Pentagon small business office plans pilot with companies on protecting controlled unclassified information

The Pentagon Office of Small Business Programs will launch a pilot with 25 to 50 companies to explore how to help smaller organizations comply with NIST Special Publication 800-171 using a cloud environment provided by the Defense Department, according to CMMC leader Stacy Bostjanick.

The environment would have tools “built on top of it,” Bostjanick told Inside Cybersecurity. “For those that would participate in an environment like that, their CMMC certification would just be a validation that they implemented it...