September 29, 2022 | Regulatory information, Large Corporations, SME, Defence and Security, Manufacturing Industries
Every year, the Department of Defense (DoD) relies on hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial businesses to provide critical technologies and innovations that help support the men and women who are working to protect the US. Equally, DoD contracts are often the lifeblood for many of those private-sector businesses.
More recently, those companies––known as the defense industrial base (DIB)––have been the target of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. In an effort to safeguard against those attacks, the DoD initially introduced the NIST 800-171 standard to protect the confidentiality of controlled unclassified information (CUI). That program allowed defense contractors to self-attest, however after review, the department discovered a majority of contractors could not pass their audits.
October 25, 2022
(National Harbor, MD, October 25th, 2022) – The Cybersecurity Assessor and Instructor Certification Organization (CAICO) today announced the formal launch of the Certified CMMC Professional (CCP) exam that is now available to qualified candidates within the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Ecosystem.
August 16, 2023
On July 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new cybersecurity rules. Organizations will need to disclose material cyber incidents pursuant to a prescribed timeline...
December 14, 2022
The 2023 defense policy bill appears to reflect lawmakers’ desire to accelerate and integrate various tech projects—and to prod the intelligence community to emulate other agencies’ tech-innovation centers.