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Day: February 18, 2026

CMMC Documentation Isn’t About Volume, It’s About Proof

You’ve heard it before: CMMC requires an SSP, policies, procedures, evidence files. But here’s what matters for DIB contractors, documentation isn’t about creating a library. It’s about proving your security controls actually work. The real risk? Building documentation that looks complete but fails under assessment scrutiny. I’ve seen contractors produce 300-page SSPs that miss fundamental […]

CMMC Level 1 Requires 17 Safeguards 15 Controls

The official FAR clause lists 15 safeguards, but CMMC documentation often references 17 practices. Here is why: 

CMMC inherited the DoD’s earlier mapping from the DFARS 252.204-21 “Basic Safeguarding” table, where two of the FAR requirements were split into multiple CMMC practice IDs during modeling. They are not additional requirements—just a structural carryover from the original DoD-to-NIST mapping exercise.