Justin Doubleday, with Federal News Network, provides key takeaways from the April 26, 2024 Baroni Center webinar, Emerging Challenges for CMMC.
"The Pentagon changed many aspects of the original Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to help ease the burden on small businesses. But supporters of smaller companies in the defense industrial base still have plenty of concerns about the proposed CMMC rules," writes Doubleday.
Said Office of Advocacy Deputy Chief Counsel Major Clark, webinar speaker: The overall environment for small businesses is increasingly “treacherous. It’s not that they don’t want to participate. It’s at what cost are they going to be able to participate? And how are they going to reap any type of profit?” he said.
The On-Demand Video is surely a must see, offering fresh insights on implementation, cost, certification, and risk reporting, not to mention impacts on an organization's workforce.
Speakers represented CMMC implementation from multiple fronts:
- Richard Beutel, moderator of the panel, Baroni Center Senior Fellow, and founder of Cyrrus Analytics, has extensive experience on the Hill — as a lead acquisition and procurement policy counsel who wrote and managed FITARA
- Major Clark, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration
- Steve Kovac, Head of Compliance at ZScaler and a cybersecurity expert
- Bob Metzger, Partner at RJO, head of their cybersecurity practice and a leading SME on regulatory frameworks for cybersecurity
- Grant Schneider, Partner at Venable, and a former federal CISO