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Banking & Credit Unions
FFIEC vendor-management expectations, third-party risk oversight and operational resilience requirements tied directly to examiner findings — not general IT best practice.
Industry Expertise Where It Changes the Answer
Technology risk doesn't look the same in a credit union as it does on a factory floor. MALA advisors bring your sector's regulatory context — FFIEC, HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171, GLBA, FERPA — into every assessment, so the recommendation holds up with your examiners, your auditors and your board.
Manufacturing & OT
The most-targeted sector for ransomware, per Sophos's 2025 research. We inventory OT and IT separately and phase fixes around planned downtime.
Healthcare
Tightening HIPAA Security Rule expectations, aggressive ransomware targeting and vendor risk that outpaces internal IT bandwidth — with remediation sequenced by regulatory exposure.
Aerospace & Defense
Benchmarking against all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls, mapping how CUI actually flows across engineering and subcontractor systems, and SPRS score readiness under DFARS 252.204-7012.
Government Contractors
Cybersecurity self-attestation, CUI handling and vendor risk are now as much a part of winning federal work as price and past performance.
Financial Services
Technology decisions that answer to regulators, auditors and cyber insurers at the same time — aligned to GLBA, SEC/FINRA and state insurance rules.
Research & Development
R&D organizations often lose more time to infrastructure friction than to the research itself. Research computing, data architecture and IP access control across external collaborators.
Education
Public procurement rules, taxpayer-funded budgets, FERPA and state student data privacy laws — plus the ed-tech license sprawl that accumulates on top of all of it.
Not sure where your organization fits?
Plenty of organizations sit across two or three of these at once, or in none of them cleanly. In a 30-minute conversation, a MALA advisor will talk through the specific regulatory and vendor pressures on your organization and share what we're seeing at comparable ones. Zero cost. Zero obligation.