Carter Schoenberg is the Vice President of Cybersecurity at SoundWay Consulting, Inc. a Registered Provider Organization (RPO) and Certified Third Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO) candidate. Mr. Schoenberg is a Certified Information System Security Professional and Registered Practitioner (RP) with the CMMC. Recently completing training for the Certified CMMC Professional (CCP), he awaits his exam in 2022. He has over 28 years of combined experience in criminal investigations, cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity, cyber risk management, and cyber law. His past works include comprehensive assessments of U.S. Government Contractors to align with what are now formal requirements set forth by the Defense Department including NIST SP 800-171 and now the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
Mr. Schoenberg has performed over 25 independent conformance assessments of small and medium size businesses pertaining to CMMC v1.2 and NIST 800-171. He has also been involved with over 30 Authorizations to Operate (ATO) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His expertise was featured at MITRE’s quarterly Cyber Supply Chain Risk Forum at the request of DOD and DHS.
Mr. Schoenberg actively contributed to the GSA/DoD Final Report to the White House “Improving Cybersecurity and Resiliency through Acquisition”. His work products have been actively used by DOD, Department of Education, DHS, the ISAC communities, Smart Cities, and the Georgia Bar Association for Continuing Learning Educational (CLE) credits on the topic of cybersecurity risk and liability. Mr. Schoenberg also recently co-authored “Guidance for Smart Cities and Municipalities Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM)” published by NIST.