Advisor to DIB companies?
Who should quit doing business with the DoD?
Step Zero™ shows clients the costs of CMMC* – for a flat fee
*CMMC = Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) program that applies to organizations in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)
Many leading critical infrastructure companies trust SecuriThink.
CMMC is third-party validation of cybersecurity. Who’s ready?
CMMC is a Business Decision
Even after you make the financial decision, in most cases for 6-figures or more, over half the requirements facing Organizations Seeking Assessment focus on business process. Technology is only part of the CMMC decision.
DoD Closing In
Most Defense Industrial Base companies have not fully implemented cybersecurity requirements since 2016 — starting soon the DoD will check before awarding the next contract or extension.
Primes Selecting Subcontractors
Prime contractors need the entire team at the right status to accept an award; some are already excluding from their bidding list subs that aren’t on a path to be done in time.
“If a supplier isn’t going to be certified for 12-15 months, then Leidos will not be able to ‘use them’…the supplier would be ‘off the team’ and ‘not be part of the bid process because we run the risk of not winning that award if they cannot be certified at the time the award is given.’”
JR Williamson, CISO, Leidos
The Step Zero™ Report
Get a proven, reliable estimate – in as little as 3 days.
Flat fee. Verified accuracy. Proprietary process.
Verified Accuracy
We’ve tracked actual costs and validated our estimates against real-world implementations; virtually no one can say that.
Proprietary Process
Step Zero top-down estimates take days – not weeks or months like typical bottom-up approaches.
Your report includes all costs for all phases up front, for a fast, data-driven decision.
Flat Fee
Our flat fee is substantially cheaper than the standard approach. Minimize sunk costs. Make your No-Go decision. And map the path ahead with high visibility (if CMMC gets a green light).
Please note: The Step Zero Report best fits companies doing $25 million or more in DoD work per year.
Finally, see the real numbers.
Up-front budget & schedule
Our top-down estimate gives the client what they need to make a strategic decision earlier in the process.
Flat fee
Our flat fee is substantially cheaper than the standard approach. Minimize sunk costs. Make your No-Go decision. And map the path ahead with high visibility (if CMMC gets a green light).
“Yes And” solution
Get the best of both approaches: strategic leverage and tactical reality checks. The top-down estimate includes getting the bottom-up plan as part of the project.
Know on-going costs up front
The Step Zero report makes on-going maintenance costs part of the initial business decision. Typically, these aren’t calculated until the one-time lift project is wrapping up; that’s often a year or more down the road.
Fast Report
Our top-down estimate takes as little as three days compared to weeks or months for the typical bottom-up approach.
Cash-in on your experience
Our CMMC Data Exchange clients can earn a $5,000 rebate with a thorough debrief at the end of their implementation. It needs to include detailed cost data, which they may not have for many months down the road.
Business decision before significant spending
A timely estimate plus a flat fee means your business decision is better informed yet minimizes sunk costs.
No Strings Attached
For most clients, the report is enough. Primarily offered through a network of trusted advisors, if CMMC gets a green light, it’s usually the trusted advisor who takes over.
Fortune 500 Top Prime
Our process was only available inside of one of the top DoD Prime contractors (a Fortune 500) until now. We verified it on companies ranging in headcount from 50 – 12,000.
Verified Accuracy
We’ve tracked actual costs and validated our estimates against real-world implementations; virtually no one can say that.
OSA Perspective
According to CMMC, the Organization Seeking Assessment (OSA) has full responsibility. This includes accountability for the results of outsourced services. Our estimate reflects this reality. It includes both the vendor and the OSA-side of responsibilities. Our estimate is vendor-neutral, taking an unbiased view. It’s also comprehensive – including those details that vendor proposals usually miss.
Co-Branding
Advisor? You can resell Step Zero as part of your own service offering.
Pull the signal out of the noise.
“There will be people exiting defense work on just gut feelings. It would be good if they could make it an informed decision.”
Executive, Top 5 Prime Contractor
But why SecuriThink?
Trusted. Certified. Ready.
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Earned CMMC Level 2 status equivalent with a perfect score
- Consistent “Superior” rating annually since 2014 from the DoD Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
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50+ years combined experience on Fortune 500 mission-critical projects
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35+ years combined experience in cybersecurity and network engineering
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30+ years combined experience creating the technology business case
- For Owners, Boards of Directors, and CxOs
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Relevant certifications on the team:
- Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in Mechanical Engineering
- Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO)
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- ISO/IEC 20000 – Lead Auditor (LA)
- CMMC* Registered Practitioner (RP)
- CMMC* Certified Professional (CCP)
- CMMC* Certified Assessor (CCA)
- CMMC* Provisional Instructor (CMMC-PI)
*CMMC = Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, an emerging standard of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Mike Warner
Linda Rust
So, who should quit doing business with the DoD?
Companies and advisors that use Step Zero are in a stronger position to make an optimized, strategic decision.
If the organization gives CMMC a green light:
- They move forward with their eyes open and a sound financial forecast.
- They have a map that covers the one-time lift project and at least the first year of on-going maintenance costs.
- Their leadership team avoids the drip, drip, drip water torture of progressive cost discovery built into the bottom-up process.
- They can hit the ground running.
Companies that use a Step Zero report to decide to walk away from DoD work:
- Have typically saved multiple 6-figures or more
- Can sleep better at night knowing they took a serious look at the value proposition before making that call
Know your next move.
We’re talking to DIB contractors all over the country.
There’s no sales pitch. We’re a match or we’re not. Let’s talk strategy.
Grab a free 30-minute consultation.
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