The Pentagon has unveiled its plans to launch the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification through a final rule published today laying out key definitions, applicability for contractors and parameters for the assessment process. “With this final rule, DOD establishes the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program in order to verify contractors have implemented required security measures necessary to safeguard Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI),” DOD says in the final rule. It continues, “The mechanisms discussed in this...
