DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a defense contractor – prime, sub or vendor to one of these and you were hoping that CMMC was going to go away, I don’t think that is going to happen – at least not on this president’s watch. Even if the party in power changes in January, I don’t much will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks Either Mozilla didn’t run much of a background check or Onerep’s CEO is great at hiding his other businesses. Mozilla hired him to provide identity protection services, but it turns out that he runs dozens of sites that provide dirt on people. Not exactly compatible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a defense contractor, then over the next few years you will likely have to be compliant and maybe certified for CMMC, either at level one or level two. Level one has about 17 controls and 59 assessment objectives; level two has 110 controls and about 315 assessment objectives. Assessment objectives are the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Marines Strap a Rocket Launcher to a Dog By the way, it was a robot dog and it not only worked, but the dog survived launching the rocket. This was a demonstration and the dog was one that they bought on Amazon for a few thousand bucks. Imagine what they can do with a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NIST Special Publication 800-171 is the guide that all defense contractors must follow for protecting controlled unclassified information. It has been around since 2015 and has gone over several revisions. Revision 3 is the most recent and NIST has released the “initial public draft”. Expect a final draft this fall and a released version in […]
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