CMMC 2.0
The certification framework defense contractors must meet to bid on DoD contracts. Level 2 requires third-party assessment; Level 3 requires DIBCAC assessment.
Mapped, monitored, and audit-ready.
Every CMMC 2.0 control has a place in Talarity — with cross-mapping, automated evidence, and continuous validation.
Talarity's pre-built control library covering CMMC 2.0, with linked evidence, owners, and testing schedules.
Answer once, prove everywhere. Talarity's mapping engine reuses your evidence across every framework you run.
- System Security Plan (SSP) with control implementation statements
- Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) for any unmet controls
- CUI inventory and handling procedures
- Incident reporting records (DFARS 7012)
- FedRAMP-equivalent or higher cloud service provider attestations
Your CMMC 2.0 dashboard
Every completed CMMC 2.0 assessment updates this automatically — where you stand now, how that has changed, and which areas need work.
What gets easier with Talarity.
CMMC L2 maps to NIST 800-171 r2 — but the assessment objectives are subtly different and there's no single source of truth.
Talarity ships CMMC 2.0 with NIST 800-171 r2 + r3 mappings and the official assessment objectives. Score against any of them; report against the one your contract requires.
The SSP and POA&M are the gating artifacts — and most defense primes ask to see them quarterly.
SSP generates from your control implementations. POA&M auto-populates from any 'Other than Satisfied' result. Both export to PDF on demand.
DFARS 7012 requires 72-hour incident reporting — most teams don't have a fast enough notification path.
Incident workflows with DFARS 7012 routing. Severity triggers automatic ticket creation, evidence preservation, and DoD reporting templates.
Subcontractor flow-down is a black hole — primes can't easily verify their subs are compliant.
Vendor Management tracks subcontractor CMMC status, BAA equivalents (FCI/CUI agreements), and quarterly attestations.
CMMC 2.0 — common questions
- What are the CMMC levels and which one applies to us?
- CMMC has three levels. Level 1 covers basic safeguarding of Federal Contract Information and is met by self-assessment. Level 2 aligns to the NIST SP 800-171 security requirements and applies where Controlled Unclassified Information is handled, with assessment either self-performed or by a third party depending on the contract. Level 3 adds a subset of NIST SP 800-172 requirements for the highest-priority programmes. Your required level is set by the contract, so the flow-down clauses are what determine scope.
- What is the difference between CMMC and NIST SP 800-171?
- NIST SP 800-171 is the underlying set of security requirements for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in non-federal systems. CMMC is the Department of Defense programme that verifies those requirements are actually met, rather than only asserted. In practice you implement 800-171 and CMMC is the assessment mechanism layered over it, which is why an existing 800-171 programme is the bulk of the work already done.
- What is an SPRS score and how is it calculated?
- The Supplier Performance Risk System score reflects your self-assessment against the NIST SP 800-171 requirements. It starts at 110 and points are deducted for each requirement not fully implemented, weighted by the requirement's impact, so the score can fall below zero. Contractors are generally expected to have a current score posted, and unimplemented requirements need to be covered by a plan of action with milestones.
- Do subcontractors need CMMC too?
- Requirements flow down. If a prime passes Controlled Unclassified Information to a subcontractor, the subcontractor must meet the level appropriate to the information it receives. That makes your supplier inventory part of your compliance evidence — you need to know which suppliers touch CUI and hold their status, not just your own.
Working with CMMC 2.0
Step-by-step walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·8 min readPackage your audit evidence once — for the auditor, regulator, or customerAn auditor asks for your evidence and it's scattered across framework reports, vendor attestations, policy sign-offs, and resilience tests. Evidence Distribution Packages assemble the signed artifacts you already produced into one immutable package, then hand it to each audience as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy — with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·7 min readFramework readiness to audit package — the whole cycle on one screenAudit prep usually means a spreadsheet scramble — chasing evidence, tracking which controls are covered, re-checking what's expired. Talarity keeps a live readiness picture for every framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, and more) — coverage, gaps, evidence freshness — and packages it into an auditor-ready export in one click.
- Compliance·7 min readContinuous compliance is a tooling problem, not a process problemEvery compliance program eventually decides it needs to be 'continuous.' Most then try to fix it with process. The actual fix is upstream — in the tools that make evidence freshness a default, not a sprint.
- Compliance·14 min readThe evidence nobody can deleteA legal hold is a promise that a specific piece of evidence will still exist months from now, made to people who will check. This is where you place one in Talarity, what the record has to survive, and — just as important — what a hold does not freeze.
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