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"Tentacle is solving a core problem in our industry – capturing and communicating information about security posture. Rather than spending countless hours filling out and emailing custom spreadsheets, Tentacle is revolutionizing how security assessments are performed. Tentacle is doing for information security what the common application did for college admissions."

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What Is CMMC?

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a unified standard for implementing cybersecurity across the defense industrial base (DIB) supply chain. The CMMC framework combines various cybersecurity standards and best practices.

Get CMMC assessment-ready fast with Tentacle

Build your security program on Tentacle using controls mapped to CMMC. Tentacle recommends key policies, processes, and procedures needed for CMMC to help you streamline the assessment process.

CMMC Considerations

Primary Goal

Aligning with CMMC helps enhance the cybersecurity posture of the defense industrial base (DIB) supply chain and to ensure that contractors and subcontractors are adequately protecting sensitive information related to national security.

Validating Security

CMMC provides validation that a contractor has implemented appropriate cybersecurity controls and practices to protect sensitive information related to national security.

Assessment Effort Level

Tentacle helps your organization navigate the 5 levels of cybersecurity maturity within CMMC, ensuring that you understand how your security program aligns with the framework. The levels build upon one another, with each requiring increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity controls and practices.

Who typically adheres to CMMC?

All organizations that do business with the Department of Defense (DoD) and are part of the defense industrial base (DIB) supply chain, including prime contractors and subcontractors, will need to adhere to the CMMC requirements.