CMMC | Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

Interactive Security, Inc.03 Feb, 2022Computer & Internet

Simply put, the Department of Defense (DoD) Contractor community is now required to build and maintain a proper cybersecurity posture to help protect the US from its adversaries. The official CMMC rollout will occur over several years to encompass all contracts and suppliers. The original CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) framework was released on January 31, 2020. However, the most recent version, CMMC 2.0, was unveiled in November 2021. Who Needs CMMC certification? All DoD contractors will be required to comply with CMMC, at some level, in order to bid on DoD contracts. What is CMMC 2.0? For better or worse, CMMC is now CMMC 2.0 ? this is the result of the Pentagon?s recent CMMC internal review process. It will affect different DoD Contractors in different ways, bringing minor to moderate changes, depending on their individual CMMC compliance aspirations or requirements.