Can an MSP own a client's CMMC compliance?

No, and it shouldn't. The client owns scope, responsibility, and attestation. The MSP leads the program and produces the evidence; the obligation stays with the client.

How does CMMC deepen the MSP–client relationship?

It's recurring by rule: annual attestations and triennial reassessments run on the system the MSP delivers, so the MSP remains the natural partner across every cycle.

We already manage the client’s environment, what does Deep Fathom add?

It turns that managed work into reviewable, source-backed evidence and a program the MSP leads, not just operates.

Do an MSP's security tools cover CMMC?

Tools contribute controls; they don't prove the program. Deep Fathom maps each contribution into one program so coverage is provable, not assumed.

Is this a one-time readiness project?

No. A consulting engagement ends at certification. Because the MSP operates the environment, it sustains the evidence across every cycle that follows.

Deep Fathom /Use Cases /MSPs

For MSPs and MSSPs

The compliance partner your defense clients depend on.

You already run the environment their CMMC depends on. Deep Fathom helps you take clients to certification and keep them there, turning compliance into the relationship they can't outgrow.

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01/Reality

Your clients need a partner, not another vendor.

Your clients have to get certified and stay that way, so they turn to the team already inside their systems. But running security isn't the same as proving it, and CMMC doesn't stop at the certificate. It comes back every year, and so does the work.

02/What changes

Lead the program. Own the relationship.

Consultants deliver and leave. You run the environment, so you lead the program and stay in it.

A seat at the table

CMMC ties your clients' contracts to the environment you run. You stop being a line item and become part of how they stay in business.

Compliance from your operations

The work you already do becomes source-backed evidence, captured in flow. Real proof, not screenshots assembled the week before an audit.

Lead without absorbing the risk

A customer responsibility matrix splits every objective provider versus client. You guide the whole program and carry influence, not liability.

Evidence that survives review

Each artifact ties its claim to a source, date, and owner. Clients walk in with a package a C3PAO can trust, and you are why it holds.

Orchestrate the whole stack

Your tools contribute controls. Deep Fathom maps each one into a single program, so you can show what's covered and where work remains.

Recurring by the nature of the rule

Annual attestations and triennial reassessments all run on the system you delivered. The relationship renews because the regulation does.

Step 1 · Lead

Take the client to ready.

Deep Fathom maps the client's scope, splits objectives into provider-owned and client-owned, and builds a guided plan you run with them.

Maps your footprint in the client's scope
Splits objectives provider versus client
Turns the gap into a guided, owned plan

Step 2 · Prove

Turn operations into evidence.

Configuration, identity, endpoint, and monitoring activity are captured from the systems you run, mapped to the 110 controls and 320 objectives, each with its source, date, and owner.

Evidence captured in flow from managed systems
Mapped to 110 controls and 320 objectives
Every artifact carries source, date, and owner

Step 3 · Sustain

Stay the partner across every cycle.

The platform keeps evidence live as you operate, flags posture changes, and carries the record through every attestation and reassessment, so each renewal builds on the last.

Documentation stays live as you operate
Posture drift surfaces the moment it appears
One record across attestation and reassessment

03/The Platform

Modules under the fabric.

What you use to lead the client's program — supporting readiness without standing in for the independent assessment.

01 Scoping

Onramp Kit

Set each client's audit boundary fast. Inheritance and system maps baseline the SSP from day one.

02 Boundary

Boundary Advisor

Watches for drift across the environments you manage. Posture changes surface the moment they appear.

03 Collection

Outpost

Multi-cloud evidence agent. Also the posture check you can run on a prospect before taking them on as a compliance client.

04 Capture

Scout

Browser-side capture for the artifacts no API exposes, structured at the source.

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