The cybersecurity conversation in 2025 shifted from preparation to execution. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is now an enforceable requirement, and defense contractors are trying to keep up. On Nov. 10, Phase 1 of CMMC implementation began, […]
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If you support the Defense Industrial Base, you already know the familiar response when CMMC comes up. Someone sighs. Someone asks if the deadline moved again (it hasn’t and CMMC language will now be appearing in new DOD contracts). Someone
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As your countdown to CMMC Level 2 readiness continues, contractors handling CUI are now operating under a new reality: CMMC has moved from policy to procurement. With the final DFARS rule in Title 48 of the CFR now in effect,
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New Pentagon contracts will now include Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements as conditions of award, and contractors across the defense industrial base (DIB) are scrambling to meet compliance standards that have been mandatory in their contracts for years. Because
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The Department of Defense/War just released an update to the official CMMC FAQs. While the update does not change requirements or timelines, it does remove long-standing misinterpretations held by many organizations and service providers. These updates reinforce what we have
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Many defense contractors across the supply chain are making the dangerous assumption that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandate doesn’t apply to them. Small Doesn’t Mean Exempt from CMMC In most cases, it’s small and medium-sized businesses that
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The government shutdown has been ongoing for nearly a month. Museums closed. Federal employees furloughed. Washington is paralyzed with no end in sight. But Nov. 10 doesn’t care. While Congress remains gridlocked over funding, Phase 1 of the
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The countdown to CMMC enforcement is over. November 10 is not just another date on the calendar. It is the day the Department of Defense/War DOD/DOW begins embedding CMMC clauses into contracts and when every company in the Defense Industrial
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On Sept. 10, the newly named Department of War made its position clear: Cybersecurity is now a battlefield requirement, and federal contractors must meet heightened standards to protect sensitive data. The stakes are enormous. Malicious cyber activity cost the United
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There is no runway left. Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a final rule set to take effect Nov. 10, and defense contractors can’t consider compliance to be optional if they want to win future Department of Defense contracts. At
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