409- Permission to Play w/Nathan Kaufman
Nathan Kaufman built CMMC compliance from scratch at a defense contractor with SSH open to the internet and no Active Directory. Then he learned the hard way that technical wins mean nothing if you can't communicate your value. Nathan Kaufman walked into a $100 million defense contractor with 80 employees, zero IT infrastructure, and two years to become CMMC Level 2 compliant or lose all DoD contracts. No Active Directory. SSH open to the internet. Engineers buying equipment with personal credit cards. A flat network running on unpatched switches. He built it all from the ground up. Deployed…
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