CMMC L2 COMPLIANCE SERVICES
Agile IT employs CCAs who apply the same standard to your implementation that they’re credentialed to apply in official CMMC Level 2 C3PAO assessments. That means your environment isn’t built to a checklist interpretation of NIST 800-171 — it’s built to what assessors look for when they arrive. No second engagements, rework, or restarting the timeline because something didn’t hold under scrutiny.
Outcomes like those don’t happen by accident. They’re the result of getting CMMC sequencing right from the beginning. That’s what CCA-led implementation is designed to address.
110
NIST 800-171 controls across 14 control families
CCA-led
Implementation by credentialed assessors
Nov 2026
C3PAO certification required for applicable contracts
3 yrs
Certification cycle- with annual affirmation required
Most organizations that engage Agile IT have already taken steps. Microsoft security defaults are enabled. Identity Secure Score items have been addressed. Someone has touched the tenant configuration. That work isn’t wasted, but it isn’t a CMMC stage.
Security defaults and Secure Score are Microsoft’s baseline recommendations for general security hygiene. They weren’t designed around NIST 800-171 control requirements, CUI boundary documentation, or the evidence structure a C3PAO assessor will evaluate. Work done without that context creates a starting point, not a position in the sequence.
Before the right work can begin, the environment has to be confirmed, the stage identified, and the work mapped to the right standard.
That’s where the sequence starts.
That answer determines everything that follows: which environment is right, what needs to be built, what needs to move, and what needs to be maintained. Agile IT works through three areas of service, sequenced around what the assessment will evaluate.
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Environment build and configuration
Most CMMC Level 2 organizations operating in Microsoft environments end up in GCC High or GCC. The right choice depends on what kind of CUI flows through the organization, contract requirements, and what DFARS 252.204-7012 obligates. Once that decision is made, Agile IT builds and configures the tenant to CMMC Level 2 standards (not general security hygiene or Secure Score recommendations, but the specific configurations that hold under C3PAO assessor review).
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Migration and business continuity
Moving from a commercial Microsoft environment into GCC or GCC High is not a technical event. It’s a business continuity decision. Email, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive: how those move, in what order, and for which users determines whether the organization keeps operating through the transition. Agile Ascend manages the process so the migration doesn’t become a disruption.
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RPO services and ongoing compliance
As a Registered Provider Organization (RPO), Agile IT supports organizations through the full compliance lifecycle: gap assessments, SSP development, policy documentation, evidence structure, and the development of an ongoing risk management program. Certification isn’t the finish line. The DoD requires annual affirmation of continued compliance, and the evidence that supports it must be current and maintained, not assembled at the last minute.
Getting that right starts with understanding where you are. Fill out the form below and we’ll figure it out together.
CMMC Level 2 applies to organizations that handle Controlled Unclassified Information under DoD contracts. It requires implementing all 110 security controls from NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2 across 14 control families. Those controls cover access management, audit logging, incident response, configuration management, and more. Meeting them requires decisions, documentation, and evidence, not just technical configuration.
For most organizations handling CUI, yes. Beginning November 10, 2026, C3PAO-assessed Level 2 certification becomes a condition of contract award for applicable solicitations. Self-attestation is no longer sufficient for many contracts. Organizations that haven’t scheduled a C3PAO engagement and aren’t on a clear path to certification are operating on a timeline that gets harder to manage every week.
Not always, but most organizations handling CUI in a Microsoft environment end up there. CMMC Level 2 doesn’t mandate a specific platform. What it mandates is that any cloud service provider storing, processing, or transmitting CUI meets FedRAMP Moderate equivalency under DFARS 252.204-7012. For organizations handling ITAR or EAR-controlled CUI, GCC High is typically required. For others, the right environment depends on how CUI flows through the organization and what the contract requires. That’s one of the first things we work through.
Certified CMMC Assessors are the individuals credentialed to conduct official C3PAO assessments. At Agile IT, those same credentialed professionals lead your implementation. That means your environment isn’t built to a general interpretation of NIST 800-171. It’s built to the standard assessors apply when they arrive. The decisions made early in your engagement are made by people who know exactly how assessors will evaluate them. That’s what keeps implementations from having to be revisited before assessment day.
Most CMMC compliance providers can tell you what the 110 controls require. Agile IT has Certified CMMC Assessors on staff who build implementations to the standard they’re credentialed to evaluate. That’s a meaningful distinction. It means scope decisions, evidence structure, and configuration choices are made with assessor-level precision from the start, not reviewed and adjusted later when options are narrower. We also support organizations across the full compliance lifecycle, from environment build and migration through certification and ongoing compliance management. The goal isn’t to get you across the finish line once. It’s to make sure you stay there.
Being in GCC High satisfies a hosting requirement. It doesn’t satisfy all of the controls of NIST 800-171. Conditional access policies, audit log retention, identity governance, CUI boundary documentation, SSP development, and evidence structure all require decisions and documentation beyond the platform itself. What we commonly see is a correctly hosted environment where the decisions behind the configuration haven’t been documented in a way that holds under C3PAO review. The platform is the starting point, not the finish line.
Most general MSPs aren’t built for CMMC Level 2. Agile IT is. We can work alongside your current MSP or instead of them. The first conversation determines which makes more sense for your organization.
It depends on where the organization starts: current environment, existing documentation, scope complexity, and how CUI flows through the business. What we don’t do is promise a fixed timeline that requires shortcuts. Organizations that rush to a deadline often arrive at assessment with decisions that haven’t been pressure-tested. The goal isn’t to finish fast. It’s to arrive at assessment with a defensible position and not have to do it again.
A gap assessment surfaces where the work begins. Agile IT is the compliance partner that works with you through your gap assessment and every stage that follows, validating whether decisions behind controls are defensible, building the environment to the standard assessors apply, structuring evidence for review, and maintaining compliance after certification.
Certification is valid for three years, but the DoD requires annual affirmation of continued compliance. That affirmation has to be supported by current, maintained evidence, not assembled retroactively. The controls that got you certified have to keep operating and changes to the environment have to be documented as they happen. AgileThrive is built around that reality: ongoing compliance management so the posture you demonstrated at assessment is the posture you can attest to every year.
Defense contractors, government agencies, and regulated organizations operating under defined compliance requirements (especially those handling CUI).
