ILC Dover Shows Cyber Compliance Claims Need Evidence
A cybersecurity compliance claim is only as strong as the evidence you can produce when someone challenges it, and the government has just put a $13 million price on the...
CMMC
Kiteworks Secure Editing: Three Options for Sensitive Data Protection
Picture opposing counsel redlining your contract, a supplier changing your CAD model, or an M&A advisor reworking your deal spreadsheet, with no way to download, copy, or take the data with them. No copy on...
Securing Every Channel Separately Guarantees Defence Has Missed One
A typical contractor runs one vendor for email security, another for file sharing, a third for MFT, a fourth for forms. Each secures its own channel reasonably well. None knows...
Building an Audit Trail That Holds Up for Defence
A contractor can usually produce an access log when an assessor asks. Far fewer can answer a harder question: could someone with administrative access have quietly edited that log before...
How to Select CMMC Compliance Software
Selecting CMMC compliance software solutions in 2026 begins with aligning tools to your contract scope, data sensitivity, and audit pathway. The “best” platforms combine robust control mapping, automated evidence collection,...
How to Evaluate CMMC-Compliant Cloud Security Vendors
Defense contractors and regulated teams still face a demanding compliance mandate: third-party C3PAO certification, which was scheduled to become a contract eligibility requirement for new CUI work on November 10,...
Defence Compliance Teams Deserve One Shared Record
Risk, compliance and programme security teams at most defence contractors each work from their own systems: a risk register, a policy configuration, a separate audit log export. Each team can...
What Fragmented GRC Costs Manufacturers
Risk, compliance and IT security teams at most manufacturers each work from their own systems: a risk register, a policy configuration, a separate audit log export. Each team can answer...
Why Software Choice Matters for CMMC Compliance Now
For defense contractors and their supply chains, 2026 is the year CMMC software choices directly determine contract eligibility. Third-party C3PAO certification, which was scheduled to become mandatory for CUI contracts...
What Defence Supply Chains Can’t Yet Show a Regulator
Defence supply chains supporting critical national infrastructure increasingly face both physical resilience obligations and cybersecurity requirements at once. An operator significant enough to be designated critical infrastructure is, in many...
What Defence Systems Owe Their AI Agents in Oversight
A new engineer on a defence programme does not get access to every controlled file on day one. They get access scoped to their clearance and role, oversight from a...
AI Agent Identity Gaps Are Now an Audit Problem
Roughly four in five enterprises now run AI agents in production, and fewer than half say they are prepared to answer an auditor who asks what those agents were allowed...
What Critical Third-Party Status Doesn’t Change for Prime Contractors
DORA‘s critical third-party oversight regime applies specifically to financial entities and the ICT providers designated as critical to that sector. Defence primes and their contractors are not directly in scope....
How Fragmented Governance Puts Controlled Data at Risk
Most defence contractors do not have one data governance policy. They have several: one for programme systems, another for email, a different one again for file sharing, and often no...
What CUI Protection Actually Requires From Key Custody
Every platform vendor serving defence contractors says CUI is encrypted. That claim hides the detail that actually determines protection: who holds the key. If the vendor holds it, encryption protects...