ASCERA CMMC SERVICES
CMMC Success Program
The CMMC Success Program from ASCERA is our Services-based approach that is designed to help OSCs achieve three significant outcomes:
- Ensure that customers realize optimal value from your use of ASCERA
- More painlessly build and manage your CMMC program
- Knowledge transfer of expertise to turn CMMC program owners into security and compliance superheroes
The CMMC Success Program is accomplished through these key pillars:
- (12) weekly Advisory calls with a designated CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA)
- Advisement driven by our CMMC Accelerator Methodology
- Prescriptive Guidance for OSC Self-Service (“Teaching a Man to Fish”)
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ASCERA CMMC Success Program
Once a new customer starts using ASCERA, you have the option to be paired with a Certified CMMC Assessor who:
- Provides (12) weekly Advisory calls with a designated CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA)
- Follows prescriptive steps, each focused on different components of your CMMC program and how they can more effectively built in ASCERA
- These steps are referred to as our CMMC Accelerator Methodology, which are designed to build your program in a manner which:
- =Maximizes system protection by prioritizing highest-value security requirements and working backwards from there
- =Reduces the time-to-assessment readiness by grouping particular domains and not simply building requirement by requirement
- The program is tailored based upon each OSC’s current state and level of readiness
CMMC Accelerator Methodology
ASCERA’s Accelerator Methodology covers a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:
CUI Data Flow (Boundary Analysis)
Ensures that you are not under- nor over- scoping your CMMC environment. Many organizations do not have clear line of sight on where CUI flows within their organization, from Sales and Procurement through product or service delivery. Many OSC’s miss including what should be in-scope assets. ASCERA’s Services guidance ensures that you properly scope your CUl environment. This includes recommendations to minimize your CUI footprint and, as a result, the time, cost, and complexity of your CMMC program.
Access Management and Control
Only 20% to 25% of organizations are properly managing user access. Most OSCs will simply pull Users straight out of a user management system such as Active Directory or Entra ID and say, “we have our list of users”. This is insufficient from a security and compliance perspective. ASCERA Services provide the necessary counsel on how to manage users at an audit-acceptable level; and how to leverage the ASCERA solution to make this process less time-consuming and more secure.
Multi-Factor Authentication
Most organizations have MFA deployed; however, over 50% configure MFA in a manner that will fail a security compliance assessment. There are several reasons that this occurs. ASCERA’S СММС Success Program provides advisement on the common mistakes in properly deploying MFA and instruction on how to best configure your authentication systems to avoid potential assessment failures.
Implementation Statement Guidance
ASCERA finds that only ~25% of OSC System Security Plans are assessment ready. Many organizations write the SSP at the Control level, and in doing so, miss specific Objectives within each Control. Your designated Certified CMMC Assessor from ASCERA will ensure that you avoid these mistakes and others tied to the proper, required CMMC documentation. This also extends to other documentation provided as out-of-the-box templates in ASCERA.
Risk Management
CMMC requires that OSC’s identify and document risk. This is not as insurmountable as it seems. But, where to start? ASCERA has a prebuilt Risk Register that makes the creation of this customized artifact painless. ASCERA Services walks you through this exercise to ensure OSC security and assessment readiness.
Vulnerability Management
Assessors are mixed as to whether missing patch SLA’s is considered a “hard fail.” ASCERA Services will advise you on what’s most important, and how to manage this in ASCERA: tracking exceptions to the SLA, and documenting in your risk register, a ticketing system, or patch management system; being able to demonstrate that vulnerabilities are not running wild; and that there is a reasonable level of identification, tracking, and mitigation.
These are just a representative sample of how ASCERA Services combines with ASCERA to ensure OSC security and assessment readiness.
ASCERA’s CMMC Success Program
Covers 22 Discrete Components
of CMMC Readiness.
Services are tailored based upon where each customer requires guidance.
Multi-Factor AuthenticationUser and Role IdentificationAccess Management and ControlNetwork SecurityVulnerability ManagementMedia Handling
Public Information Dissemination Control
Malicious Code Control
Security Baseline for Assets
Risk Management
Incident Response
Maintenance
System Security Plan
System Inventory and Device Identification
Transaction and Function Identification
Basic Computer ConfigurationPhysical and Personnel SecurityAwareness & TrainingLogging & MonitoringChange ManagementCryptography
Defining the Network and Boundary
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