If you’ve spent more than five minutes Googling CMMC compliance solutions, you already know how confusing and misleading the marketing is. Some vendors want you to buy licensing first. Others waterboard you with acronyms that further confuse the situation. Almost all of them only solve part of the problem, leaving you to figure out the rest.
Here’s the truth: We have been solving this problem for defense contractors longer than anyone in the space and have a long track record of getting customers fully compliant with DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171 and now CMMC 2.0 cybersecurity requirements. We tell you exactly what you need. Then, we’ll deliver it. All of it. Solving your entire compliance problem. And yes, we have already received our CMMC Level 2 Certificates from a C3PAO.
So, with that experience we are well positioned to highlight things to watch out for as you look for a vendor to work with.
The Real Problem: Most Vendors Only Solve Part of the Problem
A lot of vendors in the CMMC space sell assessments, licensing, or documentation. But very few take full ownership of getting you all the way to compliance. Even fewer will stand by your side when the auditor shows up.
That’s a big problem.
CMMC isn’t about buying software. It’s about documenting, implementing and demonstrating the required security controls. Buying licenses or getting a gap assessment is like buying blueprints and lumber—you still don’t have a house.
At CyberSheath, we solve the whole problem. We assess your current environment, implement every required control, and manage your compliance month-to-month, year-over-year. No guesswork. No gaps. No software licensing driven sales pitches.
Warning Signs You’re Talking to the Wrong Vendor
We’ve onboarded customers who learned the hard way. Here are the red flags they saw—too late:
- “License-first” Models: If a vendor starts by pitching you licenses, run. Buying licenses is easy. Compliance is not. They are starting with licensing because their business model is built on selling licensing. Our business model is built on solving your compliance problem.
- Partial Solutions: If they say, “we’ll handle 80% of your compliance” and leave the rest to you, that’s not a solution. It’s a liability.
- Marketing Buzzwords: FedRAMP, FIPS, GCC High—these are features, not solutions. They don’t equal compliance.
- No Audit Experience: Ask, how many customers like me have you taken through a C3PAO audit this year?
- One-sided Contracts: If incident response costs extra or the vendor can pause support if your environment isn’t perfect, that’s not a partnership.
- Insane Pricing: Even to a non-CMMC expert the pricing seems unbelievable. Trust your gut, it’s over- or underpriced.
What a Real CMMC Compliance Partner Looks Like
When you’re evaluating providers, ask:
- Have they passed a CMMC audit on their own infrastructure?
- Have they taken customers like you through successful audits?
- Do they offer a complete solution: assessment, implementation, and ongoing management?
- Is remediation included, or are you paying extra every time something needs to be fixed?
- Can they explain how compliance is maintained long after the audit is over?
CyberSheath can answer yes to all of the above.
We don’t just “help with compliance.”
We become your IT, security, and regulatory compliance department.
Managed Service Built for Defense Contractors. Period.
We’re not a generalist IT provider dabbling in CMMC. We’re veteran-led, U.S.-based, and we’ve been doing nothing but helping defense contractors solve DFARS, NIST, and now CMMC compliance solutions for over a decade.
Our clients range from 50-person machine shops to multi-site, multi-thousand-endpoint manufacturers. We meet you where you are: on-prem, in the cloud, or in an enclave.
We’ve taken businesses just like yours through successful C3PAO and equivalent audits in 2024 and 2025.
CMMC Compliance That Doesn’t Stop at the Audit
Passing an audit is a milestone, not a finish line.
With CyberSheath, you get continuous compliance: 24/7 monitoring, vulnerability management, helpdesk services, quarterly business reviews, and annual CMMC re-assessments. We make compliance a natural outcome of daily operations.
Because defense contractor cybersecurity never sleeps, and compliance never ends.
Ready to Get Clarity?
We’re offering a free, no-pressure 15-minute consultation to help you:
- Understand how long compliance will take for your business
- Get a clear, realistic estimate of what it will cost
- Avoid common traps that delay or derail CMMC efforts
You don’t need to have all the answers. That’s what we’re here for.