Your prime is asking. Answer in months, not years.
The strategy comes from our CMMC Level 2 Playbook. The speed comes from our secure enclave: 65+ of the 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls inherited on Day 1, assessment-ready in under 6 months — while the playbook's cost-recovery strategy works on getting your investment back.
Strategy + speed in one engagement · You don't become a cybersecurity company — we bring one to you · Built for what DoW says it wants: small contractors staying in the DIB without the paralyzing cost
NIST SP 800-171 controls satisfied by moving CUI work into the Lionfish secure enclave:
Sources: NIST SP 800-171 · DoD CIO CMMC · DFARS 252.204-7021
Two roads to certified. One gets there before the deadline.
Watch the difference between building 110 controls yourself and inheriting 65+ from Day 1:
Lionfish Rapid Deployment ← under 6 months
Enclave migration → ~10 residual controls → evidence & SSP → C3PAO-ready. While your competitors are still scoping, you're scheduling your assessment.
DIY control-by-control build 12–18+ months, before the C3PAO backlog
Gap assessment → procurement → 110 implementations → documentation — under today's government-led audit regime, then the assessor queue the moment Phase 2 resumes.
Controls the enclave inherits for you
Handled by the environment the moment your CUI work moves in:
- Encryption at rest and in transit — FIPS-validated
- Access control, MFA, and session management
- Audit logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Configuration baselines and patch management
- Backup, recovery, and media protection
What's left — and we manage it with you
The organizational controls no environment can do alone:
- Your policies and procedures (we draft, you approve)
- Personnel security and training cadence
- Incident response roles on your side
- Physical protection where CUI is handled
Speed without strategy leaves money on the table.
Rapid Deployment gets you ready. The Playbook gets you paid back — cost categorization, indirect-rate strategy, KO conversations, and the clause leverage that can turn certification spend into recovered dollars. Both open in the same briefing. And with third-party audits now voluntary, an assessment-ready sub stands out to primes like never before.
From "our prime is asking" to "we're assessment-ready"
Briefing & Scope (free, 30 min)
Your flow-down clauses, your CUI boundary, your timeline — and whether the enclave fits. Playbook strategy included from minute one.
Enclave Migration
Your CUI work moves into the secure environment. 65+ controls inherited; the residual ~10 get a managed plan with owners and dates.
Assessment-Ready & Recovering
Defendable SPRS score, SSP, evidence book — C3PAO-ready in under 6 months, with the reimbursement strategy running in parallel.
Book your Rapid Deployment briefing.
30 minutes with our engineering lead: your clauses, your boundary, your fastest defensible path to certified — and how the playbook gets the cost back.
Scoping details you share are held in corporate confidence. Briefings are closed-loop sessions with our engineering lead.