Scott Singer and Todd Streicher, two guys who have been best friends since their sophomore year in high school, have joined together to do something about this. Scott is a retired Navy Captain with nearly 30 years of experience in IT, cyber security, and DoD contracting. Todd is the founder of 5Nines (derived from the IT goal of having 99.999% uptime), a Madison, WI based managed service provider, MSP, with a client list that includes the city of Madison and the state of Wisconsin. Scott and Todd both recognized that small and midsize businesses were going to need help navigating this complex requirement, and that their backgrounds and expertise were the perfect combination for success.
Together they joined to form CyberNINES, a cybersecurity consulting firm specializing in helping DoD contractors gain compliance with the DFARS cyber security requirements. They call their service “Compliance without complexity®” and, within a year, have begun guiding over 50 clients in Wisconsin and Minnesota on their journey towards compliance. They advise their clients that this could take somewhere between one and three years to achieve compliance, so now is the time to start. They have already exceeded their forecasted revenue projections for 2021.
Thanks to their success, and Scott’s efforts to become a recognized thought leader on this subject, Scott was invited to testify to the Congressional subcommittee on Small Business about the cost and implications to small businesses to become compliant. His testimony prompted several good questions about understanding how this will affect small businesses, how soon they will be assessed (there are over 300,000 DoD contractors who must be compliant), and ongoing costs.
Another measure of their success is their goal to expand into California and bring their experience and expertise to our small businesses here. They turn ..
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