Questions and answers about the CMMC Rule and Guides update.
Questions and answers about the CMMC Rule and Guides update.
Throughout the CMMC Practices are references for using FIPS validated encryption to protect the storage and transmission of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). If you search the CMMC Assessment Guide “FIPS-validated” comes up 22 times! SC.3L2-3.13.11 specifically states that companies must […]
Portland, Maine [March 1, 2024] – Monarch ISC today formally announced that Michael Snyder, CISM®, CMMC-CA, CMMC-PI, has joined the company as a Senior Advisor. Mike is well-known in the cybersecurity industry as the principal curricula developer for the CMMC Accreditation […]
Late in December 2023, the Department of Defense released its much-anticipated draft rule for CMMC. We are at the end of the 60-day period for interested parties to submit comments back to the DoD. An additional 90-day period will follow, […]
If the trend continues, 2023 will become another year of over 1,000 publicly reported data breaches. According to the IT Governance Blog (itgovernance.co.uk), this translates to over five billion compromised data records. The breaches number will undoubtedly continue in number […]
If you’re not familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), welcome aboard, and read all about it here. The CMMC in Broad Strokes If you do business with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) chances are that you have […]
If you’re not familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), welcome aboard, and read all about it here. Compliance within the Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ecosystem is no easy feat. Achievement can mean months, if not years, of […]
Saco, Maine – March 14, 2022 – Monarch Information Security Consulting today announced the company’s accreditation as an authorized Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Board (CMMC-AB), under the authority of the Department of Defense. Monarch is […]
To paraphrase Frank Zappa, CMMC isn’t dead, it just smells funny. The release of CMMC 2.0 from the Department of Defense last month brings many changes to the CMMC framework. There are some positives, some negatives (in my opinion), and […]
If only the cybersecurity risk of oversharing online was common knowledge. We know people are still putting themselves in danger with how much information they share. All that information is “out there” once posted, and mostly uncontrolled. Other than the […]