The suspension of CMMC Phase 2 took mandatory third-party C3PAO assessments off the table — for now. But the Pentagon’s Defense Contract Management Agency continues to conduct assessments of contractor compliance with NIST SP 800-171. In June, those assessments led […]
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The Department of Defense’s decision to pause CMMC Phase 2 implementation created immediate uncertainty across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Many contractors began asking the same questions: Is CMMC still moving forward? Should we pause our compliance efforts? Do NIST
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CMMC Phase 2 implementation may be changing. The mission to protect the Defense Industrial Base remains. The Department of War’s decision to pause CMMC Phase 2 implementation has created significant discussion across the Defense Industrial Base. For many contractors, the
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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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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
