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May 4, 2020 By cs

DoD sees CMMC as new way to monitor supply chain, spot shell companies

The Defense Department wants to implement its much-discussed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program mainly to ensure every single one of its vendors is undertaking minimum levels of commonly-understood cybersecurity practices so it can protect its supply chain.

But Defense officials increasingly see CMMC as a way to monitor aspects of that supply chain that aren’t strictly about cybersecurity.

DoD expects tens of thousands of its contractors to earn a CMMC certification over the next five years. But to get one — even at the most rudimentary Level One of CMMC — each company will need an in-person visit from a third-party assessor. Those visits are primarily so that auditors can verify companies have actually implemented the security practices required for their level of certification, since no self-attestations will be allowed.

But there’s another reason DoD also wants a set of human eyes on each CMMC applicant: the department wants to make sure each firm that’s certified is actually a real company with real employees.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2020/04/dod-sees-cmmc-as-new-way-to-monitor-supply-chain-spot-shell-companies/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: assessment, CMMC, CMMC AB, CMMC accreditation, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, DCMA, DoD, MDA, NIST, risk assessment, SP 800-171, supply chain, supply chain management, supply chain security

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