"Our adversaries, our foreign adversaries definitely have been taking some of our most precious IP in this country," said Emil Sayegh. Interview transcript Terry Gerton You have a lot of background on a very important topic, CMMC. In fact, your company received quite a bit of attention last fall when you released a report that found only 1% of defense contractors said they felt ready for the CMMCs rules that were just then going into effect. We’re about six months later. How have you seen the situation change? Emil Sayegh There’s certainly a rush from certain contractors and subcontractors to essentially become CMMC compliant, get certified, get assessed, and so on and so forth. But what we’ve seen from before, for multiple years as CMMC was being talked about and planned, basically CMMC has moved from planning and PowerPoint and Excel sheets and word documents and project plans to actual implementation now and people are starting to take it much more seriously. So it’s moved basically from writing the policy to actually implementing those policies and not only implementing them, but also making sure that you have the proper evidence that those policies are implemented because when an assessor is gonna come in and audit you or even if you’re doing a self assessment and you’re publishing an SPRS score, there’s a threshold of evidence that you need to maintain. And that’s what needs to go into your self assessment, right? It can’t just be, “I think” or “we planned” or “it looks good” on an Excel document or a Word document. You have to be able to provide the evidence so that you can enter your SPRS score in the government system, the DOD system. So having said that, I think we’re seeing everything shift from planning to now