Just 1,391 organizations held a final CMMC Level 2 certificate as of the Cyber AB’s May 2026 town hall, up 14% from the month before, with another 47 conditional certificates issued and 140 assessments still in progress. The Pentagon estimates […]
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CMMC Certification Prep: Don’t Overlook the Affirming Official Most defense contractors preparing for CMMC certification focus on technical controls for access management, encryption, and incident response. Those are undoubtedly crucial, but it’s important to remember there’s a person who has
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded into the operational fabric of modern enterprises. What began as experimentation inside innovation teams has expanded into finance, legal, cybersecurity, procurement, software development, customer operations and executive decision-making itself. AI systems are generating recommendations, automating
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Many organizations pursuing CMMC certification make the same costly mistake: they start implementing security controls before they fully understand their scope. They purchase tools, migrate platforms, or build segregated enclave environments without first mapping where Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) actually
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You’ve taken the steps to assess your cybersecurity posture against NIST 800-171, implemented the required controls, and now you’re managing and maintaining your compliant state. CMMC audit readiness, otherwise known as operating compliantly, has become a way of life. CMMC
Across the technology industry, compliance initiatives are still too often approached primarily as infrastructure projects. Organizations buy tools, migrate workloads into compliant cloud environments, implement monitoring platforms, deploy identity controls and assume the problem is largely solved. That mindset misses
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CMMC Level 2 is no longer new. Most organizations understand the framework, the 110 controls, and what a C3PAO assessment requires for certification against NIST SP 800-171. What’s still less understood is what changes once CMMC implementation moves from planning into live environments, especially
If you lead a company that does business with the Pentagon, there’s a good chance someone on your IT team has mentioned CMMC to you. You may not know exactly what the acronym stands for, but you need to, because
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You’ve worked hard to achieve full compliance with CMMC 2.0 by implementing the controls outlined in NIST 800-171. Now it’s time to make sure your system doesn’t decay, sliding you into a non-compliant state. In our last blog, we discussed
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For years, cybersecurity in federal contracting was treated primarily as a compliance exercise. Requirements existed, audits occurred and gaps were remediated over time. The consequences of falling short were typically operational, not existential. That dynamic is now changing with the use
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