Ongoing Compliance Monitoring
Stay audit-ready every day, not just on assessment day
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Overview
Achieving compliance is a milestone. Maintaining it is a discipline. PCShards provides ongoing compliance monitoring services that keep your organization audit-ready year-round — tracking control effectiveness, validating configurations, reviewing policies, and ensuring your documentation stays current as your environment evolves.
Compliance drift is one of the biggest risks defense contractors face after certification. Staff changes, system updates, new applications, and process modifications can quietly erode your security posture. Our continuous monitoring program catches these changes before they become assessment findings.
We combine automated scanning with regular human reviews to provide comprehensive compliance coverage. Automated tools catch configuration drift and vulnerability exposure in real time, while our analysts review policies, procedures, and evidence packages on a scheduled cadence to ensure everything remains accurate and complete.
What's Included
Everything you need, nothing you don't.
Continuous Control Validation
Automated and manual validation that your security controls remain properly implemented and operating effectively across your compliance boundary.
Vulnerability Management
Ongoing vulnerability scanning and remediation tracking to ensure exploitable weaknesses are identified and addressed before they become findings.
Policy & Procedure Reviews
Scheduled reviews of your security policies and procedures to ensure they remain accurate, current, and aligned with regulatory changes.
POA&M Management
Active tracking and management of your Plan of Action & Milestones, ensuring open items are remediated on schedule and properly documented.
SSP Maintenance
Your System Security Plan is a living document. We update it as your environment changes to ensure it always reflects your current implementation.
Annual Assessment Preparation
When your annual assessment approaches, we conduct a readiness review, refresh your evidence packages, and prepare your team for the assessor.
Who It's For
Defense contractors that have achieved CMMC certification and need to maintain compliance posture through continuous monitoring and periodic reassessment.
Our Approach
A proven methodology tailored to your needs.
Monitoring Baseline
We establish a baseline of your current compliance posture — controls, configurations, documentation, and evidence — as the starting point for ongoing monitoring.
Automated Scanning
We deploy automated scanning tools that continuously check your environment for configuration drift, vulnerabilities, and control failures.
Scheduled Reviews
Our analysts conduct regular reviews of your policies, procedures, SSP, and evidence packages on a defined cadence aligned to your assessment timeline.
Reporting & Remediation
We deliver regular compliance status reports and work with your team to remediate any findings before they become assessment issues.
Assessment Support
When your annual or triennial assessment arrives, we provide full preparation and day-of support to ensure a smooth experience.
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Let's discuss how we can help your business. Reach out for a free consultation.