CMMC Advisory
Regulatory compliance-focused cybersecurity maturity planning and maintenance, from preparation through assessment and beyond.
What Compliance Is Included in Cybersecurity Advisory Services?
Cybersecurity advisory covers a wide range of domestic and international compliance frameworks, and many of them overlap in regulated industries. Common requirement types include data privacy, financial regulation, cybersecurity standards, and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism rules.
Oversight of regulated industries keeps rising, and implementing the requirements is hard. Our advisory work focuses on DFARS and CMMC, NIST, ITAR, and SEC-related regulations, and it maps how evolving requirements affect your long-term plan.
What Our Compliance Advisory Services Can Do for You
Security Policy Development
Writing and implementing policies that match your environment and your frameworks.
Security Risk Assessments
Identifying and ranking the risks that affect your operations and contracts.
Incident Response Planning
Building and managing the plan for when something goes wrong.
Vulnerability Assessments
Finding weaknesses in systems so they can be prioritized and fixed.
Compliance Audits and Assessments
Checking your program against the requirements before an outside party does.
Security Awareness Training
Preparing your people to recognize and report threats.
Security Controls and Implementation
Putting the technical and procedural controls in place and keeping them working.
The Requirements We Advise On
One organization often answers to several of these at once, which is why planning across them saves effort.
| Framework | What It Covers |
|---|---|
| DFARS and CMMC | Safeguarding covered defense information through NIST SP 800-171, incident reporting within 72 hours, and verification of those practices |
| NIST | The control frameworks, including SP 800-171, that most federal and defense requirements draw from |
| ITAR | Restrictions on who can access defense-related technical data and where it can be stored |
| SEC | Cybersecurity risk management and incident disclosure expectations for public companies |
We map these requirements against one another so a single control or document can satisfy more than one obligation where the frameworks allow it.
Who Needs CMMC Advisory?
A few situations tend to bring organizations to this conversation.
Answering to more than one framework and unsure how the requirements overlap
Handling CUI or export-controlled data and needing a plan that lasts beyond one assessment
Lacking in-house compliance expertise to keep policies and controls current
Watching regulations change and needing someone to track what it means for you
Advice From an Authorized C3PAO
Sentinel Blue is a CyberAB-authorized C3PAO with CMMC Certified Assessors on staff. Our advisory work draws on how assessments are run, so guidance reflects what assessors expect to see.
Advisory connects to the rest of our work. Policies, risk assessments, and incident response plans link to the monitoring and security operations our in-house SOC runs, so your documentation matches your environment.
The goal is a program you can maintain, with maturity planning that continues after the assessment is over.
CMMC Advisory FAQ
CMMC advisory is ongoing, compliance-focused guidance on cybersecurity maturity. It covers policy development, risk assessments, incident response planning, vulnerability assessments, compliance audits, security awareness training, and the implementation of security controls.
Our focus is DFARS and CMMC, NIST, ITAR, and SEC-related cybersecurity regulations. We map how those requirements overlap and change over time, so your planning covers more than one framework at a time.
Readiness is a defined push to prepare for an assessment. Advisory is the longer relationship, with maturity planning and upkeep that continue before, during, and after any assessment.
Yes. Compliance overlap is common across defense, aerospace, health, pharma, infrastructure, telecom, and environmental industries, and the same planning approach applies when several frameworks apply to one organization.
Begin with a conversation about your contracts, the data you handle, and the frameworks you answer to. We use that to recommend where advisory work should focus first.
Ready to Get to Work? So Are We.
Our cyber adversaries are not waiting, and neither are we. Let's talk about your IT and cybersecurity needs and the frameworks you answer to.