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Protect your systems beyond software. This guide covers CMMC PE domain controls and provides a pre-built Physical and Environmental Protection policy template to simplify compliance.

A CMMC Personnel Security Policy defines how your organization screens, manages, and removes access for individuals who interact with sensitive systems and data. It ensures only trusted users have the right level of access at all times, reducing insider risk and strengthening overall security.

The Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology helps organizations quantify cybersecurity risk in financial terms, replacing subjective scoring with measurable data. By evaluating the likelihood and impact of potential loss events, FAIR enables better decision-making, stronger risk prioritization, and clearer alignment between technical risks and business outcomes.

A quick overview of version 16.1.0, featuring unified navigation, new compliance frameworks, enhanced risk tracking, and performance improvements across the platform.

This blog explains the requirements for DOD CUI training and how organizations must properly handle Controlled Unclassified Information to stay compliant with federal regulations. It covers key frameworks like 32 CFR Part 2002, outlines contractor responsibilities, and shows how structured training and workflows reduce risk and improve audit readiness.

This blog provides a clear overview of how to build and implement a CMMC Media Protection Policy to secure sensitive data across physical and digital media. It breaks down key controls like media usage, storage, labeling, and sanitization, helping organizations reduce risk and align with CMMC Level 2 requirements.

This blog explains how a CMMC maintenance policy secures system repairs and maintenance activities. It covers vendor control, tool management, and aligning policies with your security plan to reduce risk and stay compliant.

AI adoption is accelerating, but security and governance are struggling to keep up. AIUC-1 provides a practical framework to help organizations manage AI risk, strengthen compliance, and securely scale AI systems in real-world environments.

Learn how to build a strong Incident Response plan that helps your organization detect, contain, and recover from security threats quickly. This guide breaks down key policies, procedures, and testing strategies aligned with CMMC and NIST standards.

This guide explores the "what, why, and how" of FedRAMP training. K2 GRC is here to help you navigate the complexities of the certification process.

A comprehensive guide to Identification and Authentication (IA) policies, outlining how organizations verify user and device identities, enforce secure access controls like MFA, and structure policies to align with CMMC and NIST requirements for stronger cybersecurity and audit readiness.

Learn how an ISO 27001 data retention policy helps organizations manage data securely, define retention periods, and reduce risk while maintaining compliance.

This guide explains what a CUI course catalog is and why it’s essential for organizations handling sensitive government information. It breaks down the key training components, including identification, marking, and reporting, while highlighting how structured programs help meet compliance requirements. The post also shows how platforms like K2 GRC simplify training management and reduce administrative burden.

A SOC 2 bridge letter helps organizations maintain trust between audit periods by documenting the status of internal controls after their last report. It provides stakeholders with assurance that security and compliance measures remain effective, even outside the formal audit window. This guide explains what a bridge letter is, why it matters, and how to use it to support continuous SOC 2 compliance.

This blog explains how to translate Microsoft GCC High FedRAMP CRM responsibilities into CMMC Level 2 requirements using a detailed crosswalk. It breaks down shared responsibility, control inheritance, and how to properly document both in your System Security Plan (SSP). The guide also shows how this process simplifies compliance and helps organizations prepare for CMMC assessments.

Our guide explains what CUI is, how to identify it, and who must do training.

The Audit and Accountability (AU) domain ensures your organization records and reviews system activity to detect threats, support investigations, and meet compliance requirements.

This blog explains the Audit and Accountability (AU) domain under NIST and CMMC, covering logging, monitoring, and policy structure requirements.

Ransomware isn’t just a technical threat heading into 2026, it’s a business risk that demands a unified approach, where leading cybersecurity frameworks work together to translate attacker behavior and control gaps into clear financial impact.

This blog will outline how to build an Awareness and Training policy that satisfies CMMC Level 2.

This blog will outline how to build an Access Control policy that satisfies CMMC Level 2.

We are thrilled to launch K2 GRC 13.0.0! This release introduces foundational changes to our data model, a new authorization system, and significant performance enhancements to make the platform faster and more intuitive.

K2 GRC is a fully integrated, API-first platform that unifies governance, risk, compliance, and training into one system. It delivers real-time visibility, automated evidence collection, cross-framework control mapping, FAIR®-based risk insights, and customizable training to streamline audits and strengthen organizational resilience.

The CMMC Assessment Process (CAP) provides procedures for CMMC Level 2 Assessments. CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organizations conduct assessments of organizations seeking certification (OSCs).

Malware is the most common external threat to information systems. It causes widespread damage and disruption and necessitates extensive recovery efforts. Many of today’s malware threats are stealthy and designed to avoid detection.

Flaw remediation is the most difficult CMMC level one practice. It was the only level one practice on the top 10 other than satisfied requirements.

NIST describes several approaches on how organizations can establish a demilitarized zone (DMZ). This blog will discuss the following topics around NIST SP 800-171 practice 3.13.5

Organizations handling sensitive information must define the external boundary of their system. Establishing internal boundaries helps create a multi-layer defense. Enable monitoring, control traffic and protect communications at each boundary.

NIST SP 800-171 derived three requirements from this part of FIPS 200. The Federal Acquisition Regulation derived one practice from this part of FIPS 200.

Implementing physical security controls is a critical component of safeguarding sensitive information. The NIST physical and environmental protection (PE) domain focuses on physical safeguarding practices.

Media may flow out to vendors for equipment repairs or in paper form through recycle bins. Adversaries may try to retrieve data from media after it leaves the organization. Media protection limits access to system media in both paper and digital forms.

System architecture design and separation techniques may isolate assets that handle sensitive information. Organizations may consider these separated systems external to the system handling sensitive information.

Forbes Advisor reported 68% of Americans changed passwords across accounts due to compromise. Social media and email accounts were the most common compromised passwords...

Identifying accounts and devices is foundational to creating a secure and accountable system. Accounts may have assignments to people and non-person entities...

Organizations should prevent the release of nonpublic information on systems accessible to the public. Systems accessible to the public include websites and social media...

If 3.1.1 authorizes access to the system, 3.1.2 authorizes permissions within the system. The rules of chess, for example, limit the types of functions allowed for each piece...