Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
Cybersecurity Insights: Updates on CMMC Implementation and CUI Identification
Podcast - The Role of Managed Service Providers with Stuart Itkin
The When, Where, Why and How of CMMC with Fernando Machado
Podcast - The State of Contractor Cybersecurity with Katie Arrington
What Do the Newly Released CMMC 2.1 Documents Mean?
Podcast - Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Cybersecurity for Government Contractors: Success Through Compliance Readiness
Torres Talks Trade Podcast- Episode 2- Cybersecurity, the Department of Defense, and the Private Sector/Government Contracting
Compliance Into The Weeds - Retreat on DoD Cybersecurity for Contractors
Cybersecurity and 889 Compliance in 2021: What Government Contractors Need to Know
Marti Arvin and Anthony Buenger on the CMMC Framework
COVID-19’s Impact on Cybersecurity – Don’t Let Your Data Privacy, Security and Regulatory Compliance Waver
Government Contracts Cyber Café Series: Documentation - Straight Talk About CMMC
CMMC Is Coming: Are You Ready?
Government Contracts Cyber Café: 2019 Wrap Up and Privacy, CMMC, and GRC in 2020
Government Contracts Cyber Café: Emerging Evolution of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
On April 15, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD) released official guidance on Organizationally Defined Parameters (ODPs) appearing in the newly published NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3. At the same time, the DoD reaffirmed...more
The US Department of Defense (DOD) finalized a rule that takes the next steps toward fully implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program. This rule formalizes compliance requirements that will...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) has officially launched the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program, which requires federal contractors and subcontractors across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to comply...more
After numerous fits and starts, on October 14, the Department of Defense (DoD) published a final rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Borne from documented deficiencies in the...more
After years in the making, on October 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published its final rule to establish the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program, amending Title 32 of the Code of...more
On October 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) published the final version of its rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) Program under Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations...more
After a nearly five-year rulemaking process, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published the Final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC) program rule in the Federal Register on Oct. 15, 2024, codified at 32...more
WHAT: On October 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) published the final CMMC 2.0 Program rule. DOD’s final rule outlines the mechanisms that DOD will use to prescribe cybersecurity standards for safeguarding...more
Over the course of the past few years, gallons of ink have been spilled addressing the seemingly ever-pending US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program. After keeping us...more
On October 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) published the final version of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) rule in Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations (the “Final Rule”). (Reminder,...more
WHAT: On October 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) will publish the final CMMC 2.0 Program rule. DOD’s final rule outlines the mechanisms that DOD will use to prescribe cybersecurity standards for safeguarding...more
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is coming — and now appears to be coming faster than many defense contractors believed. In the latest signal of CMMC’s forward momentum, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued...more
Sequels are rarely better than the films that precede them, and yet, sometimes a story is just too compelling to be limited to just one film. At the tail end of a summer full of Hollywood sequels, the Department of Defense...more
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) took another big step on the path to instituting its highly anticipated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 program (CMMC 2.0). Once finalized, CMMC 2.0 will establish...more
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program has been a headache for many defense contractors since the idea was first introduced in 2019. The program seeks to protect unclassified information, including...more
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the third revision of its Special Publication (SP) 800-171, "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations." This...more
On December 26, 2023, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) belatedly gifted defense contractors and subcontractors a Proposed Rule on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) Program. DoD also released eight CMMC...more
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a proposed rule to implement its long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program (CMMC 2.0). This proposed rule — released on December 26, 2023, and published in...more
Well, the wait is over. Just as 2023 came to a close, on December 26, 2023, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) published the much-anticipated Proposed Rule for the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”)...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) delivered its proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program rule (CMMC) the day after Christmas this year, including several related guidance documents (listed here). The proposed...more
Contractors that do business with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) have been awaiting the issuance of a rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...more
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) announced it was preparing a proposed rule to standardize cybersecurity requirements for unclassified Federal Information Systems across federal agencies in accordance...more
The Department of Justice recently announced the launch of a Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, which has direct implications for government contractors and serves as a warning that slack cybersecurity practices will be a target...more
For nearly two years, we have been reporting on this blog about the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. CMMC is a training, certification, and third-party assessment...more
Defense contractors and their subcontractors and supply chains that have been preparing for the challenge of complying with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) recently received some welcome news from the...more