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 systematic changes to organizations and organizational systems. These modifications can quickly ensnare legacy systems and impact existing operational work flows. The 17 domains of the framework range from technical to cultural. The steps needed to fulfill these projects require dutiful project management with scope scaled congruently with company size. The certification assessment conducted by a Certified Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO) is a formidable project, regardless of company size, and similarly scales in scope and complexity with company size.
The Certified CMMC Professional (CCP) certification empowers Project Managers to traverse the ecosystem established to protect the DoDs Defense Industry Base (DIB) and its approximate 300,000 suppliers. It also provides the knowledge to manage the internal-side of a certification assessment that 80,000 DIB organizations, referred to as Organizations Seeking Certification (OSC) are facing in the near-term. Blending the cybersecurity practices of CMMC with preexisting project management knowledge ensures the organization’s assessment goes smoothly because the 110 required security practices are demonstrably performed, documented, and managed (at Level 2).
The CCP helps maximize the OSC’s homefield advantage. Speaking the same language and anticipating perquisites can shorten the time commitment and minimize the cost for your organization. These benefits are most observable while preparing for, and passing, the certification assessment, though they continue in the sustained management of the cybersecurity program.
An in-house CCP will know how to prepare for a CMMC Assessment, and how to ensure the compliance program remains “alive” since each organization will have to re-certify every three years.
The Certified CMMC Professional (CCP) training program through Monarch ISC (CMMC Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO), Licensed Training Partner (LTP), and C3PAO, leverages years of experience merged with the accredited curriculum authorized through the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body (CMMC AB). This one-week instructor-led live online training will empower students to not only prepare for their CCP exam, to be released soon, but also identify gaps within their organization’s cybersecurity program and begin preparing their OSCs for certification.
John H Rogers, CISSP, CMMC-Provisional Instructor, CMMC-Registered Practitioner, and candidate Provisional Assessor (pending suitability check) has been a technical trainer since 2002, with information and cybersecurity subject matter the focus of training and curricula development. Rogers has conducted hundreds of training sessions, including end-user awareness training, technical training for IT Professionals, leadership and board-level education, and public presentations to a wide audience across the country. Consistently rated excellent in student evaluations, Rogers brings humor, extensive subject matter expertise, and 22 years of field experience as a Senior Cybersecurity Advisor into the classroom to every session.
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The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) has been released!
The certification will be required for all Department of Defense contractors AND sub-contractors. Audits will begin in 2020. The audit timelines and the list of approved auditors have not been released.
Special Note: DoD Guidance for self-assessment scoring has been updated! You will need to provide your self-assessment (Basic) of the NIST 800-171 guidance to the Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS). The system is online NOW! Do you know your score?
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For many organizations this is a strange new world. Data security requirements have been in place for banks, merchants accepting credit cards, and healthcare organizations, but never have manufacturers and other government contractors with unclassified information faced this type of scrutiny.
This can be an overwhelming amount of work.
The certification domains cover a wide variety of topics from Asset Management to System and Information Integrity. You will need to implement the correct controls, write the appropriate policies, and keep track of your compliance activities in preparation of an audit. Failure to be certified will mean thousands, or millions, of dollars in lost government contracts.
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The FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool measures the maturity of your financial institution’s information security program. The tool helps define your current inherent risk profile and assess your compliance status across the security domains.
It can be a daunting exercise to complete.
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Our experts work with your team to complete the assessment and document any gaps in compliance. We will build a timeline for remediation, and can assist with training, risk assessments, policy building, business continuity exercises, board reporting, and more. Our work will fill the gaps and increase your maturity level.
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Our highly effective policies and plans are currently in-force at banks, credit unions, healthcare facilities, and DoD contractors. Our careful iterative process ensures your organization is understood before the writing begins. Your policies and plans need to express actual practices, not some templatized check-box fantasy that bears little resemblance to your unique organization.
We will work with you to create a new Information Security Program, or dramatically improve your existing program or any component to include:
Monarch ISC Information Security Program documents have undergone two-decades of regulatory and audit scrutiny, passed every test, and set the standard. They are the bedrock on which you will build your information security program.
V-ISO is our most engaged and complete service offering at Monarch ISC. You select the components, and we execute an annualized program acting as an outsourced member of your internal team.
This package may include everything we offer, or any of several sets of core program components. We bundle your choices, provide privileged pricing, and schedule our year together to build the program foundations. Once the foundations are built, we move into Sustainability Mode, still providing whatever level of engagement you choose.
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