Compliance & security governance
Mapped is not implemented. Implemented is not certified.
Mission impact
An assessor reads what you live with. Control narratives written from operator evidence, with open gaps on the POA&M, are what survive scrutiny.
Preparation for scrutiny
A contracting officer or assessor will read what you live with. We write the boundary, the control descriptions, and the POA&M from operator evidence. A template’s imagined environment is not a posture.
What the engagement covers
Scope and shared responsibility. Requirement to evidence, owner, and cadence. POA&M items that close only on cited artifacts. Incident procedures exercised in a tabletop. Dense agency mappings belong on the Federal Buyers path.
What we will not say
We do not claim CMMC, FedRAMP, SOC 2, or an ATO. We do not advertise CUI authorization. We do not collapse a mapped control into a certified system. Formal determinations stay with the authorized body.
Pairing
Zero-Trust Architecture and DevSecOps implement what the artifacts describe. This practice authors; it does not install a product.
Key capabilities
Actual boundary
The SSP describes the estate that exists.
Open gaps
Missing evidence is a POA&M, not a pass.
Named owners
Every in-scope requirement has a person and a cadence.
Exercised IR
A tabletop has a date. A binder does not.
No badge
We prepare. We do not certify.
Sovereignty features
The SSP describes the estate that actually exists, on infrastructure you control. Evidence stays with you.
Defense & government relevance
NIST SP 800-171 is the referenced bar. We do not claim CMMC, FedRAMP, SOC 2, or an ATO, and we do not advertise CUI authorization. Formal determinations stay with the authorized body.