CMMC L3
Twenty-four enhanced requirements drawn from NIST SP 800-172, across ten domains — the tier for contractors on the programmes most likely to be targeted by advanced persistent threats.
Mapped, monitored, and audit-ready.
Every CMMC L3 control has a place in Talarity — with cross-mapping, automated evidence, and continuous validation.
Talarity's pre-built control library covering CMMC L3, with linked evidence, owners, and testing schedules.
Answer once, prove everywhere. Talarity's mapping engine reuses your evidence across every framework you run.
- Privileged access and session monitoring
- Threat-hunting and detection coverage records
- Configuration baselines and drift reports
- Incident response exercise results
- Supply-chain and component provenance records
Your CMMC L3 dashboard
Every completed CMMC L3 assessment updates this automatically — where you stand now, how that has changed, and which areas need work.
What gets easier with Talarity.
Level 3 requirements assume capabilities that are hard to evidence — threat hunting, advanced monitoring, resilience against a determined adversary.
Each enhanced requirement declares the artifacts that substantiate it, so the assessment shows what is proven and what is asserted.
Level 2 and Level 3 are run as separate programmes.
Level 3 builds on the Level 2 baseline in the same system, sharing evidence rather than duplicating it.
A government-led assessment leaves no room for gaps discovered on the day.
Gaps surface continuously as evidence ages or fails, not at the assessment.
CMMC L3 — common questions
- How does Level 3 differ from Level 2?
- Level 2 covers the 110 requirements of NIST SP 800-171. Level 3 adds a selected set of enhanced requirements from NIST SP 800-172 aimed at advanced persistent threats, and is assessed by the government rather than a C3PAO.
- Do we need Level 2 first?
- Yes. Level 3 is additive to the Level 2 baseline, which is why Talarity carries Level 2 evidence forward instead of asking for it again.
- Which domains does it cover?
- Ten, including Access Control, Awareness and Training, Configuration Management, Identification and Authentication, Incident Response, Personnel Security, Risk Assessment, Security Assessment, System and Communications Protection, and System and Information Integrity.
Working with CMMC L3
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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