CMMC Readiness Consulting

Who CMMC applies to.

Not sure if CMMC applies to you? If you're anywhere in the DoD contract chain, it probably does.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) required certification program for contractors handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). CMMC 2.0 aligned the model to NIST SP 800-171 and introduced three levels, with requirements now appearing in DoD contracts on a phased schedule through 2028. The question might not just be whether CMMC applies to you — it's more likely about which level, when, and how much of your existing program can carry you there.

Who's in scope:

Prime contractors holding DoD contracts involving FCI or CUI
Subcontractors at any tier when CMMC requirements flow down from a prime
Suppliers and service providers in the Defense Industrial Base supply chain
Cloud and MSP partners whose services touch the CUI environment (shared-responsibility scope)
Any organization preparing for upcoming DoD solicitations naming CMMC as a contract award condition

We're not your assessor. We're the team that gets you ready for one.

There's a clear line between the assessor's role and ours. C3PAOs (CMMC Third-Party Assessor Organizations) and DIBCAC (Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center) teams are bound by independence rules that prevent them from telling you how to pass. They assess what you've built.

We sit on the other side of the table: scoping the CUI environment, building the System Security Plan (SSP), closing technical gaps, and walking you through what your assessor will ask before they ask it.

Defining a tight, well-scoped CUI boundary

And, keeping it small.

Building a System Security Plan

An SSP an assessor can actually use.

Closing technical gaps

Against specific assessment objectives, not just the spirit of the control.

Coordinating shared responsibility

With your cloud and MSP (Managed Service Provider) partners.

Producing evidence

In a form a C3PAO or DIBCAC team can review efficiently.

Walking you through pre-assessment readiness

So there are no surprises at fieldwork.

Where companies typically need help.

The gaps we see most often when we walk in.

Most DoD contractors have meaningful cybersecurity controls already — often built against NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2. The trouble with CMMC isn't that the controls are exotic. It's that the boundary, the documentation, and the assessment-readiness work are different from anything those programs were designed to produce.

Where clients need help:

Scoping the CUI boundary tightly — and minimizing it instead of expanding it
Building a System Security Plan strong enough to survive C3PAO scrutiny
Closing technical gaps in things like multi-factor authentication, encryption, and logging — built to what the assessor actually checks, not what looks good on paper
Coordinating shared responsibility with cloud and MSP partners so inherited controls hold up under review

Integrate, don't duplicate.

If you already operate NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2, you've done more of the underlying CMMC work than you realize. We map what you have to NIST 800-171 control families and only build what's genuinely missing.

Schedule a readiness assessment call

How Reveal Risk gets you ready.

Scope it, build it, prove it — the three things every CMMC assessor will check.

We organize CMMC readiness around three pillars that mirror how your assessor will actually evaluate you. Where your existing programs already cover a requirement, we reuse them. Where CMMC asks for something new, we build it with you and embed it into how you already operate.

Define CUI Scope

Implement & Document Controls

Assessment Readiness

Know what’s in, what’s out, and where responsibility changes hands.

Find the CUI — map where sensitive government information lives, moves, and gets touched across your systems and your partners
Draw the boundary — define what's in scope for assessment and what's deliberately kept out
Sort out shared responsibility — get clear on which controls you own and which your cloud and MSP providers cover
Keep the scope small — the smaller and tighter the boundary, the cheaper and faster the assessment
Build on what you have — reuse the NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 work you've already done

Turn existing security work into assessor-ready controls and documentation.

Close the control gaps — work through the 110 NIST 800-171 controls, highest-impact first, building only what's missing
Write the SSP — a real, usable System Security Plan covering every control and the people responsible for it (this is the first document assessors open)
Build the policy backbone — policies and procedures tied directly to your CMMC controls, not generic templates pulled off a shelf
Harden the technical controls — multi-factor authentication, strong encryption, logging, and access controls configured the way assessors actually check

Make the evidence easy to review before the real assessment begins.

Package the scope — asset inventory, network diagrams, and data-flow documentation in the format your assessor expects
Build the POA&M — a Plan of Action & Milestones for any open items, with realistic dates the assessor can really accept
Organize the evidence — every control mapped to the proof behind it, so the assessment moves quickly
Run a dry run — a mock assessment walkthrough so the real one holds no surprises

Define CUI Scope

Know what’s in, what’s out, and where responsibility changes hands.

Find the CUI — map where sensitive government information lives, moves, and gets touched across your systems and your partners
Draw the boundary — define what's in scope for assessment and what's deliberately kept out
Sort out shared responsibility — get clear on which controls you own and which your cloud and MSP providers cover
Keep the scope small — the smaller and tighter the boundary, the cheaper and faster the assessment
Build on what you have — reuse the NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 work you've already done