CMMC Is Here: Contractors Need to Act Now
CMMC Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here For years, a lot of defense contractors treated compliance like a paperwork exercise. That’s over. With Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rolling out, the Department of Defense is moving away from “check-the-box” self-attestation. If you want to keep—or win—DoD contracts, you’re going to have to prove your security actually works. And not just once. Consistently. The Real Shift: From Saying It to Showing It Under NIST SP 800-171 , companies could state they were compliant. Some were solid. Others… not so much. CMMC changes the game. Now you’re dealing with third-party assessors who are going to ask: Show me your access controls in action Show me your logs Show me how you handled your last incident Show me that your policies aren’t just sitting in a folder If you can’t produce evidence, it doesn’t count. Where Companies Are Falling Short This isn’t theory—we’re seeing the same issues come up again and again: ...