CMMC Readiness & Compliance Training

For IT leaders: DoD contract eligibility depends on demonstrating CMMC compliance, and many organizations lack staff who can translate NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 requirements into documented, assessor-ready evidence. This course gives your team a shared, plain-language foundation so compliance work doesn’t fall on one overextended person.

Role fit: Built for IT managers, compliance officers, project leads, and IT Practitioners supporting DoD contracts. It is beginner level, so no prior CMMC experience is required. Teams handling only Federal Contract Information can focus on the Level 1 self-assessment skills. Teams handling CUI should complete the Level 2 and 3 content.

Time investment: About six hours per learner across six skills. That is manageable alongside daily work over one or two weeks.

Risk and audit readiness: Learners work through all 14 domains, common implementation and documentation pitfalls, System Security Plan documentation, and scoping diagrams that show where FCI and CUI flow.

Change management: The course frames compliance as ongoing work, not a one-time project. It covers annual risk assessments, role-based security training, and monitoring DoD, DFARS, and FAR updates. It also covers building a security culture through short, periodic training rather than one annual session.

The Introduction to CMMC skill lets Team Leads preview the content before assigning the full course.

IT teams complete this training to turn CMMC requirements into evidence an assessor can verify, so contract eligibility doesn't hinge on guesswork. The course works through realistic scenarios, including Bangwiz Limited, a firearms manufacturer splitting DoD and public work across a manufacturing facility and an office, with CUI accessed over VPN and Office 365 excluded from CUI by policy. Your team will see how to scope that environment, diagram it, and document it.

• Tighter assessment scope: Team Leads learn to use network and data flow diagrams with color-coded in-scope areas to show exactly where FCI and CUI live and travel, reducing scope creep and assessor confusion.
• Audit-ready documentation: IT Practitioners build a System Security Plan (SSP) starting at Level 1, recording each control as met with notes and referenced evidence, ready to carry forward to Levels 2 and 3.
• Fewer common findings: Your team learns to spot pitfalls like plaintext data transmission and poorly defined network boundaries, and how firewall, encryption, and segmentation configs serve as proof.
• Sustained compliance: Compliance owners get a maintenance checklist covering regular risk assessments, annual risk-register review, role-based security training, and monitoring for DoD, NIST SP 800-171, and DFARS/FAR changes that could affect scope.

Knowledge

• What CMMC 2.0 is, why the DoD created it, and how it applies to contractors handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
• How CMMC Levels 1, 2, and 3 differ, including how Level 2 maps to the 110 controls in NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 and how Level 3 adds requirements from NIST SP 800-172, including threat hunting
• The purpose of each of the 14 domains, such as Access Control, Awareness and Training, Security Assessment, and System and Communications Protection, plus common pitfalls in each
• Common CMMC compliance roles and the responsibilities each one carries
• What assessors expect as evidence, including network and data flow diagrams, firewall and encryption configurations, training records, and other supporting documentation
• How CMMC, NIST SP 800-171/172, DFARS, and FAR updates can change scope over time

Ability

• Define assessment scope by identifying in-scope systems, CUI and FCI repositories, and network boundaries
• Organize documentation and supporting evidence for control implementation, including implementation notes and references to relevant diagrams, configurations, and records
• Create network and data flow diagrams that show segmentation, in-scope areas, and how CUI moves across VPN and encrypted connections
• Work through the steps of a Level 1 self-assessment from start to finish, including submission
• Avoid common audit mistakes, such as transmitting data in plain text or leaving network boundaries poorly defined
• Sustain Level 2 and Level 3 compliance with role-based security training, annual risk assessments, risk register updates, and ongoing monitoring of regulatory changes