S. Federal Government. This milestone positions… Nov 7, 2022](/content/news/sdvosb/index.html) **NexThreat Receives HUBZone Certification** NexThreat has been certified as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) company by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).… Nov 7, 2022](/content/news/hubzone/index.html) **NexThreat Earns ISO 9001:2015 Certification** NexThreat has successfully achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification. This certification, granted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO),… Aug 6, 2022](/content/news/iso-9001-2015/index.html) **NexThreat Awarded GSA Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) SIN** NexThreat has been awarded the Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) Special Item Number (SIN) by the United States General Services… Mar 13, 2022](/content/news/hacs-sin/index.html) **NexThreat Wins Splunk Insider Threat Contest** In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, organizations are faced with the growing challenge of insider threats, which can cause significant… Feb 13, 2021](/content/news/insider-threat-detection-contest/index.html) **Insider Threat: The Program Everyone Mandates and Few Operate Well** Insider threat is mandated by EO 13587 and NITTF standards — and widely misunderstood. Buying a monitoring tool is not the same as running a program.](/content/news/insider-threat-program-that-works/index.html) **AWARE Scores, Root Cause, and Why Your SIEM Brand Doesn't Matter** The CDM AWARE score is a number; the value is being able to answer why. We built an Elastic CDM stack to do root-cause analysis — and the SIEM brand was never the point.](/content/news/aware-scores-root-cause-and-your-siem/index.html) **The SIEM Is Dead, Long Live the SIEM** The fashionable take is that SIEMs are legacy and can't keep up with the alerts. Usually that's not a SIEM problem — it's a confession about data discipline.](/content/news/the-siem-is-dead-long-live-the-siem/index.html) **What CMMC Level 2 Actually Requires of a Cyber Subcontractor** CMMC is no longer a future requirement — it shows up in solicitations now, and it flows down to the subcontractors who touch CUI. Here's what Level 2 actually asks for.](/content/news/cmmc-level-2-for-subcontractors/index.html) **Data Quality Is the Hard Part of CDM** Agencies adopt CDM expecting dashboards. What the tools don't deliver is the thing that makes the view trustworthy: clean, correlated, current data. That's the hard part.](/content/news/data-quality-is-the-hard-part-of-cdm/index.html) **Zero Trust Beyond the Buzzword: Micro-Segmentation at Scale** Zero Trust stopped being optional the moment EO 14028 and OMB M-22-09 set deadlines. Micro-segmentation is where the strategy gets real — and hard.](/content/news/zero-trust-micro-segmentation-at-scale/index.html)