CMMC Level 1 Assessment Guide: A Closer Look

All right, so an assessment guide is a document that assessors will use to guide their CMMC assessment, obviously. But, it is also a guide that the organization seeking certification or OSCs can and should use to prepare for their assessment. The guide will document all of the applicable practices that are relevant to a specific domain as well as the details that the assessor will use to determine whether or not those practices have been effectively implemented. In our last podcast, we mentioned this would be two guides: there is a Level 1 assessment guide, and there is a second guide; it is going to cover levels 2 and 3. This podcast is just going to focus on the Level 1 guide. Now, that said, it is important to keep in mind that CMMC is cumulative. Even though we are only going to discuss the Level 1 Assessment Guide today, pretty much all what we are going to talk about will also be applicable to Levels 2 and 3, because the Level 1practices have to be achieved to successfully achieve Levels 2 or 3 of CMMC.