On October 6, 2026, GovRAMP announced that three more third-party assessment organizations (3PAOs), Insight Assurance among them, have joined the GovRAMP 3PAO Discount Program. Participation now stands at 17 assessment
Plenty of contractors have submitted a score to the Supplier Performance Risk System without ever walking through how that number actually gets built. That’s not unusual, and it’s not necessarily a problem on its
ISO published an updated version of ISO 27701 in October 2025, and the change is bigger than a routine revision. The standard is now a standalone certification. Previously, an organization
DIBCAC comes up constantly in conversations about CMMC and DFARS 7012 enforcement, usually as a name attached to a warning: a DIBCAC review found a mismatch, a DIBCAC review triggered a False
An RPO engagement produces a lot in a short window: a gap analysis, a System Security Plan, a Plan of Action and Milestones, a pre-assessment readiness review. What gets asked
When CMMC Phase II certification paused, a lot of defense contractors understandably read that as license to pause their compliance work too. That’s a reasonable reaction to a confusing announcement, but it misreads
Defense contractors are running out of runway on compliance deadlines that are no longer theoretical. CMMC requirements are landing on real timelines. Enterprise and government buyers want certification evidence before
Cloud service providers (CSPs) pursuing federal customers need more than internal security claims; they need independent assessment evidence that federal agencies can review as part of the authorization process. A
Most vendor relationships get re-evaluated somewhere along the way: a contract renewal triggers a review, a budget cycle prompts a comparison, someone asks whether you’re still getting what you’re paying for. PCI DSS QSA relationships often don’t get
The PCI DSS conversation almost everyone has before signing is about the assessment itself: scoping, evidence, sampling, the ROC or SAQ. The conversation almost nobody has ahead of time is
At some point in your PCI DSS assessment, your QSA is going to tell you they didn’t test everything, and that’s normal. No assessment tests every system, document, or physical location in your environment.
Somewhere in your PCI DSS vendor research, you’ve probably assumed a QSA is a QSA, one credential, one standard of rigor, interchangeable between firms. It’s an understandable assumption, and it’s not quite right. PCI SSC recognizes two
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