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10 October 2026

CMMC and NIST 800-171: the network diagram your System Security Plan needs

What a CMMC Level 2 assessor expects from your network and CUI data-flow diagrams, how to scope the CUI boundary, and how to keep the diagrams accurate between assessments.

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The Compliance tab reporting on the CUI boundary

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