🛡️ Defense Cybersecurity Compliance

CMMC & NIST 800-171

After this course, your team knows exactly what your contracts demand: sort FCI from CUI, scope an enclave that shrinks the assessment boundary, implement and evidence the 110 NIST SP 800-171 requirements, run an honest self-assessment, post the SPRS score, and face a third-party assessor with evidence that holds. Built around the real deadline: Phase 2 certification requirements begin November 10, 2026, and assessor capacity is the bottleneck. QMS Workbench stays with the team to draft the SSP, the POA&M, and the incident response plan.

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 232 CFR Part 170DFARS 252.204-7012/7021FAR 52.204-21

7 modules•33 lessons•1 enrolled•QMS Workbench included

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5+ seats • demo-gated pricing

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✓ QMS Workbench, your permanent compliance partner

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✓ Real scenarios that prepare you before it matters

✓ Updated forever as regulations change

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Other courses give you a certificate. We give you the judgment to use it.

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The Auditor Who Finds What Others Miss

You will not just check boxes. You will follow the work, ask the questions that reveal how things really operate, and write findings that drive actual change. Your audits will be the ones people talk about because they made things better.

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The Credential That Opens Doors

Your ISO 9001 Internal Auditor certificate is not a participation trophy. It proves you can plan, conduct, report, and follow up on audits using real methodology. Employers and registrars recognize this.

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An AI Mentor That Never Leaves

After the course, QMS Workbench stays with you. Ask it about clause interpretation, finding statements, audit planning, or corrective action evaluation. It knows your completed coursework and gives answers that build on what you learned.

QMS Workbench Stays With You

After the course, your AI compliance mentor is available 24/7. Here is what a real conversation looks like.

QMS Workbench

You

Does this supplier evaluation meet clause 8.4.1 requirements?

To fully meet 8.4.1, your supplier evaluation needs three things: defined criteria for selection, defined criteria for evaluation, and defined criteria for re-evaluation. Check that your procedure specifies how you initially qualify suppliers, how you monitor ongoing performance (delivery, quality, responsiveness), and how often you formally re-evaluate. If any of those three are missing or just boilerplate without real metrics, that is a finding.

You

Help me write a finding statement for this calibration gap.

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Ask anything, anytime. "What should I look for when auditing design controls?" "How do I audit management review effectively?" "Help me build a process-based audit checklist"

What You'll Be Able to Do

✓Determine your required CMMC level per contract by sorting FCI from CUI

✓Read the clause stack: FAR 52.204-21, DFARS 7012, 7019, 7020, and 7021 in plain English

✓Scope the assessment boundary with the five asset categories and the enclave strategy

✓Score yourself with the DoD methodology: 110 to minus 203, and fix the 5-point gaps first

✓Run POA&Ms by the real rules: the 88-point floor, 1-point-only items, the 180-day closeout

✓Walk a C3PAO assessment with operating evidence and manage flow-down to your subs

Course Curriculum

Module 1: The Mandate

Why CMMC exists, who must comply, and the clock that decides your contracts

5 lessons

1.The Breach That Broke Trust12 min

2.FCI vs CUI: Figuring Out What You Actually Hold14 min

3.The Regulatory Stack in Plain English14 min

4.The Three CMMC Levels: Which One Your Contracts Demand13 min

5.The Clock You Are On: Phases 1 Through 412 min

Module 2: The 110 Requirements, Part I

Controlling people and access: the families where most points live

5 lessons

1.How the 110 Requirements Are Organized13 min

2.Access Control (3.1): The Biggest Family14 min

3.Identification & Authentication (3.5): Where MFA Lives14 min

4.Awareness & Training (3.2) and Personnel Security (3.9)13 min

5.Physical Protection (3.10) and Media Protection (3.8)14 min

Module 3: The 110 Requirements, Part II

Controlling systems and data: configuration, encryption, logging, and patching

5 lessons

1.Configuration Management (3.4): Baselines and Change Control14 min

2.System and Communications Protection (3.13): Boundaries and Encryption15 min

3.System and Information Integrity (3.14): Patching, Malware, Monitoring13 min

4.Audit and Accountability (3.3): Logging That Survives an Assessor14 min

5.Maintenance (3.7) Plus a Families I-II Consolidation Checkpoint15 min

Module 4: The 110 Requirements, Part III

Managing risk and response: assessments, incidents, and the System Security Plan

4 lessons

1.Risk Assessment (3.11) and Security Assessment (3.12)13 min

2.Incident Response (3.6) and the 72-Hour DIBNet Clock14 min

3.The System Security Plan: The One Document That Cannot Be POA&M'd14 min

4.Policies, Procedures, Evidence: What Implemented Means to an Assessor15 min

Module 5: Scoping

Shrink the problem before you solve it: asset categories, enclaves, MSPs, and cloud

4 lessons

1.The Five Asset Categories and the Assessment Boundary14 min

2.The Enclave Strategy: Shrinking the Problem14 min

3.MSPs, MSSPs, and Cloud: Other People's Computers14 min

4.Building Your Asset Inventory and Network Diagram14 min

Module 6: Scoring, SPRS, and Self-Assessment

The scoring math, the POA&M rules, and the affirmation that carries legal weight

5 lessons

1.The DoD Scoring Methodology: 110 to Minus 20314 min

2.Conducting an Honest Self-Assessment14 min

3.POA&Ms Under CMMC: The 88-Point Floor and the 180-Day Clock14 min

4.Submitting to SPRS and the Annual Affirmation14 min

5.The False Claims Act: What a Careless Affirmation Costs14 min

Module 7: The Certification Assessment and Life After

C3PAOs, assessment week, Conditional to Final, flow-down, and staying audit-ready

5 lessons

1.Choosing and Contracting a C3PAO13 min

2.Inside the Assessment: What Assessors Ask, What Evidence They Accept14 min

3.Conditional vs Final Status, Closeout, and the Three-Year Cycle13 min

4.Flow-Down: Your Subcontractors Are Your Problem Now13 min

5.Beyond Level 2: Level 3, Rev 3 on the Horizon, and Staying Audit-Ready14 min

Who Is This Course For?

→Quality and compliance managers at defense suppliers handed CMMC with no IT background

→IT managers and MSP liaisons who own the 110 requirements day to day

→Owners and GMs deciding what CMMC readiness costs and when to start

→Facility security officers and Affirming Officials who sign the SPRS affirmation

Audit-Ready

In Weeks

Lifetime

Workbench Access

30+

Years Experience

30+

Years Experience

60-80%

Less Than Classroom

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xWatch content once, forget 80% in 30 days

xNo support when real problems hit

xGeneric content, not your industry

x,200-,500 per seat + travel costs

xCertificate is the finish line

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+Learn + implement + ask + adapt continuously

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Ask questions while you implement. Not generic AI. Trained on your standard, your industry, real audit scenarios.

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