The third-party board implementing the Department of Defense‘s new cybersecurity standards for contractors finally has a CEO after months of searching.
Matthew Travis, a former deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has been tapped to lead the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB) — the organization tasked with overseeing the ecosystem of assessors who will inspect the IT networks of the 300,000 companies in the defense industrial base.
Travis will lead day-to-day operations of the CMMC-AB, a job that has largely been filled by the AB’s board of directors in the nearly 15 months since it was incorporated.
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