In January 2020, Department of Defense (DoD) released their unified security standard: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. All DoD contractors and subcontractors throughout the supply chain need to be compliant and maintain a certain level of cybersecurity maturity if they want to do business with the DoD. Under the CMMC, contractors will be assessed on their implementation of required cybersecurity controls, technical practices, and processes against a maturity scale.