Strategy and Maturity
A proven methodology for creating and maintaining a robust cybersecurity plan.
What Are Strategy and Maturity Services?
Strategy and maturity services are ongoing work to coordinate your cybersecurity frameworks and compliance requirements into a single plan. That work covers the documentation behind your program, including system security plans, policies, and implementation tracking.
We take ownership of your cybersecurity strategy and keep it current as your environment, contracts, and standards change, so the plan on paper matches the program you run.
What Strategy and Maturity Can Do for You
SSP and POA&M Maintenance
Keeping your system security plan and plans of action and milestones accurate as your environment changes.
Baseline Policies
Implementing policies aligned with CMMC domain requirements.
Dedicated Virtual CISO
Advisory leadership that owns the strategy and guides decisions.
Risk Assessments
Regular evaluation of threats and gaps that feeds the plan.
Assessment Support
Preparation and support for the assessments your contracts require.
Align Leadership, Reduce Risk, Invest Smart
Leadership aligned on where the security program is headed
Reduced risk through a plan that stays current
Smarter investment, with spending tied to the risks that matter most
Strategy and CMMC
CMMC Level 2 spans 14 domains, and several practices depend on documentation and planning that have to be maintained over time.
| Requirement | What It Expects |
|---|---|
| CA.L2-3.12.2 | Develop and implement plans of action to correct deficiencies and reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities |
| CA.L2-3.12.3 | Monitor security controls on an ongoing basis to ensure their continued effectiveness |
| CA.L2-3.12.4 | Develop, document, and periodically update system security plans |
| RA.L2-3.11.1 | Periodically assess the risk to operations, assets, and individuals |
These practices are easy to meet on the day of an assessment and hard to sustain afterward. Ongoing ownership of the plan is what keeps your documentation accurate between assessments.
Who Needs Strategy and Maturity Services?
A few situations tend to bring organizations to this conversation.
Holding a system security plan that was written once and never maintained
Lacking the in-house expertise to own a cybersecurity strategy day to day
Needing leadership and technical teams working from the same plan
Preparing for an assessment and wanting documentation that matches reality
A Partner That Owns the Plan
Many organizations hire help to produce documents and then carry the upkeep alone. We stay in the work, maintaining your SSP and POA&M, keeping policies aligned with CMMC domain requirements, and supporting you when an assessment arrives.
Sentinel Blue is a CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization with CMMC Certified Assessors on staff, so the strategy we build reflects how assessments run.
Your dedicated Virtual CISO works alongside our in-house Security Operations Center, which keeps strategy connected to what is happening in your environment.
Strategy and Maturity FAQ
Strategy and maturity services are ongoing work to coordinate your cybersecurity frameworks, compliance requirements, and documentation into one plan. We take ownership of that plan and keep it current as your environment, contracts, and standards change.
Strategy is the plan, meaning where your security program needs to go and how it supports the business. Maturity is how well that plan is carried out and sustained over time. Both need regular attention, because a strong plan that nobody maintains slips quickly.
Yes. A dedicated Virtual CISO provides advisory support as part of the engagement, helping align leadership, guide investment decisions, and keep the program on track.
We do. Maintaining the SSP and plans of action and milestones is part of the service, so your documentation reflects the program you are running instead of what was true at the last assessment.
Yes. We support clients through assessments, and as a CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization we know what assessors look for in your documentation and evidence.
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 build a plan that lasts.