Importance of CMMC Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification
Posted by CMMC Marketplace on December 10th, 2019
Understanding Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and how it will affect your organization and how to prepare is important. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will be a new requirement for existing DoD contractors, replacing the self-attestation model and moving towards third party certification. The CMMC cyber certification will be built on existing requirements such as NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, AIA NAS9933, private sector contributions, and input from academia. This new certification will assure any existing problems within the Defense Industrial Base will be covered and secure. The CMMC will consist of 5 levels to measure the cybersecurity practices of contractors.
CMMC audit is being created as DOD is planning to migrate to the new CMMC framework in order to assess and enhance the cybersecurity posture of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). The CMMC is intended to serve as a verification mechanism to ensure appropriate levels of cybersecurity controls and processes are adequate and in place to protect controlled unclassified information (CUI) that resides on the department’s industry partners’ networks.
If you are facing a dilemma that how can your organization become certified, consult experts as your organization will coordinate directly with an accredited and independent third party commercial certification organization to request and schedule your CMMC assessment. Your company will specify the level of the certification requested based on your company’s specific business requirements. Your company will be awarded certification at the appropriate CMMC level upon demonstrating the appropriate maturity in capabilities and organizational maturity to the satisfaction of the assessor and certifier.
FedRAMP marketplace is the Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP) is the current administration’s attempt to set cloud computing security standards for cloud service providers. The primary goal of FedRAMP is to streamline the authorization process for government agencies to work with public and private cloud hosting companies. This is coming on the heels of certain provisions in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that require the Department of Defense to migrate data to private-sector cloud solutions. This is mainly due to assessments confirming that the private-sector is more capable of providing equal or greater security at a fraction of the cost.
FedRAMP requirements are significant concern as every state and federal agency will use FedRAMP 3PAO as a building point, and can if they so choose decide to implement a host of security requirements in addition.
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