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Samara Moore

Author: Samara Moore

Samara Moore is a security assurance senior manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She leads the security and compliance program for regulated industries and public sector in the Americas region. Prior to joining AWS, Samara managed enterprise security programs for regulated and non-regulated environments for a major energy provider. She also managing security programs within the federal government for over 10 years, including as a former director of critical infrastructure cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council and senior cybersecurity advisor at the US Department of Energy.

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Building your Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) strategy using cloud technologies

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released an interim rule, the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements (DFARS Case 2019–D041), which includes NIST SP 800-171 and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessment methodology and requirements. Organizations have been planning for CMMC, and with the release of this interim rule, are now beginning to prepare and build strategy for CMMC compliance. Learn how you can build your CMMC strategy using cloud technologies.