As a supplier for the defense and intelligence communities, Nautilus Cables needs to address requirements such as DFARS 7012 — an important clause about how DoD contractors and subcontractors must approach safeguarding covered defense information and cyber incident reporting by meeting the 110 security controls identified in NIST Special Publication 800-171.

The company had general policies in place, but they were not designed with NIST 800-171 requirements in mind. Read about their experience in choosing Exostar PolicyPro — a cloud-based, AI-powered policy generation tool to build and score policies and procedures required by NIST 800-171, mandated by DFARS 7012 and the forthcoming Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0.