NITRD Panel: CMMC: Raising the Bar on Cybersecurity Maturity

Chair: Tomas Vagoun, NITRD/NCO

Panelists:

• Stacy Bostjanick, CMMC Director, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
• Regan Edens, Chief Transformation Officer, DTC Global; Board of Directors and Chair, Committee on Standards, CMMC Accreditation Body
• Katie Stewart, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
• Moderator: Tomas Vagoun, Cybersecurity R&D Coordinator, NITRD/NCO

Abstract:

• The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is the US Department of Defense nascent methodology to assess DoD contractors' implementation of cybersecurity requirements, with the goal of improving the security of the Defense Industrial Base sector. For the first time, DoD contractors will be contractually required to satisfy certain cybersecurity practices. CMMC will likely influence cybersecurity practices across the rest of the US Government, and in the private sector. Panelists will discuss the current state of CMMC, explore what is cybersecurity maturity and how do we assess it, and discuss implications beyond the DoD.

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