For anyone working with or hoping to work with the Department of Defense (DoD), cybersecurity compliance is no longer optional. It’s now a condition of doing business. The DoD created the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) to solve a growing problem within the defense supply chain: inconsistent protection of sensitive information and unreliable self-reporting of compliance.
CMMC changes that equation. It replaces self-attestation with formal certification, holding every defense contractor to clearly defined technical and legal standards. For thousands of organizations across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), those standards are both explicit and non-negotiable.
Why Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Exists
The DoD depends on a vast network of…
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