{"id":33898,"date":"2026-07-13T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=33898"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:23:39","slug":"actually-summit7-dummies-there-is-a-cmmc-appraiser-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/actually-summit7-dummies-there-is-a-cmmc-appraiser-bottleneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, Summit7 Dummies, There *IS* a CMMC Appraiser Bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[This article was written before the recent pause on third-party CMMC certification. Postscript added at end.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Summit7 scumbags have once again leaned into their <em>&#8220;let&#8217;s gaslight the planet in order to sell our CMMC snake oil&#8221;<\/em> strategy once again, in a toxic, smug, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e_1FztgNCHM\">cringeworthy video on YouTube<\/a>. This time, cyberhobo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/summit7s-jacob-horne-posted-he-could-doxx-a-us-veteran-for-criticizing-cmmc\/\">would-be doxxer<\/a> Jacob Horne joins wannabe used car salesman and pancake jockey Jason Sproesser to claim that anyone pointing out something really obvious must be, in their words, &#8220;<em>crazy<\/em>.&#8221; That obvious thing is that there are not enough CMMC assessors to carry out the assessments allegedly needed by the DoD.<\/p>\n<p>Now, keep in mind both Horne and Sproesser have been all over CMMCWorld with their hands up Katie Arrington&#8217;s skirt, insisting that the DIB is a collection of criminals and scammers and that only CMMC will save us from their fraud. It&#8217;s not at all clear why Summit7 thinks anyone would hire them to do anything, since they accuse their entire possible customer base of crimes before they ever meet them.<\/p>\n<p>They really seem to lean in on the fact that anyone who disagrees with them must suffer from some mental illness. I can only assume that the mental illness they speak of is &#8220;<em>a<\/em> <em>healthy skepticism of grift.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Numbers Behind CMMC Assessment Capacity\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_1FztgNCHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Says Sproesser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, and it&#8217;s crazy to think about it that when you actually take any look at the statistic statistics and you look at the numbers associated with it, you see how I don&#8217;t want to say impressive, but you see the progress that has been made, and it doesn&#8217;t match the argument that&#8217;s coming from the same five knuckleheads within the ecosystem that seem to think that we don&#8217;t have enough assessors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You have to go see how he says it, too, with a mocking tone and smug-as-fuck attitude.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>POSTSCRIPT:<\/strong> Now as we see the CMMC third-party assessment portion of the program has been tabled for now, Summit7 couldn&#8217;t run to YouTube fast enough to say more stupid things. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TfdwAc5tdMA\">newer video,<\/a> the Horne and Sproesser insist that by removing the C3PAO aspect of CMMC, &#8220;contractor liability just went UP!&#8221; Alright, let&#8217;s follow that thought: if so, then does that mean C3PAO&#8217;s held the liability before the suspension of third-party audits?<\/p>\n<p>I think we all know that&#8217;s not true. The C3PAOs would do exactly as their ISO certification body counterparts have done for forty years, and claim that audits are a &#8220;snapshot in time&#8221; and not a reflection of daily reality, and so they have no liability whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>There is no level of misanthropic, panic-inducing, nutjobbery the Summit7 and CMMC shills will not engage in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Horne and Jason Sproesser wanted to remind you that they are kinda dicks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34120,"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":[7679,8348,8910,8378],"class_list":["post-33898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmmc","category-opinion","tag-cmmc","tag-jacob-horne","tag-jason-sproesser","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\/33898","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=33898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34122,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898\/revisions\/34122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}