--- title: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? What DoD’s CMMC Pause... description: The DoD's decision to pause CMMC Phase II — which would have required independent third-party assessments for contractors handling Controlled Unclassified... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-what-dod-s-cmmc-pause-gets-wrong-about-trust-1bahzhqb1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? What DoD’s CMMC Pause Gets Wrong About Trust | daily.dev og:description: The DoD's decision to pause CMMC Phase II — which would have required independent third-party assessments for contractors handling Controlled Unclassified... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-what-dod-s-cmmc-pause-gets-wrong-about-trust-1bahzhqb1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1bAhzHqB1.png og:image:alt: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? What DoD’s CMMC Pause Gets Wrong About Trust og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? What DoD’s CMMC Pause Gets Wrong About Trust **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The DoD's decision to pause CMMC Phase II — which would have required independent third-party assessments for contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information — is critiqued as trading real security for the illusion of efficiency. While the cost burden on small DIB suppliers is acknowledged as legitimate, the author argues that self-attestation without independent verification is a well-documented failure mode, drawing parallels to Medicare/Medicaid fraud enabled by the same honor-system dynamic. The piece calls for smarter, risk-tiered verification models rather than simply removing oversight, noting that zero trust architecture's continuous validation principle still requires independent checking to be meaningful. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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