CMMC isn't optional.
We get you certified-ready.
118K+ companies in the Defense Industrial Base now need CMMC Level 2 to keep bidding on contracts that touch Controlled Unclassified Information. ByteTempest builds the technical controls, the documentation, and the ongoing posture that gets you through a C3PAO assessment — and keeps you compliant after.
Why this is urgent now
CMMC enforcement began in November 2025. Primes are already flowing the requirement down to subcontractors, and contracting officers are starting to reject proposals from companies that can't demonstrate a path to certification. If you handle CUI and you're not at least working toward Level 2, you're already behind the companies you're competing against for the same contracts.
The hard part usually isn't any single control. It's that NIST SP 800-171 has 110 of them, spanning access control, incident response, system monitoring, and a dozen other domains — and most small contractors have never had to document security work this formally before.
What a C3PAO actually checks
An assessor isn't just looking for controls that exist — they're looking for evidence those controls have been operating consistently over time. A firewall rule with no monitoring logs behind it doesn't satisfy a continuous-monitoring control. A security policy nobody's read doesn't satisfy a training control.
That's the gap ByteTempest closes: not just standing up the control, but generating the monthly evidence trail an assessor will actually accept, so the assessment itself isn't a scramble.
Built around the controls that fail audits most.
Managed Detection & Response
Directly satisfies SI.3.218 and CA.2.157 continuous monitoring — the two controls most contractors fail to evidence. Monthly reports format straight into your evidence binder.
View details → Managed, MonthlySecurity Awareness Training
Satisfies AT.2.056 and AT.3.058. Quarterly phishing simulations and completion tracking, generating the workforce training documentation your assessor will ask for by name.
View details → Retainer, MonthlyIncident Response Retainer
Pre-paid IR with guaranteed SLA, plus DFARS 252.204-7012 reporting support built in — including the 72-hour DoD notification clock that starts the moment you discover an incident.
View details → Retainer, MonthlyvCISO Retainer
The senior security ownership your prime contractor's due-diligence questionnaire is asking about by name, without a six-figure full-time hire.
View details → Project-BasedCUI Enclave Design
Isolating CUI into a properly scoped Azure GCC High or M365 GCC environment, often the single biggest lever for shrinking your assessment boundary.
View details → Project-BasedGap Assessment & SSP
The starting point for almost every engagement: a control-by-control gap assessment against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls, followed by an audit-ready System Security Plan.
Build a quote →Most contractors move through this in roughly this order.
Gap assessment
Every one of the 110 controls scored against your current environment, producing a Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) that ranks what's missing by risk and effort.
Remediation & documentation
Closing the highest-priority gaps first — usually access control, monitoring, and incident response — while building the policy suite that documents how each control actually operates.
SSP & SPRS submission
A formal System Security Plan ready for assessor review, with your SPRS score updated to reflect your actual current posture, not a stale self-assessment from a year ago.
Ongoing posture management
A CMMC Readiness Retainer keeps evidence current between assessments — SPRS maintenance, policy updates, and an annual affirmation, so the next audit isn't a fire drill either.
Building TempestShield
ByteTempest is building TempestShield, a platform that automates evidence collection and POA&M tracking directly against your M365/Azure environment, so the documentation work that currently eats the most hours becomes mostly automatic. See what we're building →