Final Rule Publication for CMMC Ready for 2025
The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the final rule for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0, and contractors will be expected to meet these standards in 2025.
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The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework is a voluntary compliance standard created with the intent of helping businesses reduce cybersecurity risks and protect critical infrastructure.
Developed with federal agencies and contractors in mind, this assessment helps companies proactively reduce risk and demonstrate a commitment to addressing evolving cybersecurity threats.
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For organizations new to compliance or trying to navigate new business processes as they relate to compliance, a readiness assessment/gap engagement will provide the needed guidance to ensure compliance prior to an assessment.
The readiness process identifies any gaps in your controls and allows you to address those gaps before going through your assessment. This can provide efficiencies to the ultimate assessment process and help save time, cost, and avoid unanticipated gaps or expansion of scope.
The National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), developed these cybersecurity standards in order to provide actionable guidelines on securing critical infrastructure from cybersecurity risks and develop better ways for key stakeholders to communicate about those risks.
Identify: Develop an understanding of processes and assets in order to better manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities. An organizational understanding will help ensure the proper flow of data and better identify vulnerabilities before they become an issue.
Protect: Implement safeguards to protect the delivery of services. Manage access to assets and information by securely protecting devices, managing vulnerabilities, and conducting regular backups.
Detect: Develop appropriate processes to alert you to the occurrence of a cybersecurity event. Test detection processes and understand the expected flow of data.
Respond: Create response plans to take action in the event of a cybersecurity incident. Regularly update response plans and coordinate with key stakeholders.
Recover: Communicate plans for resilience and create a plan to restore impaired capabilities or services.
NIST CSF compliance can help your organization be better prepared for security risks that could impact critical infrastructure or business processes.
Utilizing the NIST CSF helps to facilitate communications with internal and external stakeholders by providing easy and clear language to discuss risks.
It also allows your organization to easily evaluate your cybersecurity controls and processes with a standardized set of easily understandable criteria and develop a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity practices.
NIST CSF was designed as a voluntary security framework and is useful for any organization who might want to strengthen their cybersecurity practices.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the final rule for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0, and contractors will be expected to meet these standards in 2025.
On October 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published the final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program rule in the Federal Register.
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