Defense & Federal GRCCMMC 2.0 Level 2, DFARS 7012 & NIST SP 800-171 Readiness
Department of Defense contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Covered Defense Information (CDI) face strict regulatory mandates backed by DFARS contract clauses and third-party C3PAO assessment requirements. eTrepid delivers technical engineering, boundary scoping, living System Security Plan (SSP) authoring, and rapid incident response protocols to prepare organizations for formal evaluation.
Non-Negotiable Federal Defense Obligations
Federal acquisition regulations enforce cybersecurity through contract eligibility. Contractors must demonstrate objective compliance across three foundational authorities:
Mandatory third-party assessment by an accredited C3PAO verifying all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls prior to contract award.
Mandatory 72-hour cyber incident reporting to DoD via DIBNet and 90-day forensic image and packet capture retention.
110 technical, physical, and administrative requirements across 14 families safeguarding Covered Defense Information.
End-to-End Defense Compliance Operationalization
CUI Boundary Isolation
Minimizing assessment cost by isolating defense contracts into segmented sovereign environments, reducing the number of endpoints subject to C3PAO evaluation.
System Security Plan Engineering
Authoring and continuously maintaining the core SSP, mapping operational telemetry, network diagrams, and control implementations to objective proof artifacts.
SPRS Score Calibration & POA&M
Calculating defensible SPRS scores, prioritizing -5 point deficiency remediations, and establishing realistic 180-day milestone remediation tracks.
C3PAO Assessment Support
Preparing leadership and technical staff for external assessor interviews, staging pre-harvested evidence, and defending technical configurations during formal assessment.
Operational Pillars Supporting Defense GRC
Automated technical gap scanning and evidence harvesting across all 110 controls.
Sovereign government cloud enclaves enforcing data residency and FedRAMP equivalency.
Zero Trust Network Access micro-segmentation isolating CUI from general network traffic.
Prepare Your Defense Assessment Architecture
Protect your DoD contracts and achieve defensible SPRS calibration. Schedule a confidential scoping review with eTrepid defense compliance architects.