We’re actively building out our program by developing resources for both partners and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies to leverage in their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) journey.

In a recent blog, Richard Wakeman, senior director of Aerospace & Defense for Microsoft Azure Global, shares current resources to help you get started and accelerate your CMMC journey. While these tools cannot guarantee a positive CMMC adjudication, they may assist candidate organizations by improving their CMMC posture going into a formal CMMC review in accordance with CMMC Accreditation Body (AB) standards.

Read more in Microsoft CMMC acceleration program update – October2020 which covers:

• Microsoft Compliance Manager with assessment templates
• Azure Security Center with Azure Blueprints
• Compliance Manager and Azure Security Center
• Zero Trust architecture with Azure Blueprints

For more on CMMC, check out these blogs:

• Accelerating CMMC compliance for Microsoft cloud (in depth review)
• 10-part CMMC with Azure blog series:

1. 1. Access Control Maturity
   2. Audit & Accountability Maturity
   3. Asset & Configuration Management Maturity
   4. Identification & Authentication Maturity
   5. Incident Response Maturity
   6. Maintenance & Media Protection Maturity
   7. Recovery & Risk Management Maturity
   8. Security Assessment & Situational Awareness Maturity
   9. System & Communications Protection Maturity
   10. System & Information Integrity Maturity