The future of CMMC has rarely been less clear. In an industry that spent years bracing for mandatory assessments, the sudden Phase II pause in July 2026 left defense contractors, government employees, C3PAOs, and MSPs all asking the same question: what happens now? MM...
Most DIB organizations reach for the same first move when AI comes up. Block it. Lock down the network, ban the apps, tell staff to stay away from anything with a chat window. With CUI, export control, and data confidentiality obligations already on the table, that...
Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally in GCC High, and the questions we’re hearing from defense contractors are less about whether they can get it and more about what happens once they turn it on. Those are different problems, and mixing them up is how organizations...
The old security operations rule was simple enough to remember and hard enough to execute. Detect the intrusion in one minute. Investigate it in 10. Respond in 60. That model gave security teams a practical way to beat human-driven attackers. A person at a keyboard...
The Phase II suspension in July has dominated the CMMC news cycle, but it’s not the only news to come out of the DoD this summer. Last month, CIO Kirsten Davies launched the new “Brilliant at the Basics” campaign, intended to provide streamlined...
