Penetration testing is an increasingly common security practice for many businesses using sophisticated IT or cloud systems. Under CMMC, penetration testing is even more important because achieving higher levels of responsibility and capabilities calls for some form of penetration testing.
Here we’re discussing how penetration testing plays into CMMC regulations and when you can begin to expect it as a requirement.
Cloud and IT services in federal and defense markets are a booming business. The national infrastructure is turning to stable and flexible IT infrastructure to help mobilize the supply chain in a way that can meet modern security and domestic challenges. Accordingly, many businesses are turning to new certification frameworks like CMMC to support contracting in these areas.
Here we’re talking about what it means to prepare for CMMC certification. Contrary to popular belief, there are steps you can take to prepare before you even meet with a professional auditor to help that partner better serve you and streamline your compliance process.
ISO/IEC 27001 is widely known, providing requirements for an information security management system (ISMS), though there are more than a dozen standards in the ISO/IEC 27000 family. Using them enables organizations of any kind to manage the security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted by third parties.