The accreditation body behind the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program provided an update on the voluntary efforts of defense contractors to get third-party assessments at an energized town hall meeting, where stakeholders seemed encouraged by the Defense Department’s recent milestone to move toward a final rule kicking off the formal launch of the initiative. The second CMMC rulemaking entered the interagency review process on July 22 at OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. At the July 29 meeting,...
