17-08-2026 21:19 via defenseone.com

CMMC Works. Now let’s sharpen it.

I built the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification because self-attestation was failing our war industrial base. Contractors could simply promise they were following basic cybersecurity practices, with no verification behind that promise. Our adversaries noticed that gap long before Washington did—and they have not eased up since. If anything, the opposite is true. Nation-state actors and the ransomware crews they tolerate or direct are more aggressive, better funded, and fas
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