Cybersecurity Compliance

Compliance work usually starts the same way: a framework has a name, an assessor is going to ask for evidence, and nobody on staff has done this before. CMMC for a defense subcontractor, HIPAA for a clinic, CJIS for a police department, FERPA for a school district, PCI for anyone taking a card — the frameworks differ, but the underlying work is the same. Segment the network, control access, log what happens, and be able to prove all three on the day someone asks.

We are not a certifying body and we do not issue the certification itself — that is a third-party assessor's job, and for CMMC specifically, a C3PAO's. What we do is the readiness work that comes before that assessment: closing the gaps, building the evidence, and getting the environment into a state where the assessment is a formality rather than a discovery process.

The CMMC timeline is worth knowing if defense work is part of your business. Level 1 and Level 2 self-assessment requirements are already appearing in DoD solicitations. The third-party assessment requirement that was due to expand in November 2026 was paused for review in mid-2026, but the underlying security requirements were never suspended, and prime contractors have kept enforcing their own supplier requirements throughout. Waiting for a firm date is not really a strategy — the assessment requirement can reappear in a solicitation before it reappears in the news.

What the readiness work covers

• A gap assessment against the framework that applies to you — CMMC, HIPAA, CJIS, FERPA or PCI
• Remediation of the controls that would fail an assessment today
• Documentation and evidence built in the format an assessor actually wants to see
• A System Security Plan and the supporting artifacts, kept current rather than written once and forgotten

What readiness gets you

None of this is optional once a framework applies to you. The only choice is whether the work happens on your schedule or an assessor's.