{"id":32641,"date":"2025-09-06T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=32641"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:22:16","slug":"cmmc-cyberab-pays-1-4m-a-year-for-web-services-still-gets-502-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/cmmc-cyberab-pays-1-4m-a-year-for-web-services-still-gets-502-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"CMMC CyberAB Pays $1.4M a Year for Web Services, Still Gets 502 Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the scammy, possibly illegal stuff the CyberAB did to get their sole-source DoD contract and form their incestuous little organization was bad, you clearly have not read their public IRS tax filings. The earnings and expenses are eye-watering, mind-boggling, and other hyphen-worthy levels of horrible. Keep in mind, the CyberAB has still <em><strong>not yet accredited a single CMMC C3PAO<\/strong><\/em>, because the AB has still not obtained ISO 17011 accreditation for itself. So all the earnings and expenses to date are just for them <em><strong>cosplaying<\/strong> <\/em>as an AB, and not actually accrediting anything.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more on this shortly (maybe, it&#8217;s a bit boring and I am easily distracted), but take a look at these numbers just for website and IT services. According to the group&#8217;s 2023 tax return, they spent over\u00a0<em><strong>$1.4 million<\/strong><\/em> on these services.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarity Ventures (Website Support): $510,000<\/li>\n<li>Carahsoft (IT Solutions): $268,000<\/li>\n<li>Summit 7 (IT Solutions): $196,000<\/li>\n<li>Misc IT Expenses: $441,000<\/li>\n<li>TOTAL: $1,415,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots from the tax return, since you don&#8217;t believe me:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32642\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cyberabexpenses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32643\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cyberabexpenses2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what exactly has that $1.4 million earned them? Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the CyberAB&#8217;s website as of yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32645\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cyberaberror502b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>502 errors are server-side, so this means the problem was definitely caused by the CyberAB itself. Or at least one of their expensive IT service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yes, the CyberAB is paying Summit 7 in what is a total, inexcusable conflict of interest. Summit 7 and its resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/homeless-bum-santa-monica-california-image600469.html?imageid=84EE91C0-C79A-44F8-BF36-66E21BCD91D1&amp;pn=1&amp;searchId=988fcd4969f6095c6b448a330923a479&amp;searchtype=0\">cyberhobo Jacob Horne<\/a> sell CMMC services. So we are supposed to believe that a C3PAO auditor will thoroughly and objectively audit a client that uses Summit 7 products and procedures, and maybe write nonconformities against them, all while knowing their boss &#8212; the CyberAB &#8212; has a financial relationship with Summit 7. And we&#8217;re supposed to believe that the CyberAB will fairly adjudicate any complaints that might be related to Summit 7 while they pay them nearly $200 grand a year.<\/p>\n<p>CMMC is a grift, in case you weren&#8217;t putting the pieces together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberAB is cosplaying as an accreditation body, not doing accreditation work.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7774,5],"tags":[7679,8081,8348,8762,8378],"class_list":["post-32641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmmc","category-opinion","tag-cmmc","tag-cyberab","tag-jacob-horne","tag-summit-7","tag-summit7","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32648,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32641\/revisions\/32648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}