FutureFeed Perspectives
Perspectives
Analysis, guidance, and control-level detail from the team helping the Defense Industrial Base achieve, maintain, and prove scalable CMMC compliance.
Playbook
Finishing the Assessment Isn’t the Same as Posting It
A prime asks for your SPRS score, and the answer is binary: either a current score is posted under your CAGE code or it is not. The July suspension of the Phase 2 certification requirement changed who verifies the work. It did not change the expectation that you can show where you stand.
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Controls Delivery
Access Control (AC): 3.1.2
The previous control decided who you trust to come in. This one decides how much you trust them once they are inside. If the first is the front door, this is the set of interior doors: being allowed in the building does not mean you can open every room. Each person should be able to do only the tasks the job requires, and no more.
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Playbook
Your Real Deadline Is Your Prime’s, Not the Rule
Most owners are pacing themselves to the federal rule, waiting for the date a CMMC requirement officially lands in their contracts. There is a second deadline, and it is the one that decides whether you keep the work. It did not come from the government. It came from your biggest customer.
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Controls Delivery
Access Control (AC): 3.1.1
Every person, every automated process, and every device has to earn trust before it is allowed into your environment. The lock on the front door is the familiar image, but the real point is simpler: every connection to your CUI environment should have a reason to be there.
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Playbook
Level 1 Looks Easy. That’s the Trap.
Fifteen requirements instead of a hundred and ten, a self-assessment instead of an outside assessor. So why do capable, well-run contractors still get into trouble at Level 1? Because a short list of requirements and a low-risk position are not the same thing.
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Controls Delivery
Security Assessment (CA): 3.12.1 to 3.12.4
This family is the engine that keeps you compliant after the setup work is done. Assess whether controls actually work, write every gap into a POA&M with an owner and a due date, monitor for drift all year, and keep the SSP current. Skip the loop and everything you built quietly falls out of date.
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Playbook
Does CMMC Even Apply to Me? FCI, CUI, and the Level Question
Ask a company what level it is pursuing and the answer is often, we think Level 1. Ask why, and the room gets quiet. The level question turns on what data you actually handle, and assuming the answer is how capable companies end up building toward the wrong target.
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Controls Delivery
Risk Assessment (RA): 3.11.1, 3.11.2, 3.11.3
Knowing what could hurt you, and acting on it before someone else finds the weak spot first. Three requirements: understand your risk on a regular schedule, scan systems for weaknesses as new ones appear, and fix what you find, worst first. Keep dated records of all three.
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Playbook
What CMMC Actually Costs: Implementation, Operations, and Verification
Implementation builds security. Assessment verifies it. The cost conversation keeps collapsing them into a single number. Pull the total apart and you find five separate buckets. Only one of them is the assessment fee, and most of the rest is yours to control.
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Controls Delivery
Personnel Security (PS): 3.9.1, 3.9.2
Two moments matter most with any employee or contractor: the day they arrive and the day they leave. Screen people for the role before they touch CUI, and when they walk out the door, make sure your systems and information do not walk out with them. Accounts disabled, laptops and badges collected, dated records to prove it.
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Why Security Is a Business Decision
Security gets filed under IT until the day it decides whether you can bid. The contracts you win, the customers who keep you on their supplier list, the liability you carry when something goes wrong: all of it now runs through whether you can prove your security posture.
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Awareness & Training (AT): 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3
Open NIST SP 800-171 and Access Control (3.1) comes before Awareness and Training (3.2). So why start here? Because the control numbers tell you where to find a requirement, not where to begin building your program. Build the people side first, then layer the technical controls on top.
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Company News
FutureFeed Announces Partnership with Teramis to Bring Fully Automated CUI Discovery to the CMMC Ecosystem
Contractors and FutureFeed partners can now identify and validate their CUI boundary automatically, taking the guesswork out of scoping.
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Government Contracting
The Legal Risk of Misrepresenting SPRS Scores
An SPRS score you cannot substantiate is more than a compliance gap. It carries legal exposure that is rarely understood outside legal circles.
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CMMC
Your Holistic CMMC Journey Incorporating FutureFeed
A step-by-step onboarding framework for building a complete, sustainable, assessment-ready compliance program inside the platform.
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Government Contracting
FutureFeed Users: You Are a Step Ahead on CMMC Readiness
NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC are not only requirements. They are a competitive differentiator, and platform users already hold the advantage.
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Government Contracting
Happy CMMC Day
CMMC requirements can now be written into DoD contracts and solicitations. What that milestone means for the Defense Industrial Base.
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Government Contracting
DoW Publishes Final CMMC Rule: A New Era of Accountability in the Defense Supply Chain
The Final Rule folds CMMC into Title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations. A look at the effective dates and the phased rollout that follows.
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CMMC
Scoping: The First Step on Your CMMC Journey
Scoping decisions shape everything that follows. Draw the boundary carefully and the rest of the journey becomes far more predictable.
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Cybersecurity
Mastering Responsibility Matrices
CRMs and SRMs decide who owns which control. Unclear ownership is one of the most common reasons assessments come apart.
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NIST 800-171
Breaking It Down: Why CRMAs Must Implement NIST SP 800-171 Requirements
Contractor Risk Managed Assets are widely misunderstood. A position piece on what CRMAs actually require at Level 2.
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Webinar
The Final CMMC Rule Explained: Key Takeaways
Takeaways from a joint webinar breaking down what the final rule changes, what it leaves alone, and where contractors should focus.
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Webinar
Explorers Series: Mastering Configuration Items
Baseline configurations are not only good practice. You have to show the policy exists and that your organization enforces it.
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Company News
Our Free, Open-Format Q and A Session Keeps Growing
15 Minutes with FutureFeed has outgrown its name. Here is what the sessions cover now, and why users and partners keep showing up.
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Company News
Our Biggest Release of 2024: FutureFeed 6.0
Eighteen months of development, expanded framework support, and a broad set of platform improvements across the compliance workflow.
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Company News
Advancing Compliance Education at FutureFeed
An introduction from the Director of Compliance Education, and the plan for clearer, more practical guidance across the community.
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Conference
FutureFeed at CEIC East 2024: Insights, Innovation, and Looking Ahead
Notes from the Gaylord National Resort, where the CMMC community gathered to compare progress, pressure points, and what comes next.
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