CMMC

Supporting DoD or DIB contracts means meeting strict cybersecurity obligations under DFARS, NIST 800-171, and CMMC—often with limited internal resources.

A CMMC gap assessment helps you pinpoint potential blockers early and avoid costly mistakes. Fortreum maps your compliance gaps and provides a clear path forward.

  • CMMC process overview and quick-hit gap framework
  • Identify maturity level and necessary practices
  • Boundary review for separation and data compartmentalization
  • Supply chain and third-party risk review
  • C3PAO assessment preparation

With Fortreum’s help, your CMMC-aligned program becomes a structured, documentation-ready system. We build policies, safeguards, and plans that meet maturity expectations.

  • Align to CMMC and 800-171 domains and practices
  • Update security policies and procedures
  • Address insider threat and supply chain risk
  • Develop required security documentation
  • Implement controls in parallel with documentation

Move forward with confidence toward CMMC certification through Fortreum’s experienced guidance. We help manage your audit and support remediation when needed.

  • Choose experienced C3PAO familiar with frameworks
  • Request schedule and detailed scope estimate
  • Assign internal liaison for C3PAO coordination
  • Plan for remediation within CMMC timelines

CMMC compliance isn’t one-and-done—Fortreum provides continuous assurance to keep your posture intact. We track and validate your maturity level over time.

  • Set continuous assurance objectives and outcomes
  • Align projects to those objectives
  • Track compliance with defined metrics
  • Assess environment changes affecting certification

Business Considerations

Management Buy-in and Leadership is Critical

Achieving certification will require your organization’s time, money, people, and resources. Ensure that the company leadership champions the program and has oversight of all certification activities. Without management involvement, cybersecurity programs lack the ability to align cybersecurity to business objectives and underlying risks to the organization.

Planning is Essential

Ensuring your cybersecurity program is robust, yet adaptable, is critical to today’s regulatory compliance and emerging threats. Developing a clear roadmap will avoid costly mistakes as your organization works to achieve certification. Activities such as gap assessments, have the potential to save your organization from many of the costly mistakes that other government contractors have made.

Develop a Realistic Budget to Achieve and Maintain Certification

The size and complexity of your organization will impact the costs associated with maintaining an effective cybersecurity program. Ensure regulatory compliance and risk management are included in financial budgets, and plan for increased costs during the initial certification. Additionally, ensure your budget aligns to any changes or growth in your overall IT architecture, migration, and transformation strategy.

Experience Matters - Advisor and Assessment Organizations are Not Equal

Select an organization with experienced advisors and assessors who understand the complexity of regulatory compliance and have the experience and ability to map and leverage other regulatory frameworks, such as FISMA, FedRAMP, ISO, SOC, etc. to provide unique cost-effective solutions. Vet all companies and ensure your getting the right team.

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    Why Choose Fortreum?

    We simplify cloud and cybersecurity for our customers

    Fortreum has enterprise grade experience with the right blend of technical and analytical experience to support your cybersecurity and cloud needs.

    Why is CUI important?

    If your organization does business or wants to do business with the DoD or DIB, DFARs rules & guidelines to include NIST SP 800-171 & CMMC may be mandatory for your organization.  CMMC and 800-171 establish security controls/practices that are critical to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of over 300,000 defense contractors.  Information sharing between the government and the DIB is critical to the mission of the DoD, but it must be done securely and free from interference, disruption, or theft by our global adversaries and competitors.

    Why should my organization care?

    Protecting the missions and competitive advantage over other government contractors. An effective cybersecurity program built upon an underlying standard such as NIST SP 800-171 or CMMC has the potential to provide a distinct competitive advantage to your organization.  The US government is evaluating mandatory requirements for all government contractors across all federal contracts, so early adoption of NIST and CMMC requirements may provide a clear competitive advantage as your organization pursues additional government contracts in the US DoD, Federal civilian government, as well as state & local governments.

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