Your 12-Month CMMC Countdown Starts Now, Whether You Know It or Not

The clock is ticking. Contractual enforcement of CMMC begins November 10, 2025. If you’re handling CUI on DoD contracts, that’s not a future problem, it’s a today problem. Most DIB contractors need 12-18 months to reach Level 2 certification readiness, which means companies starting now are already cutting it close. Here’s what many contractors miss: […]

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.