Preston Smith
Security Control Assessor at Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute, The University of Tulsa
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Smith has more than two decades of experience spanning technical operations and information assurance, including enterprise IT, healthcare data privacy, and security work for defense contractors. In defense-related work, Smith applied the Risk Management Framework and addressed NIST 800-53 and DFARS 800-171 requirements. Smith earned a computer science degree from the University of Arkansas.
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OCT
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THU
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FRI
Opening remarks by Jim Bridenstine, CEO of Quantum Space, former Administrator of NASA, and former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. Stacy Bostjanick, Vice President of Government Services Strategy at Cybersec Investments and former Chief Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity official, delivers the keynote, “State of the Ecosystem,” addressing CMMC enforcement, certification bottlenecks, workforce constraints, and the future of the Defense Industrial Base. The program includes “The Prime Perspective”; “The CMMC Journey,” moderated by Michael Turner with Anders Erickson, Brandon Szych-Brown, Don Ackerman, and Scott Bernoudy; and “C3PAO AAA (Ask Assessors Anything),” moderated by Preston Smith with Katie Dodson, Kevin Mann, Kyle Lai, and Mark Debry. Additional sessions cover CUI identification, cybersecurity governance, the CMMC Phase 2 pause, NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3, CUI scoping and data flow, assessor selection, shared responsibility between organizations and MSPs, and preparing environments, documentation, evidence, and personnel for Level 2 assessments. Hands-on workshops address the 320 CMMC controls and related organizational decisions, stakeholder alignment and scoping risks, agentic AI for documentation and System Security Plan creation, NIST assessment objectives, evidence collection, access control, incident response, and practical CMMC implementation.