CMMC is the right thing to do for Defense Cybersecurity. Cyber regulation across the US. EU and APAC, and is moving across all industry sectors. However, the CMMC program has caused the DoW to lose valuable ground. The issue with…
The United States Department of War is caught between a rock and a hard place. In one hand the DIB has had 10 years to comply with DFARS cyber, but the DoW predecessors didn’t enforce it, on the other cyberv…
US Manufacturers Assocations are advising their members that CMMC compliance is required, and only Phase II is on pause. DFARS compliance is a historic requirement, dating back to 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice has and continues to progress False…
The DoW CMMC program only added a layer of compliance assurance over cybersecurity compliance under DFARS 7012 and NIST 171, and all the recent announcements by the DoW on CMMC Phase II does is remove certification. It does nothing to…
The US United States Department of War CMMC program was always going to be a complex initiative to design and deploy. But no more complex than other global cyber regulations that include the SEC Final cyber rule, the Basel Accords…
Last week I published the enclosed, pointing to why the United States Department of War won’t be getting rid of CMMC any time soon. The week the DoW published an update placing Phase 2 of its CMMC program on hold…
The pausing of Phase 2 is a response to several challenges that the United States Department of War faces. 1. The DoW cannot afford to impact the supply chain’s ability to deliver products and services. 2. The DoW has no…
The latest challenge to beset the CMMC program came from the United States Department of War and the suspension of Phase II of the CMMC program. But not the program’s suspension. The DoW has made a decision to pause the…
The DoW is rethinking cybersecurity implementation. DFARS 7012 remains, the method for compliance and assurance will change. The Augusta Plan. @Thaddeus Dziekanowski #dfars #theaugustaplan View Original Post
The United States Department of War has suspended the second phase of the CMMC program, which involves CMMC Level 2 certification requirements being added to DoW contracts for contract award and completion. But DoW cybersecurity is not down and out,…
