Ariento's Chief Engineer Selected for CMMC Provisional Assessor Program
LOS ANGELES, August 28, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Andrew Ro, Chief Engineer at Ariento Inc., was selected this week to participate in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Provisional Assessor Training Program. The program is put on by the CMMC Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB) and will start next week.
Seventy-two (72) qualified assessor candidates were selected to be “Provisional Assessors” out of more than 500 qualified applicants. Each will be authorized to conduct assessments during the provisional period which is expected to last until January 2021.
Provisional Assessors had to meet elevated criteria and experience requirements, and will be required to provide feedback and retrospective information with the CMMC-AB following each assessment.
CMMC is a new cyber compliance standard put out by the Department of Defense (DoD) and expected to take effect later this year. The CMMC-AB has been working with the DoD and hundreds of members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to deploy a CMMC assessment ecosystem that will enhance the security our nation's supply chain. As an assessor, Andrew will be trained and authorized to conduct CMMC Provisional assessments.
Andrew Ro is the Chief Engineer and Director of Research and Development (R&D) at Ariento Inc., a leading information technology (IT), cybersecurity and compliance service provider located in California, Virginia and Colorado. A senior engineer with 15+ years of experience in information security across the commercial, civil and defense industries, Andrew’s diverse background includes the successful support of information system migrations & mergers between major corporations, and the development of cyber focused mission threads for space-based operations. He has conducted security audits of government network & system infrastructures and recommended corrective actions for critical national security infrastructure. Prior to Ariento, Andrew spent three years as a cybersecurity engineer for Booz Allen Hamilton and served six years in the Army Signal Corps. His overseas deployments include a year in Afghanistan as an engineer supporting Generals David Petraeus and John R. Allen at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Headquarters.
Ariento provides cybersecurity, IT, and compliance services to small and mid-sized organizations. Comprised of a veteran team boasting decades of experience at the highest levels of the United States military and federal government, Ariento specializes in delivering best-in-class technology solutions that are secure and regulatory compliant. From consulting to fully outsourced IT services and more, Ariento gives business owners and executives one less thing to worry about in today's interconnected digital world.
For more information about Ariento, please visit www.Ariento.com.
To learn more about the CMMC Provisional Assessor Program, please visit https://www.cmmcab.org/provisional-assessor-lp.
Source: Ariento Inc .
