Mission Compliance: Unleashing Growth Potential For Defense Contractors

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of the new Affirming Official in SPRS and CMMC self-attestation. Why does it matter, and what exactly are you signing up for when you become the one ‘affirming’ compliance?

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.7, highlighting the importance of restricting, disabling, or preventing the use of nonessential programs, functions, ports, protocols, and services.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.6, highlighting the importance of employing the principle of least functionality by configuring organizational systems to provide only essential capabilities.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.5, highlighting the importance of defining, documenting, approving, and enforcing physical and logical access restrictions associated with changes to organizational systems.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of why a mock assessment is important for helping your organization reduce the risk of failure, and helping to achieve CMMC Certification.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.4, highlighting the importance of analyzing the security impact of changes prior to implementation.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of role-based access control, and how it can be your gateway to compliance success.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.3, highlighting the importance of tracking, reviewing, approving or disapproving, and logging changes to organizational systems.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.2, highlighting the importance of establishing and enforcing security configuration settings for information technology products employed in organizational systems.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: CM.L2-3.4.1, highlighting the importance of establishing and maintain baseline configurations and inventories of organizational systems (including hardware, software, firmware, and documentation) throughout the respective system development life cycles.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of how CMMC 2.0 control: AC.L2-3.1.4, applies to small businesses or sole-proprietor LLCs, when separating duties may be a challenge

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.9, highlighting the importance of limiting management of audit logging functionality to a subset of privileged users.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of An in-depth breakdown of CMMC, the new timeline, and specifically what it means for your business.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.8, highlighting the importance of protecting audit information and audit logging tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.7, highlighting the importance of providing a system capability that compares and synchronizes internal system clocks with an authoritative source to generate timestamps for audit records.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.6, highlighting the importance of providing audit record reduction and report generation to support on-demand analysis and reporting.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth exploration of what CMMC means for smaller contractors, potential cost-saving strategies, and how to navigate this crucial change without breaking the bank.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.5, highlighting the importance of correlating audit record review, analysis, and reporting processes for investigation and response to indications of unlawful, unauthorized, suspicious, or unusual activity.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of Azure Government and how to determine if it’s the right cybersecurity solution for your compliance and business needs.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.4, highlighting the importance of alerting in the event of a logging failure.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.3, highlighting the importance of reviewing and updating logged events.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC and its many maturity levels. What are they, and how can they help or hinder your compliance journey?

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.2, highlighting the importance of being able to trace actions to individual users in order to hold them accountable.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of CMMC 2.0 control: AU.L2-3.3.1, highlighting the importance of creating and monitoring audit logs for the reporting of unauthorized system activity.

In this episode, we bring you an in-depth breakdown of cybersecurity and the basics of safeguarding your organization within DFARS, NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC compliance.