Cybersecurity, DNS (Domain Name System), and your company are interconnected topics in the field of network security. Protecting a company’s cybersecurity, including its DNS infrastructure, is of utmost importance in today’s digital landscape. DNS is responsible for translating user-friendly domain names into machine-readable IP addresses, allowing devices to communicate with each other over the internet.

Validating the security of your organization’s sensitive information at a single point in time with an annual risk assessment can be helpful, but what about the other 364 days of the year? If you have a cloud application and hope to sell your services to federal agencies, point-in-time assessments won’t be enough.

Cloud application, platform, and infrastructure vendors (cloud service providers, or CSPs) do a great job of advertising online. They offer seemingly painless ways to sign up for their services through “freemiums” and two-week trials, advertisements that follow you from Google to LinkedIn, and what appear to be straight-forward sales processes.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 is a compliance requirement that all Department of Defense (DoD) Contractors (aka, the Defense Industrial Base) will soon have to meet. See my blog Why is CMMC a Big Deal? for more information about the legal implications of CMMC. The CMMC official mandate is expected to be released from rulemaking in the first quarter of 2024 and be in full implementation in the first quarter of 2026.