Priya didn’t flinch. She shared her screen.
Mara’s jaw tightened. “So, a gap.”
That night, Mara wrote her final evaluation memo to the CEO. Subject:
“Let’s walk the 110 controls,” Priya said. “Good news first: For AC.L2-3.1.1 (authorized access) and SC.L2-3.13.11 (FIPS-validated cryptography), we’re solid. Our OpenPGP standard and AES-256 are FIPS 140-2 validated. Your data in transit is safe from the Chinese cyber actors you’re worried about.”
“A bridgeable gap,” Priya corrected. “We released the CMMC Compliance Module last quarter. It adds three things: 1) Tamper-proof audit trails in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) format. 2) Automatic session recording for admin actions—that’s your MA.L2-3.5.3 (maintenance tools). And 3) a direct API to your SIEM for automated alerting on anomalous transfer patterns, which covers your RA.L2-3.11.2 (vulnerability scanning).”
“That’s compliance,” Mara said. “And compliance is what keeps the contract lights on.”
The next morning, she dialed into a technical briefing with a senior solutions architect from Globalscape, a patient woman named Priya.
Priya didn’t flinch. She shared her screen.
Mara’s jaw tightened. “So, a gap.”
That night, Mara wrote her final evaluation memo to the CEO. Subject:
“Let’s walk the 110 controls,” Priya said. “Good news first: For AC.L2-3.1.1 (authorized access) and SC.L2-3.13.11 (FIPS-validated cryptography), we’re solid. Our OpenPGP standard and AES-256 are FIPS 140-2 validated. Your data in transit is safe from the Chinese cyber actors you’re worried about.”
“A bridgeable gap,” Priya corrected. “We released the CMMC Compliance Module last quarter. It adds three things: 1) Tamper-proof audit trails in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) format. 2) Automatic session recording for admin actions—that’s your MA.L2-3.5.3 (maintenance tools). And 3) a direct API to your SIEM for automated alerting on anomalous transfer patterns, which covers your RA.L2-3.11.2 (vulnerability scanning).”
“That’s compliance,” Mara said. “And compliance is what keeps the contract lights on.”
The next morning, she dialed into a technical briefing with a senior solutions architect from Globalscape, a patient woman named Priya.