Our Story

Founded in 2014 in Los Angeles, we were a product of UCLA Anderson’s entrepreneurial accelerator.

Our founding members were mostly prior military and Federal Government contractors and had the vision to provide military grade managed security services to small businesses, mostly professional services firms requiring high security. Think accountants, attorneys, start ups, dentists, etc. that served A-List celebrity types in Southern California or had a larger partner requiring them to get secure.

We were a bit early in the game for strictly managed security services, so we decided to do IT and security in a turnkey zero trust service offering.

We partnered with incident response firms who would bring us in after a breach. While they were investigating and doing digital forensics to determine the cause of the breach, we’d migrate customers to a completely new technology stack in the cloud and secure them, usually the same week we were contacted. 

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    Expanding into Compliance & Microsoft Partnerships

    From there we expanded into DFARS clients that were self-attesting to their cybersecurity and compliance with NIST 800-171, expanding our Microsoft partnerships into one of the original AOS-G and Azure Government partners, authorized to resell M365 GCC, GCC-High and Azure Government.

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    Introduction to CMMC

    In 2019, one of our board members, Wes Gavins introduced us to CMMC.

    At the time he was the CISO for NASA, JPL who is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) funded by Congress. He sat on the same committees with the CISOs for John Hopkins, APL and Carnegie Melon, SEI who were the original creators of the CMMC 1.0 standard.

    See the market opportunity and the alignment with our background and current services, we set a strategy to become both an authorized C3PAO and CMMC Managed Service Provider. 

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    Shaping the CMMC Ecosystem

    As one of the original stakeholders of CMMC, we help shape and influence it

    We had four of the original ~380 provisional assessors certified by the CyberAB, hosted one of the first ever conferences with the Cyber AB, Nation Archives, DoD and Carnegie Melon back in June 2020, and were one of the original authorized C3PAOs in June of 2022.

    We conducted one the first pilot Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessments with the DoD during the CMMC pilot period.

    Our CEO’s LinkedIn handle is even /CMMC (look him up, that’s how early we were to the CMMC ecosystem).

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    Industry Leadership Today

    Today, we’ve built ourselves into the number one combined CMMC managed service provider and authorized C3PAO.

    We are one of the few MSPs to be CMMC Level 2 certified, and have been reauthorized for another 3 years by the DoD and Cyber AB to conduct CMMC Level 2 certification assessments.

    We continue to help shape CMMC and are proud of our top rating and gold status on the CMMC Marketplace.