Demystifying Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) In 2015, The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published the Defense Acquisition Federal Regulation Supplement, known as DFARS, which mandates that private DoD Contractors adopt cybersecurity standards, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications (SP) 800-171 cybersecurity framework. This…