Interview with Matt Stern: CMMC Accelerate 2026 Recap

From Visibility to Velocity: Building a Security Snowball

The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) faces a critical challenge: protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) on mobile devices without disrupting productivity or violating employee privacy. This interview with Matt Stern at CMMC Accelerate 2026 explores how organizations are moving beyond traditional Mobile Device Management (MDM) to achieve rapid compliance wins.

By adopting virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI), contractors are building a solid foundation that delivers intelligence and action for all projects forward: total personal privacy, reduced hardware costs, and out-of-scope edge devices. Each win makes the security posture better and the next contract easier to secure.

The discussion covers first-principles engineering for building secure mobility at scale, the order of operations that build momentum toward CMMC Level 2, the winning metrics for BYOD adoption, and the gotchas that are making the next projects easier and quicker to implement: from navigating FedRAMP High requirements to eliminating data-at-rest exposures.