A CMMC Level 2 certification assessment is conducted by a C3PAO — an organization authorized by the Cyber AB. They decide whether each practice is met. Cyberneza's job is everything before that: validating the scope, closing the gaps, and making sure the evidence demonstrates the practice is actually performed rather than merely intended. Led by a Cyber AB CMMC Registered Practitioner. Veteran-owned and SAM.gov registered.
Both are cheap to fix while the date is still open and expensive once it is not.
Every system that stores, processes, or transmits CUI is in the assessment boundary — and a boundary drawn loosely pulls in mail servers, file shares, laptops, and cloud tenants that never needed to be there. Each one then has to satisfy all 110 practices. Narrowing the boundary is the single largest lever on cost and duration, and it has to happen before implementation, not after. How a CUI enclave narrows scope →
A policy saying accounts are reviewed quarterly is not evidence that they were. An assessor looks for the artifact a performed practice leaves behind — the ticket, the log, the signed record, the configuration export — and dated across a period, not generated the week before. Evidence gathered late tends to prove only that you gathered evidence.
Not every practice is eligible to sit on a Plan of Action & Milestones, and the ones that are carry conditions and a closeout clock. Treating the POA&M as a place to defer anything inconvenient is a decision made at the wrong time by the wrong party.
Trace where CUI genuinely enters, rests, and leaves. Define the assessment boundary and the asset categories, and document why each system is in or out — because that reasoning is itself something the assessor reads.
A System Security Plan describing your real architecture, control by control, with the implementation statement tied to the system that actually performs it.
Identify the artifact each practice produces, confirm it exists and is dated, and organize it so an assessor can find it without a guided tour.
All 110 practices reviewed against implementation and evidence, with gaps separated into fix-before, POA&M-eligible, and not-applicable-and-here-is-why.
A rehearsal in the assessment's own shape — the questions asked, the evidence requested, the people interviewed — so the first time your team answers an assessor is not the real one.
Score calculation and submission support, plus coordinating scheduling and logistics with the C3PAO you select. We do not select one for you or take a fee for the referral.
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A CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization — authorized by the Cyber AB to conduct official Level 2 certification assessments. Only a C3PAO can assess you and issue a certification result.
No. Our founder is a Cyber AB CMMC Registered Practitioner, which is a readiness and consulting credential. We prepare organizations for assessment and coordinate with a C3PAO; we do not perform assessments or issue certifications.
Commonly the scope, not the controls. A boundary drawn too wide pulls in systems that never needed assessing, and evidence describing intent cannot demonstrate a practice is performed.
Before the assessment is scheduled. Scope decisions change what has to be implemented, and implementation takes longer than documentation.
Tell us where CUI lives and what you have documented so far. You will get back a written view of your scope, the gaps that matter first, and whether the right next step is boundary work, implementation, or a mock assessment.
