Episode 85: What Is CMMC — And Why Should Iowa Manufacturers Care?
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Okay. You're listening to Industry Iowa, presented by CIRIS, the Center for Industrial Research and Service. Here's your host. Steven Wilson.
All right. Well. Hello Melissa. Hello, welcome to Industry Iowa. Little did you know, well you did know. Little did you know you were you you were joining me this morning uh in studio, your studio, my studio, uh however we want to call it. But thanks for being on Industry Iowa.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Yeah, and uh for those of you that don't know, I think Melissa, you've been on one of the uh previous episodes, right? Uh Melissa is is with Cirrus, has been with Cirrus uh for a few near years now. So Melissa, reintroduce yourself to everyone uh that uh that may not have known that do not know who you are.
So I have been with Cirrus. It'll be 12 years in August. Uh previous to working for Cirrus, I worked for the federal government, which is how I come by the role of working with this cybersecurity that we're gonna talk about today. I do a lot of work with companies in supply chain across the state. And um I run a program called supplier scouting. So helping companies match them up to their, you know, needs that they have, whether it's a new supplier or a material shortage, I do a lot of different things and uh I find a lot of joy in helping companies with with the knowledge that I have.
Yes, a lot of different things. That's that uh other do additional duties as assigned, right?
Yes.
So uh Yeah, all of the the uh this uh cybersecurity and all of that we're gonna be talking about um Let's start with a just maybe a a a simple, straightforward one for some, but others not. What what is CMMC uh and uh why why was it created?
Yes, so it is the CMMC is the cyber maturity mature cybersecurity maturity model certification. It is a framework that was put in place to ensure that companies were actually doing what they say they were doing when they sign their government contracts or. Um, they may not have a government contract, they may be a subcontractor, but essentially in those government contracts, there are clauses that state you must have a certain level of compliance, you must uh, you must protect the data that you're receiving from the government when you receive it in your organization. And so the CMMC was created to ensure it's kind of like that um hammer. They were trusting that you were doing this, and now they have a hammer to come in and verify that you're doing this.
Yeah, that's excellent. I thought about as you're talking about, you know, with ISO, right? ISO. You just you just say you were doing it, right? Uh now they there can be some additional audits and things, but there's not as much uh to make sure that you are in fact doing what you are saying that you are um uh doing.
So the very very similar. I when I look at CMMC. And the compliance um and the you know, the regulatory compliance, it's very similar to a lot of those c compliance programs. And so one of the things that always sticks out to me when I'm start working with a company is if you are ISO compliant or ISO certified or AS ninety one hundred. Um, compliant or certified, registered. That's a good indicator that you understand what it means to not only document what you're doing, your policies and procedures, but that you actually do them.
Yeah, uh and that's that's yeah, that's so important. And I don't it when how long ago was this uh this new process uh introduced this new step.
So the rule for being com be having a compliance program and protecting the government data has been around since twenty seventeen. So it is not new. The cyber mature cybersecurity maturity model certification is newer that framework is newer. Um they put it went into final rule last November, um, which kind of rolls out how the government, and when I say the government, the contracting offices can put special requirements in the contract for it. But what I really like to emphasize This is not new. You should have been doing this since 20s. If you have access to what they call controlled unclassified information, C UI.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:25
2
What is CMMC and why was it created?
8:25–24:07
3
Why should Iowa manufacturers care about CMMC compliance?
24:07–29:53
4
What are the three CMMC certification levels and their requirements?
29:53–30:19
5
How much does CMMC certification realistically cost for manufacturers?
30:19–35:31