We’re Practitioners, Not Generalists

Azm Solutions was built specifically for the Defense Industrial Base. We focus on CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, ITAR, HIPAA, and SOC2 for contractors and regulated organizations. That focus is intentional. Broad generalists get people failed assessments.

ABOUT OUR FIRM

Why I Built This

Our team has been in the CMMC space since 2020 — when the requirement was still DFARS 252.204-7012 and most contractors didn’t know what CUI stood for. We didn’t come to compliance because it became a market opportunity. We were already here, working through the original framework, the 1.0 rollout, the 2.0 revision, and the Final Rule. That history matters when you’re advising a manufacturer on decisions that affect their contracts.

We focus where the complexity is highest: defense manufacturers, aerospace suppliers, and construction firms with DoD facility or design obligations. These aren’t organizations with large IT departments or dedicated compliance staff. They’re businesses where the shop floor manager, the owner, and the IT provider all need to understand their role — and where the compliance gap is rarely just technical.

That’s the point most people miss. Technical controls account for roughly 60–65% of CMMC. The rest is organizational — documentation, accountability, and demonstrating that what you say you do is what you actually do. Compliance, by definition, is that accountability. It’s not a system configuration. It’s a business operating discipline.

CMMC is a team sport. Your IT provider handles the technical controls. Your operations team owns physical access and procedures. HR owns personnel screening. Leadership owns the risk decisions. What Azm Solutions brings is the compliance framework that ties every player’s role together — so the technical implementation and the organizational accountability move in the same direction.

In April 2026, we presented a 3-hour breakout session on managing CUI on the shop floor at CS5 West — the official conference of the Cyber AB. That session addressed the specific challenge defense manufacturers face: how do you handle Controlled Unclassified Information in a production environment that wasn’t designed for it? The response led to two invitations: we’re bringing the same workshop to the CMMC Midwest Fall Conference in Tulsa, and presenting again at CS5 East in October 2026.

We don’t work in every compliance vertical. We work in this one — and we’ve been working in it long enough to be the ones teaching it.

OUR METHODOLOGY

What an Engagement With Us Looks Like

Every engagement starts with Scoping — and that’s intentional. In our experience, roughly 95% of organizations skip it. They jump straight to implementing security controls, writing policies, and building their SSP. The problem: if your scope is wrong, everything built on top of it is wrong. Your System Security Plan doesn’t reflect your actual environment. Your controls are misaligned to where CUI actually lives. Your policies and procedures have to be torn down and rewritten.

Scope defines your boundary. And the boundary only makes sense once you understand your CUI — where it enters your organization, where it lives, how it moves, and where it exits. We map your CUI data flow across four dimensions: how it enters, where it sits, how it moves internally, and where it flows out to subcontractors or vendors.

Once scope and data flow are established, we move to the gap assessment. You get a scored SPRS baseline, a control-by-control analysis, and a fixed-scope proposal. No discovery fees. No billable surprises. If you move to implementation, we build your control set, author your policy library, and structure your evidence pack — every deliverable mapped to the specific CMMC practice it satisfies. Before your C3PAO walks in, we run a mock assessment. Every finding gets closed before audit day.

We work with defense manufacturers, aerospace suppliers, prime and subcontractors, healthcare organizations with dual compliance obligations, and federal construction firms. We’re based in Wichita and work across the country — with clients as far west as San Jose, California and as far east as New Hampshire.

Beyond Consulting: Building the Midwest DIB Community

We organize the CMMC Midwest Conference — the region’s primary gathering for DoD contractors, C3PAOs, RPAs, and compliance practitioners. It’s how we stay ahead of regulatory changes and stay connected to the real challenges facing contractors in this space.

Milestones that define us

Founded

Cybersecurity consulting begins

CMMC-AB

Registered Practitioner status earned

Today

Serving DoD contractors nationwide

The people on your engagement

AZ

Founder & Principal Consultant

SC

Senior Compliance Advisor

TS

Technical Security Specialist

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