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December 6, 2019 By cs

DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification: Are smaller companies prepared?

New requirements mean contractors will have to pay to play. What does this mean for small businesses in the defense industry?

The cybersecurity posture of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) supply chain is only as strong as its weakest contractor. When considering the DIB supply chain includes 300,000 contractors with sensitive government data, and around 290,000 of them are not subject to strict cybersecurity requirements or oversight, something needs to change.

Leading that change is the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment – OUSD(A&S) – which has developed the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), an agile set of unified cybersecurity standards to ensure the security of government data on DIB networks.

Keep reading this article at: https://securityboulevard.com/2019/11/dods-cybersecurity-maturity-model-certification-are-smaller-companies-prepared/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, DoD, federal contractors, industrial base, small business

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