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Day: March 10, 2026

CMMC Isn’t Optional Anymore, It’s Your Ticket to Stay in the Defense Supply Chain

The LinkedIn posts are starting to pile up. Defense tech founders and cybersecurity consultants all saying the same thing: CMMC is no longer just another compliance checkbox, it’s becoming the gatekeeper for who gets to play in the defense industrial base. They’re not wrong. But for small-to-medium DIB contractors handling CUI, the real question isn’t […]

CMMC Level 1 Requires 17 Safeguards 15 Controls

The official FAR clause lists 15 safeguards, but CMMC documentation often references 17 practices. Here is why: 

CMMC inherited the DoD’s earlier mapping from the DFARS 252.204-21 “Basic Safeguarding” table, where two of the FAR requirements were split into multiple CMMC practice IDs during modeling. They are not additional requirements—just a structural carryover from the original DoD-to-NIST mapping exercise.