Welcome to the CMMC Compliance Hub by Secureframe

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification provides a standardized framework for implementing, maintaining, and proving you have strong cybersecurity controls in place to safeguard federal data. For defense contractors and subcontractors, meeting contractual CMMC cybersecurity requirements is necessary to continue doing business with the Department of Defense and prime contractors. But the importance of CMMC goes beyond contract-eligibility and beyond compliance.

At Secureframe, we’re passionate about making robust cybersecurity simpler to achieve, maintain, and prove over time for organizations in both the private and public sector. Doing so helps protect sensitive information that's essential to American businesses and national security, prevent costly security incidents, improve efficiency and innovation, and unlock business growth and barriers to working with the federal government. We built this hub to explain the underlying principles, compliance requirements, steps, and benefits of the CMMC program and provide free resources and tools to help companies with limited time, budget, and internal expertise navigate the process to enhance their own cybersecurity and operational resilience and that of the entire defense supply chain.

Editor's note: If you came here to prepare for a C3PAO certification assessment, that requirement was put on hold on July 13, 2026 pending a 60-day review, but your contractual obligation to protect federal data isn't. NIST SP 800-171, the underlying security standard of CMMC Level 2, remains required under DFARS 252.204-7012. CMMC Level 1 and 2 self-assessment requirements still apply, and an accurate SPRS score and senior official's annual affirmation are pre-award verification requirements that carry legal weight. The readiness work in this hub is exactly what you should be doing now.