New DOD strategy aims to improve contractors’ cybersecurity, resiliency
The Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy outlines four goals as well as corresponding objectives that cover activities from fiscal 2024 to 2027.
The Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy outlines four goals as well as corresponding objectives that cover activities from fiscal 2024 to 2027.
The military services increasingly see small businesses as extensions of their enterprises and are looking at ways to support their security.
The projections were included in a proposed rule for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification that was published in the Federal Register.
The proposed rule for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification was published Dec. 26.
The DOD released the proposed rule for the highly anticipated CMMC program.
Defense Leadership Stacy Bostjanick is chief of defense industrial base cybersecurity in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. She is charged with leading Pentagon efforts to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, aimed at better protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) across the defense industrial base. The far-reaching initiative will require hundreds of […]
The submission solidifies the fact that DOD has come to a consensus on a final rule and that CMMC is coming in the not-so-distant future.
Roughly 12,000 contractors are eligible to participate today. With the new rule, that number would expand to 80,000.
The DOD is working with civilian agencies on a new FAR rule that would apply new requirements for vendors that handle controlled unclassified information.
DIB contractors that use Microsoft cloud services may only need to meet a small portion of CMMC’s 110 controls after the cloud provider passed its voluntary assessment.