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Ready or Not CMMC is Here

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) sets security standards for contractors working with the Department of Defense (DoD) to ensure the data they interact with is protected. The standards have been in place since the introduction of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFARS) in 2015, and now, 10 years later, a more formalized compliance process is being implemented.

Starting October 1, 2025, the CMMC clause will start to be used in DoD contracts. This clause requires contractors to align their security practices with the CMMC level required by the contract. While contractors have been required to meet rigorous security standards for some time, whether they did was determined primarily through self-attestation. This roll-out introduces the need for third-party validation of compliance claims, ensuring the security of the defense supply chain. Continue reading →

Government Security: Looking From the Inside Out

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With a number of high-profile security hacks involving widely used software, government agencies are retraining their focus on their organization's security measures and those of the vendors and service providers that work with them. This shift in focus was actually on the rise before the recent hacks in anticipation of cyberattacks just like the ones we've recently seen.

In January of 2020, the Defense Department implemented the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), a unified standard for implementing cybersecurity across the defense industrial base (DIB), which includes over 300,000 companies in the supply chain. Contractors have always been held responsible for implementing and documenting their IT systems' security that touch sensitive government data. Under CMMC, this continues, but adds the need for a third party to assess the contractor's compliance.

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