About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of thorough evidence collection for CMMC assessments and the lessons learned from early gap assessments for DIB contractors.
If your CMMC plan is mostly “we wrote the policies,” you may be closer to a rude awakening than a clean assessment. We dig into early CMMC gap assessment lessons for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors and translate what auditors are really signaling, especially when C3PAOs look beyond the System Security Plan (SSP) and ask for proof that controls run consistently in the real world. We walk through the heavy lift most teams underestimate: evidence collection. Think screenshots, system ...
Topics covered
- CMMC
- gap assessment
- evidence collection
- Defense Industrial Base
- auditor signals
Keywords
- CMMC
- gap assessment
- evidence collection
- auditors
- System Security Plan
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CMMC Academy, Armada Cyber Defense LLC, C3PAOs, Defense Industrial Base
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