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What Is a C3PAO in CMMC?
by Kyle Daun on December 2, 2024 at 1:45 PM
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, organizations that work with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must adhere to stringent security standards to protect sensitive information. A critical component of achieving compliance with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) i …
Transitioning to CMMC 2.0 – The Five Stages of Grief
by Derek Boczenowski on November 10, 2021 at 2:46 PM
Late last week, the Pentagon put out a memo that stuck a knife in the heart of CMMC 1.0, to replace it with the new and shiny CMMC 2.0! CMMC is dead, long live CMMC!
An Introduction to CMMC Compliance
by Kyle Daun on September 30, 2021 at 1:00 PM
On January 31st, 2020, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the release of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), a framework aimed at assessing and enhancing the cybersecurity posture of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), as it relates to Controlled Unclassified …
CMMC: Moving Away from Self-Assessments
by Nicholas Foisy on July 2, 2020 at 1:00 PM
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a certification procedure developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to certify that contractors working with the DoD have the controls in place to protect sensitive data, also referred to as controlled unclassified informatio …
CMMC – What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?
by Derek Boczenowski on June 24, 2020 at 1:00 PM
There has been a lot of discussion around the cybersecurity interwebs lately about something called CMMC. CMMC stands for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, which sounds super fancy and important, but what does it really mean?