Achieve CMMC
Compliance
Infrastructure aligned with the US Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). MassiveGRID provides the hardened cloud environment Defense Industrial Base contractors need to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and meet DoD cybersecurity requirements.
Framework & Standard Alignment
CMMC requires defense contractors to implement robust access controls aligned with NIST SP 800-171 requirements. MassiveGRID enforces least privilege access, multi-factor authentication, account management, and remote access security controls at the infrastructure level to protect CUI and FCI across your environment.
Access Control
Enforce least privilege access and separation of duties across all systems handling CUI. CMMC requires organizations to limit information system access to authorized users, processes, and devices, and to restrict access to the types of transactions and functions that authorized users are permitted to execute.
Identity & Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforced for all privileged and remote access to systems processing CUI. CMMC Level 2 mandates identification and authentication of users, devices, and processes before granting access, with replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access.
Remote Access Security
Encrypted remote access sessions with monitoring and control capabilities. CMMC requires routing all remote access through managed access control points, employing cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions, and authorizing remote execution of privileged commands.
Account Management
Comprehensive lifecycle management for all system accounts with automated provisioning and de-provisioning. CMMC requires managing information system accounts including establishing, activating, modifying, reviewing, disabling, and removing accounts in accordance with organizational policies.
CMMC requires robust system and communications protection controls to safeguard CUI during processing, storage, and transmission. MassiveGRID delivers FIPS-validated encryption, boundary protection, session management, network segmentation, and cryptographic standards that satisfy NIST SP 800-171 requirements at the platform level.
Boundary Protection
Monitor and control communications at the external boundaries and key internal boundaries of information systems. CMMC requires implementing subnetworks for publicly accessible system components that are physically or logically separated from internal networks, with managed interfaces and traffic filtering.
Data-in-Transit Encryption
Implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of CUI during transmission. CMMC mandates FIPS-validated encryption for all CUI transmitted across networks, using TLS 1.2+ for web traffic, IPsec for site-to-site connectivity, and encrypted tunnels for remote access.
Data-at-Rest Encryption
Protect the confidentiality of CUI at rest using AES-256 encryption across all storage volumes. CMMC requires FIPS-validated cryptographic mechanisms for storage encryption with centralized key management and secure key storage using hardware security modules (HSMs).
CUI Isolation
Isolate CUI processing environments from general-purpose computing resources. CMMC requires security domains to be separated with controlled boundaries, ensuring CUI is processed and stored in dedicated enclaves with enhanced monitoring and access restrictions.
Network Segmentation
Micro-segmentation and VLAN isolation to separate CUI-processing networks from general traffic. CMMC requires employing architectural designs, software development techniques, and systems engineering principles that promote effective information security within organizational systems.
Cryptographic Standards
FIPS-validated cryptographic modules for all encryption operations protecting CUI. CMMC Level 2 requires employing FIPS-validated cryptography when used to protect the confidentiality of CUI, with formal key management processes covering generation, distribution, storage, and destruction.
CMMC requires defense contractors to establish and maintain incident response capabilities including preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and reporting. Under DFARS 252.204-7012, cyber incidents involving CUI must be reported to the DoD within 72 hours. MassiveGRID provides the infrastructure and monitoring capabilities to support these requirements.
Incident Response Planning
CMMC mandates documented incident response plans that address preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery. MassiveGRID provides the infrastructure telemetry and alerting capabilities needed to execute your IR plan effectively across CUI-processing environments.
- Incident response plan templates aligned with NIST SP 800-171 requirements
- 24/7 monitoring with automated alerting for security events affecting CUI systems
- Defined incident severity classification and escalation procedures
- Integration with SIEM platforms for centralized event correlation
- Regular IR plan testing with tabletop exercises and lessons learned
Detection & Reporting
CMMC requires organizations to detect, report, and track security incidents affecting systems and CUI. Under DFARS 252.204-7012, contractors must report cyber incidents to the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) within 72 hours and preserve forensic evidence for at least 90 days.
- Real-time intrusion detection and anomaly monitoring across CUI boundaries
- Automated incident reporting workflows aligned with DFARS 72-hour requirements
- Forensic evidence preservation with tamper-evident logging and 90-day retention
- Malicious code detection and network traffic analysis for threat indicators
- Integration with DoD reporting channels and DC3 submission processes
Recovery & Business Continuity
CMMC requires organizations to maintain the capability to recover from incidents and ensure continuity of operations for CUI-processing systems. MassiveGRID's HA architecture provides the infrastructure resilience defense contractors need to maintain operational readiness.
- Proxmox HA cluster with automatic VM failover under 60 seconds
- Automated daily backups with configurable retention across 4 data center regions
- Disaster recovery with defined RPO/RTO targets for CUI systems
- N+1 redundancy across compute, storage, and network layers
- Business continuity plan support with regular testing and validation
CMMC requires comprehensive audit and accountability controls including system event logging, security assessments, risk management, vulnerability management, awareness training, and configuration management. MassiveGRID provides the technical infrastructure to satisfy these requirements while defense contractors focus on organizational and procedural controls.
Audit Logging
Create and retain system audit logs to enable monitoring, analysis, investigation, and reporting of unlawful or unauthorized system activity. CMMC requires logging of user actions, system events, and access to CUI with tamper-resistant log storage and time synchronization.
Security Assessments
Periodically assess security controls in organizational systems to determine if controls are effective in their application. CMMC requires regular assessments of control effectiveness, with remediation of identified deficiencies and documentation of assessment results.
Risk Management
Periodically assess risk to organizational operations, assets, and individuals resulting from the operation of organizational systems and the processing, storage, or transmission of CUI. CMMC mandates risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and inform security decisions.
Vulnerability Management
Scan for vulnerabilities in organizational systems periodically and remediate in accordance with risk assessments. CMMC requires timely patching of known vulnerabilities, vulnerability scanning, and formal risk acceptance processes for deferred remediation.
Awareness & Training
Ensure that personnel are trained to carry out their assigned information security-related duties and responsibilities. CMMC requires role-based security awareness training, insider threat awareness, and training on recognizing and reporting potential indicators of insider threats.
Configuration Management
Establish and maintain baseline configurations and inventories of organizational systems throughout their lifecycle. CMMC requires security configuration settings, change management processes, and restricting nonessential programs, functions, ports, protocols, and services.
Your CMMC Compliance Journey
MassiveGRID accelerates your path to CMMC certification by providing infrastructure that satisfies the technical practices required to protect CUI. Here is the typical compliance process for Defense Industrial Base contractors.
Ready to Achieve CMMC Compliance?
MassiveGRID's compliance team works directly with Defense Industrial Base contractors and C3PAO assessors. Contact us to discuss your CMMC Level 2 requirements, CUI boundary scoping, and deployment strategy for protecting controlled defense information.