Brenda Marie Rivers
Katie Arrington, a Department of Defense official and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said at a recent DreamPort-hosted event in Maryland that DoD and an accreditation body aim to launch in late April a pathfinder training pilot program for third-party auditors who will assess companies’ cybersecurity posture, Fifth Domain reported Sunday.
Arrington, who serves as chief information security officer in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, added that vendors who want to do business with DoD should prepare for audits as part of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process.
DoD established the CMMC accreditation body in January to train and certify third-party assessment organizations. Ty Schieber, senior director of executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, leads the 13-member CMMC-AB board.
Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Click here to register for the event.
Arrington will serve as a keynote speaker at the CMMC Forum 2020. She will address the CMMC’s timeline, how the certification process could change and will provide a memorandum of understanding with a newly established CMMC accrediting body.
A full expert panel will include Ty Schieber, senior director of executive education and CMMC-AB chairman of the University of Virginia and Richard Naylor of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) among other members of the federal sector and industry.
Register here to join Potomac Officers Club for its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2nd to learn about the impact DoD’s CMMC will have on cybersecurity practices, supply chain security and other aspects of the federal market.
