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Big questions continue to swirl around CMMC in 2023

“Every single business doing any kind of business with the Department of Defense will need to get certified and get a third-party audit that they have basic cyber hygiene.”

It’s been nearly four years since former Pentagon official Katie Arrington said those words and unveiled the “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification” during a May 2019 conference in a windowless lecture hall at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

At the time, the plan was…

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“Every single business doing any kind of business with the Department of Defense will need to get certified and get a third-party audit

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CMMC spurs cybersecurity awareness, but don’t sleep on everything else

As I was about to enter a large breakout room at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville back in July 2013, I was excited to deliver a presentation on the forthcoming cybersecurity requirements contractors would face. It was a long road coming: I had applied to speak at the National Contract Management Association’s (NCMA) annual World Congress six months earlier and the presentation was not originally selected. When the agenda was released and no cybersecurity presentations…

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As I was about to enter a large breakout room at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville back in July 2013, I was excited

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