NUCLEUS FOR CMMC
Operationalize Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
Move faster with continuous risk assessment, automated POA&M processing, and assessor-ready evidence.
A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REQUIREMENT
The Need for CMMC 2.0
CMMC 2.0 is the Department of War (formerly Department of Defense) framework for protecting Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). The program is expected to begin appearing in contracts in 2025, following completion of the DoD’s rulemaking process, with phased enforcement continuing through 2028. For contractors, success depends on the ability to achieve the following.
Continuously monitor and reduce cyber risk.
Manage and remediate Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) efficiently.
Provide verifiable evidence to demonstrate compliance to DoD assessors.
How Nucleus Aligns to CMMC Control Families
Nucleus helps you meet core security controls by operationalizing and centralizing evidence, monitoring weaknesses, prioritizing risk-based fixes, and proving outcomes across teams and systems.
Risk Assessment (RA)
Unify vulnerability, asset, and threat intel to quantify risk, prioritize exploitable exposures, and trigger remediation with audit-ready evidence.
System and Information Integrity (SI)
Continuously detect and prioritize exploitable weaknesses across scanners, enrich with threat intel, and route and verify fixes so emerging threats are contained quickly.
Configuration Management (CM)
Expose misconfigurations, orchestrate remediation, and document closure for assessors.
Incident Response (IR)
Automatically turn critical findings into tracked incidents with owners, actions, and documented resolution.
Audit and Accountability (AU)
Preserve end-to-end records of findings, ownership, SLAs, and remediation, with exportable evidence for assessor-ready evidence.
Security Assessment (CA)
Map findings to NIST 800-171 controls, generate & manage POA&Ms, and provide live evidence of progress against requirements for assessors.
Assessor-Ready Evidence with Nucleus
- A single, deduplicated inventory of affected assets and vulnerabilities, with source traceability.
- Prioritization logic that factors exploitability, exposure, and business impact.
- Control-mapped POA&Ms linked to tickets, owners, and due dates.
- Evidence packages: timestamps, comments, artifacts, and automated closure checks.
KPIs to Prove Progress
- Time to remediate known-exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) and other high-risk items.
- Percentage of POA&Ms closed on time.
- Reduction in critical/open vulnerabilities across in-scope assets.
- Mean time to remediate (MTTR) by team or system; evidence freshness (days since last update).
Government-Grade Deployment
Nucleus is FedRAMP Moderate authorized with true multitenancy. It supports both SaaS deployment on AWS Gov Cloud and on-premises, self-hosted options to meet agency and contractor security requirements.
CMMC Readiness in Action
Watch the on-demand recording of our webinar with Carahsoft.
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