// SECURITY CONSULTING

Security that holds up under assessment.

If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information or contract with the Department of Defense, CMMC 2.0 isn't optional. We help organizations prepare — documenting their environment, closing gaps against NIST SP 800-171, and building the secure SDLC practices that hold up under scrutiny.

We also do the work that matters before assessment is on the table: architecture review, penetration testing, and helping development teams build secure software from the first commit.

Engage with us
Discovery call
30 minutes · no commitment
Gap assessment
Fixed scope · 2–3 weeks
Remediation engagement
Custom scope · ongoing
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// CMMC 2.0

CMMC 2.0 readiness, end to end

01 · ASSESS

Compliance gap assessment

Structured review against the 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls. Documented findings, risk ratings, and a prioritized roadmap to close each gap.

02 · DOCUMENT

SSP and POA&M development

System Security Plan and Plan of Action & Milestones — the foundation documents every CMMC assessment depends on, built to assessor-grade quality.

03 · REMEDIATE

Remediation roadmaps

Sequenced, scoped, and budgeted remediation plans — built so leadership knows what's getting fixed, by when, and what it costs.

A note on RPO status. Strickland Consulting is working toward Registered Provider Organization certification through the Cyber-AB, with a Registered Practitioner credential in progress. Until certification is complete, we operate as a consulting partner — providing readiness work alongside, not in place of, formal C3PAO assessment.
// BEYOND CMMC

Security work that doesn't wait for an audit

Penetration testing

External, internal, and web application testing — methodology-driven engagements producing findings you can actually act on. No fluff, no irrelevant CVE dumps.

Security architecture review

Independent review of your application, network, and cloud architecture — identifying weak points before they become incidents, and aligning architecture with the controls your industry requires.

Secure SDLC consulting

For in-house development teams: threat modeling, code review practices, dependency hygiene, and the kind of pipeline controls that catch security issues before they ship.

Compliance gap assessments

NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, and related frameworks. Structured assessment, documented findings, prioritized remediation — without the consulting-firm theater.

// PROCESS

How an engagement runs

A typical engagement runs four weeks from kickoff to findings, then transitions into open-ended remediation work scoped against the gaps we surface.

01
WEEK 1

Scoping

Define the environment, identify CUI flows, agree on assessment boundaries.

02
WEEKS 2–3

Assessment

Interviews, control review, evidence gathering, technical inspection.

03
WEEK 4

Findings

Documented gaps, risk ratings, prioritized roadmap, leadership readout.

04
ONGOING

Remediation

Custom-scoped engagement to close gaps, document evidence, prepare for assessment.

// WHY WORK WITH US

We've actually built the software we're securing

Most security consultants come from audit. We come from engineering — twenty-five-plus years building production software across every major stack, including the integration work and ERP builds that touch the most sensitive data in a business.

That means when we flag a finding, we can also tell you the three reasonable ways to fix it. And when we recommend a control, we know what it actually costs to implement.

EXPERIENCE
25+ years shipping production software
STACK
10+ languages, three major clouds
FRAMEWORKS
NIST 800-171, 800-53, CMMC 2.0

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