CMMC accreditation body spins off assessor training work into separate business unit

The accreditation body behind the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has formally started to spin off its work to certify assessors and build training with licensed providers into an independent business unit, as required by the organization’s no-cost contract signed in 2020 with the Defense Department.

“We have been spun off as a subsidiary within the Cyber AB and we are still working together from an operational perspective,” Melanie Kyle Gingrich, interim executive director of the new subsidiary and...