In November 2021, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will be undergoing three major changes to help reduce costs, streamline the compliance process, and be better aligned with other federal standards.

Major changes are underway for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Previewed in an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on November 4, 2021, the revamped program is called “CMMC 2.0”. This new certification model promises to streamline compliance for defense contractors and their suppliers, specifically by cutting the red tape, clarifying cybersecurity regulatory and ...

After months of internal study, the Department of Defense (DoD) has revealed its intention of updating the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. The following are the eight different strategic lines of thinking behind the DoD’s efforts to modify and expand the program.

With cyberattacks costing businesses and governments billions of dollars every year, it’s never been more important to adopt a proactive approach to information security.

One of the biggest challenges in building a sufficiently robust information security program is that there are so many guidelines and frameworks to choose from. Moreover, every business has a unique set of needs and a different technology infrastructure, which also means there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a systematic methodology for managing risk in your organization across the entire incident lifecycle. Although the framework is not intended to replace an organization’s risk-management practices, it can help standardize your strategy by managing risk company-wide.

Organizations can no longer afford to view cybersecurity as a necessary evil and a mere cost center. Instead, they should view it as an integral component of their value propositions now that customers are increasingly wary about who they do business with. In other words, good security is good for business, not just because it helps mitigate risk, but because it opens the door to lucrative new ...

There are three primary components of the globally adopted NIST Cybersecurity Framework: the framework core, the profiles, and implementation tiers. While the framework details the specific control categories you need to protect your data, the profiles enable you to create a strategy for reducing risk. Implementation tiers, on the other hand, establish a baseline for cybersecurity that you can ...

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a leading global standard in cybersecurity, as well as the basis of many legal regulations and other standards. There are three main elements to the framework – the framework core, profiles, and implementation tiers. These tiers are intended to provide context for stakeholders to help determine the degree to which their organizations exhibit the characteristics ...

One of the most common drawbacks of cybersecurity frameworks and standards is that they fail to make a sufficiently compelling case to business leaders. Many focus on the needs of IT teams and exhibit high technological complexity and technical challenges for implementation. Others are biased towards specific types of computing infrastructure or even specific vendors.