Managed Cybersecurity Compliance

The road to compliance begins with a survey of your current environment and future needs to evaluate your organization’s level of assessment readiness and to help inform a potential roadmap for compliance. We will even provide you budget considerations to help plan for next steps.

SSE’s NIST 800-171 and CMMC Gap Assessment is a detailed evidence collection, assessment, and analysis of a company’s environment. It includes:

• Verification against all NIST 800-171 and CMMC 2.0 (Level 1 and 2)
• Review and verification of existing IT tools
• Review of any existing System Security Plan (SSP)
• Review of any existing Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs)
• Review of any existing policies/procedures and physical security practices

The output is the identification and documentation of all gaps in the form of a complete Security Assessment Report (SAR) that includes the following deliverables:

• NIST 800-171 Assessment and Scoring
• Detailed Compliance Matrix for both NIST 800-171 and CMMC Levels 1 and 2
• Security Findings Traceability Matrix – SSP Information
• Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs) for all unmet requirements

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With the compliance gaps identified, SSE’s remediation services can be customized to subsidize and/or enhance previous or existing compliance efforts. These services were vetted to ensure compliance with the 110 controls defined by NIST 800-171 and scoped to meet the evolving CMMC standards in a cost-effective manner.

• Documenting policies/procedures via SSE Model Policy Templates: Documentation is often the most challenging aspect of meeting requirements discovered in a Gap Assessment. SSE has developed Model Policy Templates for customization to a client’s environment for all IT and non-IT controls. This documentation can save your team weeks or even months in trying to draft the necessary documentation to satisfy requirements. [link]
• Implementing an IT plan with SSE’s Cybersecurity Tech Stack + GPOs: In addition to replacing or upgrading any network infrastructure that may be outdated or insufficient to meet requirements, SSE remediates all the security gaps found during an assessment. Our services can be customized as necessary to only implement just what you need to meet requirements. [link]
• Finalizing a System Security Plan (SSP): Finally, we look at the big picture, considering the steps needed to get to and maintain compliance across your organization. SSE leverages software to track and report on compliance which saves companies countless hours trying to maintain the volume of information and evidence required for certification. Ensuring that your business has an updated System Security Plan (SSP) is one of the requirements of NIST 800-171 and CMMC.

Compliance is not a one-time effort. Our Managed Cybersecurity Compliance offerings support continuous monitoring and management of the tools, settings, and policies, as well as evidence collection to sustain regulatory compliance with CMMC Level 1 and 2 requirements.

Given the DoD requires a Senior Company Official to annually affirm their on-going compliance, our outsourced services include ongoing monitoring of your network systems to include:

• Deployment, remediation, and management of the SSE Tech Stack
• Policies and procedures either completed by SSE or guided by SSE-provided templates
• Evidence collection and compliance reporting
• Issue identification and POA&M execution to maintain compliance