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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.

The path to certified-ready

Most contractors move through this in roughly this order.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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 →