The Defense Department is working with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body to develop a process for companies to dispute their cyber assessment results and get an objective ruling from the Pentagon's lead contracts agency. The process, defined by DOD acquisition Chief Information Security Officer Katie Arrington as "mitigation and remediation," will be incorporated into a new, no-cost contract between the Pentagon and CMMC Accreditation Body that is currently in negotiations. The dispute process will involve the Defense Industrial...
