Multiple members of the CMMC Accreditation Body’s board of directors also serve as consultants in the cybersecurity sector, which critics say gives them an unfair advantage to profit from the program. A recent survey reports that contractors of various sizes are worried about whether they will be treated fairly, for a variety of reasons.
For example, Leslie Weinstein, a consultant in the CMMC space, complained about an article in which encryption provider PreVeil interviewed CMMC-AB board member Regan Edens, the founder of DTC Global, a company he started in 2019 as the CMMC was emerging. “This article is wrong on so many levels because a CMMC-AB board member is trying to sell his own services and the product of a partner on the guise of his expertise as an AB board member,” Weinstein remarked.
The CMMC-AB says it is working to address conflict-of-interest issues to allow fair competition within the defense industrial base and among companies that want to advise them on meeting program requirements.
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