Melissa Burant

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Industry Iowa · Episode 85: What Is CMMC — And Why Should Iowa Manufacturers Care? · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So what I try to do is I try to set up so we have a a team of Apex Accelerator Counselors and these are gov government contracting experts who, you know, help companies navigate the the market, whether it's federal or state and local.

And so what happens is they may get a company who's interested in entering that defense market.

And there's a lot of them right now.

We've we're seeing a huge uptick in interest in that market.

There's a lot of money to be earned in that market.

And so what I usually try to do, I'm the point of contact at Cirrus for cybersecurity, is I try to have a one-on-one with them to help them determine, first of all, do you need

Do you need this?

Right?

Because I want it to be a good business decision for you.

I don't want you to go investing in something that it makes absolutely no sense for you to invest in, right?

We want we want this to be a a good decision for your business.

Is it a good decision to be have good cybersecurity practices?

100%.

However, in the

nine years that I've been following this, that often it doesn't have quite the effect or the, you know, persuasion to get people to act.

than hey, I might lose some revenue or hey, I'm losing out on business opportunities.

So I see more.

engagement because of the possibility of entering new markets or losing revenue.

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