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Last week, our CEO Andy Sauer joined Eric Crusius on Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP's Regulatory Phishing podcast. They discussed the future of CMMC and what the United States Department of War CIO's recent announcement about the program could mean. The statement raises real questions about where CMMC goes next and how contractors should plan around it, so this episode is timely and full of hot takes you'll need to hear. Listen to the full episode. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecqF9ffb #CMMC #DefenseIndustrialBase #Cybersecurity #GovCon #CyberCompliance

The rules just changed. Now we adapt. CMMC Phase 2 is suspended. The United States Department of War handed a reform task force 60 days to figure out what comes next. Phase 1 obligations did not move. DFARS 7012 is still active. 800-171 self-assessment is still required. That part is simple. What is not simple is the question every MSP will hear this week. A client calls. They want to pause the project. What do you tell them? Tomorrow at 3:15pm EST, join a special CyberCall hosted by Andrew Morgan, and built for exactly this moment. Andy Sauer sits down with Jacob Horne, Ryan B., and Scott Singer, CAPT USN (Ret), leading voices who have watched this program evolve since its earliest days. This will be a compelling conversation about what this suspension signals and what it does not. What would you tell a client asking to pause right now? 👉 Tune in tomorrow! ttps://https://lnkd.in/evMMkMzE #CMMC #CyberCall #DIB #MSP #Compliance

Most people don't think about cybersecurity compliance and machine shops in the same sentence. But that's exactly the world of Level 1 Fasteners: a specialty manufacturer and Navy contractor with over sixty years in the business. Their shop floor runs legacy equipment, shared workstations, and at least one machine that predates the Cold War. When CMMC landed on their plate, most MSPs and consultants had no idea what to do with a manufacturing environment. Level 1 needed a partner who understood their world. Sentinel Blue did. The result: a migration to GCC High, a fully managed SOC, a real plan for printed CUI on a busy shop floor, and a CMMC Level 2 certification in three months. 🔗https://lnkd.in/e5BWhdyV #CMMC #DefenseManufacturing #Cybersecurity #DIB

Episode 46 of The Watchers is live! Timothy Van Name spent years inside NSA and the White House at the center of some of the most significant cyber compromises to hit the US government (the kind that would keep even the most seasoned cyber professional up at night). Now he is in the private sector and is not holding back. This conversation goes deep on what modern conflict actually looks like, why time is the domain nobody in defense is talking about, how AI is tilting the field toward attackers, and why the way we assign cybersecurity responsibility is fundamentally broken. Worth your time! https://lnkd.in/eQBKMwpY #CyberSecurity #AI #NationalSecurity #TheWatchersPodcast #SentinelBlue

Episode 46 of The Watchers is live! Timothy Van Name spent years inside NSA and the White House at the center of some of the most significant cyber compromises to hit the US government (the kind that would keep even the most seasoned cyber professional up at night). Now he is in the private sector and is not holding back. This conversation goes deep on what modern conflict actually looks like, why time is the domain nobody in defense is talking about, how AI is tilting the field toward attackers, and why the way we assign cybersecurity responsibility is fundamentally broken. Worth your time! https://lnkd.in/eQBKMwpY #CyberSecurity #AI #NationalSecurity #TheWatchersPodcast #SentinelBlue

The DoW is making massive IT investments right now. The cybersecurity spend to match? Not so much. New systems mean new attack surface. If security spend does not scale with technology spend, we are not modernizing. We are just expanding what adversaries can target. As practitioners we have pushed too much of the burden onto end users who were never equipped to carry it. We do not have a capacity problem. We have an incentive problem. New The Watchers episode dropping tomorrow! https://lnkd.in/eCnz9t-r #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CISO #CyberRisk #DefenseIndustrial #TheWatchersPodcast #SentinelBlue

Two hundred fifty years ago, a nation was founded on principles worth protecting. Today, we honor every generation that has served to defend them, and we look ahead with hope that those principles will keep guiding us forward. From all of us at Sentinel Blue to you and yours, we wish you a happy, healthy, and safe Fourth of July.

Most breach stories blame a missing control. But increasingly, the real story is decay: environments that quietly drifted away from security they once had. This is exactly what NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 is built to catch, and it's why the highest risk contractors right now aren't the ones ignoring cybersecurity. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eaUzq8Tx #CMMC #NIST80171 #DIB #CyberSecurity #Compliance

📍Sentinel Blue is headed to Huntsville! We're looking forward to catching up with the missile defense community at Innovate Tech Forum 2026. Come talk with us about where you are in your CMMC journey, whether GCC High is the right move, or what "compliant" actually means for your primes or subs. We're also happy to get deep in the weeds on SOC monitoring and incident response, insider threat detection, or how AI risk fits into a CUI environment. Drop a comment/send us a message if you'd like to grab time while we're there. 💙 2026 NDIA/WID Innovate Tech Forum: (https://hubs.la/Q04ncW960) #InnovateTechForum2026 #WomenInDefense #NDIA #CMMC #GCCHigh #SentinelBlue

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