The Insight Blog

The year 2025 marked a turning point for many public-sector organizations, defense contractors, and highly regulated enterprises. The acceleration of cloud adoption, the rise of AI-enabled threats, and the growing consequences of misconfigurations and outages forced agencies to rethink not only how they operate, but how they prepare for the unexpected. Cybersecurity moved from background infrastructure to strategic capability, directly shaping operations, compliance, and miss

On November 10, 2025, a quiet but transformative shift took place across the U.S. defense sector. The Department of Defense officially began enforcing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Final Acquisition Rule , ending years of speculation and preparation. For the first time, cybersecurity compliance is not just a recommendation or a future goal, it’s a contractual obligation . This milestone comes at a time when the defense industry is still adapting to a