Don’t Panic! NIST SP 800-171r3 and FutureFeed

Don’t Panic! NIST SP 800-171r3 and FutureFeed

NIST released an initial public draft of NIST SP 800-171 r3 (“r3”) on May 10, 2023. This blog post discusses that draft and our plans for incorporating r3 into FutureFeed. NIST 800-171 Discussion Draft Last year NIST announced that they would be updating 800-171, and asked for public feedback. They used that feedback, as well…

Contractors not as Suppliers – but as Leaders

Contractors not as Suppliers – but as Leaders

I have to admit that I don’t always read things like the Executive Orders. As a regular citizen, I have always presumed they are filled with political platitudes rather than actionable direction. However, in discussing the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity with Jim Goepel, my colleague and founder of the CMMC Information Institute,…

Let’s Go DoD, There is Still Time to Fix CMMC.

Let’s Go DoD, There is Still Time to Fix CMMC.

Thank you, DoD, for showing us that you listen. In 2019 you listened and quickly created CMMC from the ether to answer a monumental need to secure our country’s supply chain. You showed you were listening again last week when you changed CMMC to address the concerns from contractors who felt CMMC 1.x was overly…

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