CMMC L1
The fifteen basic safeguarding requirements from FAR 52.204-21, across six domains. The floor for any contractor handling Federal Contract Information.
Mapped, monitored, and audit-ready.
Every CMMC L1 control has a place in Talarity — with cross-mapping, automated evidence, and continuous validation.
Talarity's pre-built control library covering CMMC L1, with linked evidence, owners, and testing schedules.
Answer once, prove everywhere. Talarity's mapping engine reuses your evidence across every framework you run.
- IAM access reviews and account inventory
- Endpoint inventory and patch status
- Boundary protection and firewall configuration
- Media handling and disposal records
- Physical access logs
Your CMMC L1 dashboard
Every completed CMMC L1 assessment updates this automatically — where you stand now, how that has changed, and which areas need work.
What gets easier with Talarity.
Level 1 is treated as trivial until a self-assessment has to be affirmed in SPRS.
Each requirement is assessed with evidence attached, so the affirmation rests on artifacts rather than recollection.
Contractors who will need Level 2 later start again from zero.
Level 1 requirements are cross-mapped into Level 2 and NIST SP 800-171, so the work carries forward.
Annual re-affirmation arrives with nothing kept from last year.
Every completed assessment is retained and trended, so re-affirmation is a delta rather than a restart.
CMMC L1 — common questions
- What are the six domains?
- Access Control, Identification and Authentication, Media Protection, Physical Protection, System and Communications Protection, and System and Information Integrity.
- Is Level 1 self-assessed?
- Yes — CMMC Level 1 is an annual self-assessment with an affirmation by a company official. Talarity holds the assessment, the evidence and the history behind that affirmation.
- What if we handle CUI as well as FCI?
- Then Level 2 applies. Talarity carries Level 1 answers and evidence into the Level 2 assessment rather than asking for them twice.
Working with CMMC L1
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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