What 997 Responses Say About CMMC’s Future

This is something that I thought was worth talking about, but also somewhat tangential to what we're going to be talking about today.

And that is what happened late last week, which is...

This small attack on finance to the tune of six point three billion.

I was reading this morning, in fact, and I'm sure most of you have read or heard about this.

But boy, you know, one of the things we talk about all the time, you know, is.

I'll just frame this to maybe Scott Edwards.

Scott, as an MSP, we're always trying to have the customer understand potential implications of risk in their business and what it means to the business, not get the technical jargon out.

Just to give you a sense of the magnitude, they've had north of $3 billion in withdrawals Post this compromise.

And the other thing I thought was, again, kind of using this as a segue into today's conversation is it turns out it's it appears to be, you know, they're saying a North Korean threat actor and.

What we're going to be talking about today is, you know, protecting, you know, our nation's intellectual property for the Department of War.

And, you know, obviously the program of CMMC and protecting, obviously, very critical information from threat actors.

And here we have, you know, just an example of that.

you know seemingly something where a devops person you know did something to let a threat actor in and oh by the way 6.3 billion dollars later um but but your take on this is as it maybe relates tangentially

Well, I mean, $6.3 billion will certainly send up the average cost of an incident, I think.

So I think that we're going to see that number pop a little bit.

But it's this kind of thing.

We've seen numerous reports just in the last few weeks.

Lumen report just came out that identified, you know, who are the top targeted entities or types of organizations with the U.S. government being number one, you know, the Dib being number two.

You've got universities involved in research number three and MSPs being number four.

Right.

Then you've got the things that happened in France with the with the the refrigerators getting turned up to 120 degrees.

The same exact attack just happened in Belgium.

I believe I just read an article this weekend that a very similar attack happened in a U.S. military facility as well, where they spoiled food in a defect, you know, a dining facility.

And so, you know, we're seeing these types of attacks across the board, you know.

If it's crypto or if it's OT type environments or if it's, you know, IT environments, it's just all across the board.