1、2024 EDITIONDIB CYBERSECURITYMATURITY REPORTA WORD FROM OUR CEOTheres a lot of innovation to be found in the small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)serving our Defense Industrial Base(DIB)and U.S.Critical Infrastructure(CI)today.Their inventions,ideas,and technologies support the advanced defense sy
2、stems that are keeping our nation safe both domestically and around the world.But whos keeping these vital SMBs safe?Nation states around the world eye these SMBs as easy targets through which to steal confidential data and national secrets.Companies who achieve their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Ce
3、rtification(CMMC)compliance will undoubtedly become a harder target but thats only the beginning.The way to protect against these cyber attacks is to establish a reasonable security baseline with CMMC,then go further with a harden-detect-respond mindset and tireless operations to shrink the attack s
4、urface,constantly monitor for threats,and be ready to investigate and respond around the clock.But are SMBs today actively taking these steps?To better understand how SMBs protect themselves,we surveyed 581 IT practitioners at companies with 101 to 250 employees,and for whom a significant portion of
5、 their business comes from defense contracts with government agencies.They shared their insights into their current state of cybersecurity,their biggest security challenges,their experience working with outsourced service providers,and where they currently stand on their CMMC compliance.To help ensu
6、re actionable results,we omitted all data from respondents that expressed low confidence in their answers,leaving us with 423 total responses in our results.We hope these findings will help you understand where the industry currently stands on security,and help benchmark your efforts against your pe