{"id":994381,"date":"2026-02-23T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994381"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:18:12","slug":"americas-new-cybersecurity-rules-for-defence-industry-do-not-go-well-with-small-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/23\/americas-new-cybersecurity-rules-for-defence-industry-do-not-go-well-with-small-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s new cybersecurity rules for defence industry do not go well with small suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small suppliers in the US defence sector are reportedly reconsidering their involvement in military contracts. According to a Reuters report, this is due to new federal cybersecurity rules that have raised compliance costs, potentially disrupting production and supply chains. This follows the implementation of the US Defence Department\u2019s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), which began in November 2025 to protect sensitive, classified, and unclassified information. The new rules are being implemented at a time when the Trump administration is encouraging defence suppliers to increase production and broaden their supplier base.<\/p>\n<p>What is the US Department of Defence\u2019s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small suppliers in the US defence sector are reportedly reconsidering their involvement in military contracts. According to a Reuters report, this is due to new federal cybersecurity rules that have raised compliance costs, potentially disrupting production and supply chains. This follows the implementation of the US Defence Department\u2019s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), which began in November 2025 to protect sensitive, classified, and unclassified information. The new rules are being implemented at a time when the Trump administration is encouraging defence suppliers to increase production and broaden their supplier base. What is the US Department of Defence\u2019s Cybersecurity Maturity Model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}