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Register now for our upcoming free webinar CMMC Roll-Out: When Do I Need to Comply? and learn all you need to know about Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements and how they will affect you and your company. The three-year-long phased rollout of the CMMC requirements is intended to minimize both the financial impacts to the industrial base, especially small entities, and disruption to the existing DOD supply chain. By the end of the three-year rollout, the DOD estimates 35% of contractors that handle sensitive data will need to obtain a level two CMMC third-party certification. Meanwhile, approximately 65% of applicable contracts will require a level one self-assessment.
Join Robert McVay, a senior consultant for information security services in Smithers Quality Assessments Division, as he presents the upcoming rollout, compliance deadlines, and the steps you need to implement to stay ahead of all this entails.
Speaker Highlight

Robert McVay
Senior Consultant for Information Security Services
Smithers Quality Assessments Division
Robert McVay, CISO, CISSP, is the cybersecurity expert heading Smithers Information Security Services.
Robert served in the U.S. Army for thirty years. During his military career Robert served at all levels of the Army and was the project manager for two different billion-dollar programs. Robert served as the first Chief Information Security Officer as well as Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cyberspace Management and Integration at the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. He also was the principal architect and then project manager for the U.S. Army’s most aggressive ERP deployment, which ultimately managed all personnel and payroll actions for more than 1.1 million U.S. Army service members. He then deployed to Afghanistan to build a similar system for the Afghan National Defense Forces.
After retiring with distinction, Robert became a managing partner at Optimus Partners. The company specializes in providing strategy and technology consulting to senior and C-suite level executives for international and global firms.
Robert has been with Smithers for two years and is the prime force behind the launch of the new Information Security Services of the Quality Assessments Division.
Can’t attend the day of the event? No problem. Each registered attendee will also receive a link to the recording. This content will be sent approximately 5 business days after the event.
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