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(Quote from John Weiler added) The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Center of Excellence ( CMMC COE ), hosted by the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC), a public-private partnership serving the public and private sectors for more than 15 years, is excited to announce a partnership with Churchill & Harriman (C&H) a recognized and proven leader in enterprise risk management consulting and in the scoping through execution of global third-party vendor risk assessments.
This unique partnership will extend efforts to identify and include proven capabilities within the CMMC COE Marketplace to improve cybersecurity protection and resilience for the global defense industrial base network of contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers. Ken Peterson, Churchill & Harriman’s CEO stated, “for twenty years we have been privileged to execute for and collaborate with the DIB and our nation’s national security apparatus. Aligning with the CMMC-COE is an important and exciting step for C&H as all of us in the community focus on the long-term security of our country.”
“We are excited to embark on this journey with Churchill and Harriman”, said John Weiler, Chairman of the Board at CMMC Center of Excellence. “This new partnership will further advance the goals and objectives for improving the supply chain security and resilience for the US Department of Defense (DoD)”.
The executed Engagement Agreement establishes a collaborative engagement between Churchill & Harriman and the CMMC COE to partner in the furthering of the adoption, use, and expansion of CMMC based cybersecurity practices, risk management, and compliance for the DIB contractor, vendor, and supplier community of providers creating a broader CMMC ecosystem globally to improve security and resilience. Certification is intended to ensure that the DoD partners adhere to its cyber protection standards to safeguard Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) stored on contractors’ networks.
Specific actions will include:
- The co-development of CMMC advisory services, cyber training and education programs to accelerate CMMC certification, increase cyber adoption and improve cyber protection & resilience.
- Co-sponsor symposiums, training programs and podcasts leveraging their combined cyber and IT expertise.
- Host regular working groups, with other partners, to enable collaboration and communications.
- Establish an independent Industry Cyber Security Advisory Council with peer organizations to advise and educate leaders across government and industry on the continued evolution and effectiveness of CMMC.
Churchill & Harriman has delivered global, high value risk management solutions to systemically important organizations and organizations that run critical infrastructure since 1997, serving a wide range of multinational clients, including Fortune 1000 corporations, DIB vendors, government agencies, regulators, ISACs and more, with a portfolio of offerings that includes C-Level advisory services, end-to-end business continuity & resilience, risk assessments employing the NIST CSF and NIST Standards, information security, compliance and much more.
The CMMC-COE (http://cmmc-coe.org ) and Churchill & Harriman partnership will focus on bringing together the many disparate cyber and national security communities of interest to reduce complexity, improve awareness, and accelerate industry effort to become more cyber resilient against the growing threats from nation states and criminal enterprises.
The CMMC-COE establishes both a Market Place and Knowledge Clearinghouse that will include resources that support the overall effort, including white papers, tutorials, recorded webcasts, presentations, and more that will help reduce the cost and burden on small and medium size contractors already struggling from the impact of COVID.
For more information on the CMMC Center of Excellence, please visit http://cmmc-coe.org,
or call 703-863-3766
For more information on Churchill & Harriman, please visit https://chus.com/ or call 609-921-3551.
About Us----------CMMC-COE.ORG is a unique non-profit public-private partnership, with a vision to accelerate Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CMM) adoption, and reduce time & cost for security compliance for our partners by leveraging commercial best practices, CMMC standards, and innovative solutions for a measurable success. Our mission, focused on DOD mission objectives, cost containment and expeditious CMMC compliance, is to help the DIB improve cyber posture and resilience, and simplify its acquisition.The CMMC-COE is hosted by the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC), a public/private partnership (P3) chartered in 2007 as an honest broker to reach outside the confines of the Federal IT advisories that lack dynamic reach into the Global IT Market, and dedicated to the adoption of commercial IT management standards of practice and innovations emanating from the Global IT market. Team IT-AAC has already demonstrated the value of its decade long investment, and provides a unique value to agencies seeking to achieve accelerate the transformation of legacy processes and systems. Our Just-in-Time SMEs apply an innovative suite of Technology Business Management and Agile Acquisition Processes needed to assure the business value of commercial IT.The Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH), is the managing partner that make up the 24 NGO/SDO organizations that make up the IT-AAC. ICH provides the contract vehicles, clearances, and critical resources proven to guide sustainable, measurable and repeatable processes needed to drive better investment decisions as the speed of mission need, while aligning existing processes, methods and workforce with IT reform mandates contained in Clinger Cohen Act, FITARA, IT MGT Act, EO13838.
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