NIST SP 171 and CMMC From Expert CMMC Planning Advisory Perspective
Over the past few years you may have been hearing more about NIST SP 800-171 within your company. If your company is within the DIB (Defense Industrial Base) then you would have heard about this framework since 2010 when President Obama signed Executive Order 13556....
Mobile Devices and CMMC L2
A study recently shared with Ignyte posed a question that has been and is currently on many minds. How are organizations that have to adhere to CMMC level 2 handling personal devices? In other words, how do various device policies such as bring your own device...
CMMC & FedRAMP: FIPS Certified vs. Compliant vs. Validated
5 key takeaways: There is only one FIPS designation – Validated. Validation is what most auditors look for when it comes to FedRAMP and CMMC. FIPS Validation means a product has undergone and passed detailed conformance testing at an accredited national laboratory....
CMMC 2.0 Certification Costs
With the release of CMMC 2.0, and the significant changes that come with it, we have to update our cost expectations. This post covers whether CMMC is appropriate for your business, provides a cost breakdown of the 3 major effort areas, offers a rough estimate of the...