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title: Cybersecurity Working Group | CNMI
description: CNMI's Cybersecurity working group is led by Gene Russell. The group strives to provide awareness to the Cybersecurity risks for small-sized manufacturers.
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## Cybersecurity

### Group Lead: Gene Russell – Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence (Manex) Contact Information; [grussell@manexconsulting.com](mailto:grussell@manexconsulting.com)

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### Objectives

1. Provide awareness to the Cybersecurity risks for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers (SMMs)
2. Connect SMMs with service providers to assess Cybersecurity risk, conformance to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and DoD, GSA and NASA requirements
3. Match SMMs with service provider to address Cybersecurity assessment gaps

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