The contract now depends
on the evidence.
Primes and subcontractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information carry obligations written for organizations ten times their size. Vijilan runs the 24/7 detection, containment and record-keeping those clauses assume, so the assessment finds a monitored environment rather than a policy binder.
Managed security for defense contractors means a 24/7 SOC watching the enclave where CUI actually lives, containing intrusions before exfiltration, and keeping the searchable record that DFARS reporting and a CMMC assessment both depend on. It maps to NIST SP 800-171 practice families rather than replacing them: Vijilan supplies the monitoring, response and evidence, and your assessor still makes the determination. Available directly, or white-labeled behind the MSP or IT provider that already runs your environment.
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What defense contractors is actually up against.
You are the route to the prime
Subcontractors are targeted precisely because they hold the same program data with a fraction of the security budget. Supply-chain intrusions rarely start at the top of the chain.
CUI moves somewhere nobody mapped
Drawings and specifications end up in email, a shared drive and an engineer’s laptop. An enclave only protects what is inside it, and the leak is usually the copy that left.
The reporting clock is short
DFARS 252.204-7012 requires a cyber incident affecting covered defense information to be reported to DoD within 72 hours of discovery, with the ability to preserve and submit relevant artifacts. That deadline assumes somebody was already collecting.
An unmonitored practice is an open finding
Several NIST SP 800-171 families assume continuous monitoring, audit-record review and incident handling. Implemented on paper and never operated is exactly what an assessment is designed to surface.
Built for defense contractors, delivered through your MSP.
24/7 SOC with active containment
Analysts isolate hosts, disable accounts and cut sessions under an approved runbook, so an intrusion in the CUI enclave is contained rather than queued for the morning.
Identity threat detection and response
ITDR watches Active Directory, Entra ID and Microsoft 365, including GCC High tenants, where credential misuse and privilege escalation actually begin.
The audit record, kept searchable
ThreatLog™ retains who accessed what, when, and what the SOC did about it, on an index-free engine so retention length is a policy decision rather than a budget one.
Incident artifacts on the reporting clock
Timelines, scope analysis and preserved evidence assembled to support a 72-hour submission and whatever the prime asks for afterward.
Works with the stack you were told to run
ThreatRespond™ wraps the EDR already approved in your system security plan; ThreatDefend™ deploys CrowdStrike Falcon end to end. Changing tooling mid-assessment is rarely the right move, and we do not require it.
Frameworks, mapped and evidenced.
No vendor makes you compliant — we run the technical controls your frameworks expect and hand you the evidence. Here's the mapping.
| Framework | How Vijilan helps |
|---|---|
| CMMC Level 2 | Continuous monitoring, audit-record review, incident handling and response evidence mapped to the relevant NIST SP 800-171 practice families. We supply the operated controls and the artifacts; your C3PAO makes the determination. |
| NIST SP 800-171 | Coverage and documentation for the Audit and Accountability, Incident Response, System and Information Integrity, and Access Control families, with the gaps named rather than papered over. |
| DFARS 252.204-7012 | Detection, evidence preservation and incident timelines that support reporting a cyber incident to DoD within the 72-hour window, and the forensic record requested afterward. |
| DFARS 252.204-7019 / 7020 | Monitoring evidence that supports an honest SPRS self-assessment score, including which practices are operated rather than merely documented. |
Common questions.
Does Vijilan make us CMMC certified?+
No, and be wary of anyone who says they do. Certification is a determination made by an accredited C3PAO against your environment. What we provide is the operated half: 24/7 monitoring, incident response and the searchable evidence that several practice families assume exists. The assessment still assesses you.
We are a ten-person shop on one prime contract. Is this oversized?+
The obligations do not scale down with headcount, which is the whole problem. A small subcontractor holding CUI carries the same DFARS reporting duty as a large one. Buying the monitoring as a service is usually the only way that arithmetic works at your size.
Do you support GCC High and government cloud tenants?+
Yes. Identity and collaboration signals from Microsoft 365 GCC High are monitored alongside endpoints, cloud and network in one investigation queue.
Our IT is handled by an MSP. Does that change anything?+
Only who fronts it. Your provider can deliver this under their own brand with our SOC behind it, and we never compete with our partners for their clients. Where there is no provider, we run it directly.
What happens in the first 72 hours of an incident?+
Containment first, then the record. The SOC isolates and cuts off the intrusion, then assembles the timeline, scope and preserved artifacts you need to report to DoD and to brief the prime. The reporting decision and submission remain yours; we make sure the evidence exists to make them.
"The CMMC deadline was a make-or-break moment for our business. We didn't have the time or expertise to build a compliant program from scratch. Finding Vijilan on the AWS Marketplace was a lifesaver. Their team got us deployed and audit-ready in just six weeks, and we passed our assessment without a single issue."
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