To work with any federal government entity that collects, stores, transfers, shares and disseminates information, federal agencies, contractors, and service providers must adhere to the requirements.

NIST Special Publication 800-171 plays a key role in DOD’s effort by establishing the security requirements for protecting CUI when it resides in nonfederal systems and organizations ...

One example of compliance requirements is the Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). CMMC can be understood as the verification mechanism the US government uses to audit contractors’ compliance to ...