Vulnerability Management Under CMMC: Patching Cadence, Scanning Frequency, and What Assessors Expect
A prime contractor’s compliance lead once told us their vulnerability management program consisted of a monthly Nessus report that landed […]
Media Protection Under CMMC: Sanitizing Hard Drives, USB Drives, and Printers Before They Leave the Building
There is a category of CMMC compliance failure that doesn’t involve a network breach, a compromised credential, or a misconfigured
External Service Providers Under CMMC: What Counts as an ESP and What That Means for Your MSP
A defense contractor going through readiness prep almost always asks the same question at some point: does our IT company
Employee Offboarding Under CMMC: Why Access Revocation Timing Is a Scored Control
A former subcontractor employee’s Office 365 account sat active for eleven days after his last shift. Nobody used it maliciously.
Physical Security Under CMMC: Protecting CUI When the Threat Isn’t Digital
A contractor spends eighteen months hardening firewalls, deploying endpoint detection, and rewriting incident response plans, then fails a Level 2
The Five CMMC Asset Categories: How Scoping Actually Sorts Your Environment
A defense contractor calls us with a network diagram that looks reasonable on paper — a flat topology, one domain,
Audit Logging Under CMMC: What AU.L2 Requires and How Long You Actually Have to Keep Logs
Ask five compliance leads at defense contractors how long they need to retain audit logs, and you’ll get five different
Configuration Management Under CMMC: Why “It Works” Isn’t the Same as a Documented Baseline
A network engineer at a manufacturing subcontractor once told us his configuration management program was “in his head, and it’s
How Winning More DoD Contracts Starts With a Stronger Cybersecurity Posture – Not Just a Lower Bid
A contracting officer doesn’t reject a proposal because the price was too high. Most of the time, they never get
The Complete CUI Lifecycle: How to Store, Share, Access, and Dispose of Controlled Unclassified Information Under CMMC
Most CMMC gaps we find during a readiness assessment have nothing to do with a missing firewall rule or an