Your CMMC Requirements Guide

Your CMMC Requirements Guide

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A common issue facing many front-line IT / cybersecurity practitioners is that they do not know where to start with CMMC, let alone what path they need to follow to pass a CMMC assessment. There is an enormous amount of "What is CMMC?" guidance on LinkedIn, webinars and on the Internet in general, but there is a lack of practical guidance of HOW you are actually supposed to "do CMMC" in realistic terms.

The CMMC Kill Chain is designed to provide a roadmap that would be usable for (1) anyone starting out or (2) anyone wanting to double check their approach. You can read more about it here - https://complianceforge.com/nist-800-171/nist-800-171-cmmc-kill-chain/.

To learn more about the requirements for CMMC and how to comply with it, you can read more about it here - https://complianceforge.com/compliance/cmmc

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NIST SP 800‑53 R5 Control Families

This release includes a total of 1,189 controls, organized into 20 families:

  1. Access Control
  2. Awareness & Training
  3. Audit & Accountability
  4. Assessment, Authorization & Monitoring
  5. Configuration Management
  6. Contingency Planning
  7. Identification & Authentication
  8. Incident Response
  9. Maintenance
  10. Media Protection
  11. Physical & Environmental Protection
  12. Planning
  13. Program Management
  14. Personnel Security
  15. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Processing & Transparency
  16. Risk Assessment
  17. System & Services Acquisition
  18. System & Communications Protection
  19. System & Information Integrity
  20. Supply Chain Risk Management

This count includes deprecated controls that have been removed or folded into others. Some controls are not categorized under baselines—low, moderate, high, or privacy—per NIST SP 800‑53B.

ComplianceForge provides full 1:1 mapping of all 20 families and their controls in its CDPP documentation.