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Your CMMC Assessment Starts Long Before the Assessor Arrives
Quick Answer: Passing a CMMC assessment is not about having the perfect System Security Plan (SSP). It is about whether your documentation accurately...
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Your AI Policy Alone Won't Save You: Why AI Governance Is Really a People Problem
Quick Answer: Creating an AI policy is an important first step, but it is not the same as AI governance. In this episode of Trust Issues, Ashley...
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The REAL Cost of CMMC: Why Contract Value Alone Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
Quick Answer: Winning a defense contract can create valuable growth opportunities, but many contractors underestimate the true cost of becoming and...
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A CMMC Self-Assessment Is a Lower Bar. The Liability Isn't.
Patrick Parker, Chief AI Officer at Altiri, explains why an honest current state assessment, a tight scope, and a complete security posture protect...
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Fear Is Not a Compliance Strategy. A Process Is.
Boe Quisenberry, vCISO at Qultimate, breaks down why CMMC decisions built on panic and guesswork cost more than the ones built on a repeatable,...
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The CMMC Pause Is Not a Cancellation. The Obligation Never Moved.
The CMMC Phase 2 pause moved one thing: the assessment. Raul Rosado, Partner at CyberCheck.One and a sitting CIO who has built security programs...
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You Can Say You're Secure. That Doesn't Make It True.
Anyone can claim their environment is secure. Michael Peters, Founder and CEO of Lazarus Alliance, a C3PAO, explains why third-party validation...
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Why Compliance Programs Break on People, Not Technology
Most organizations treat security and compliance as a technology problem with a technology answer. Mark-John McSheehy, a CISO with 35 years in the...
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What to Do During the CMMC Assessment Pause
The assessment calendar may have changed, but the obligation to protect sensitive defense information has not. Aaron Gilmore of Bees Computing...
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The CMMC Pause Changes Verification, Not Your Obligations
A pause in the CMMC rollout changes the timing of one verification mechanism. It does not cancel the contractual responsibility to protect controlled...
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What The CMMC Pause Actually Changes, And What It Does Not
A pause in the CMMC rollout can slow assessments without removing the obligations contractors and primes are already enforcing. Ari Margolin, Cyber...
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Why Most CMMC Preparation Fails Before the Technical Work Even Starts
CMMC consultant and CPISys Co-Founder Victoria Delaney explains why competence, not credentials, decides whether a compliance program actually holds...
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CMMC Is Not Just the Basics. It's the Hardest Standard in the World.
CMMC gets described as basic cyber hygiene, sometimes by the people who wrote the rules. Vincent Scott, CEO of Defense Cybersecurity Group and a...
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Build What You Can Defend, Not What You Can Certify
CMMC didn't invent the obligation to protect controlled information, and a paused rollout doesn't retire it either. Scott Palmer, a lead CMMC...