Cyber AB

The latest DoD attempt at improving contractor cybersecurity runs into a buzz saw

Industry has launched a pretty strong objection to the latest version of the cybersecurity maturity model certification program, known as CMMC.

Cybersecurity

Dr. Rogers Cain, right, a primary care doctor, confers with office manager Cassandra Robinson, at his practice, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Jacksonville, Fla. Cain said it was easier to convince his elderly patients to get the vaccine but his patients under the age of 50 remain skeptical. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Federal workers injured on the job may soon have more treatment options

Federal Newscast

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CMMC Accreditation Body looks ahead to voluntary assessments, growing ‘ecosystem’

Defense News

More companies may have to get a CMMC assessment after all

Cybersecurity

Healthcare workers transport a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at the Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jefferson Bernardes)

IG: VA may have to use data better to ensure resources go where they’re needed

Federal Newscast

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An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

Congressional auditors point to challenges ahead for Pentagon’s CMMC program

Defense

Pentagon considers incentives to get companies to CMMC 2.0 early

Defense

CMMC 2.0 could take as long as two years to come online

Defense News

Pentagon strips down CMMC program to streamline industry cyber assessments

Defense

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, file photo, Republican nominee for Congress Katie Arrington concedes the race to Democrat Joe Cunningham during her news conference at the Staybridge Suites in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Arrington, a former South Carolina state lawmaker and failed congressional candidate, has been placed on leave from her Pentagon job during a probe into allegations of an unauthorized release of classified information, her attorney confirmed to The Associated Press, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

DoD’s Arrington tells court her suspension is ‘baseless,’ wants her name cleared

Defense

Pentagon CMMC review aims to address small biz cost concerns, ‘restore trust’ in assessment processes

Cybersecurity

DoD’s plan for contractor cybersecurity lacks a few things, money’s only one of them

Chris Golden of Horizons Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, said the CMMC approach is good in theory, but lacks anywhere near the resources it needs…

Cybersecurity

An update on a big program to help cybersecurity of the defense industrial base

Even for the government, the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a complicated apparatus.

Cybersecurity

Former HUD official faces punishment for Hatch Act violation during Trump administration

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Special Counsel handed down a fine and two-year ban from federal service to a former official at Housing and Urban Development.