A practice built for the contractors who carry the work.
We exist because the small and mid-size companies that make up the bulk of the defense industrial base deserve cybersecurity counsel that is rigorous, plain-language, and free of theatre.
INDUS Secure was founded on a single observation: the firms that need CMMC help most are the firms least likely to receive useful help. Tier-1 consultancies are priced for primes. Solo consultants are capacity-constrained. Many MSP entrants are conflicted by their own remediation interests. The result is a buying market full of contractors who are either over-served by the wrong partner or under-served by no partner at all.
We built our practice around a narrower, more disciplined offer. We work with small and mid-size DIB contractors. We work in fixed-fee, fixed-scope engagements. We do not consult outside the CMMC and NIST 800-171 domain. We are deliberate about the conflict of interest that comes with being both a remediation partner and an authorized assessor, and we treat that conflict as structural rather than theoretical.
Our intention is not to be the largest CMMC consultancy in the market. It is to be the firm a thoughtful contracting officer would recommend to a peer.
Our position in the ecosystem
We are currently a Cyber AB candidate organization on the path to full C3PAO authorization. While that authorization is in process, our practice focuses on pre-assessment work that does not require C3PAO status: readiness, gap assessment, documentation, mock assessment, and ongoing program management. Once authorization is granted, we will offer formal Level 2 certification assessments ; with the discipline of separating those engagements from any organizations we have remediated.
We disclose our authorization status openly because the alternative is the kind of ambiguous marketing that has eroded trust across this market.
How we hire
Our consultants hold the credentials that matter for the work: Certified CMMC Professional (CCP), Certified CMMC Assessor (CCA), CISSP, CISA, and registered practitioner status under the Cyber AB. More importantly, they have backgrounds in the work itself; defense contracting, FedRAMP, federal cybersecurity, prior assessor experience, rather than the marketing of it.
We do not hire generalists with cybersecurity certifications and assign them to CMMC engagements. Every consultant on our team has worked on CMMC or NIST 800-171 specifically, and their CV reflects it.
How we are different
Three commitments distinguish how we work:
- Fixed scope, fixed fee. We define deliverables and prices in writing before engagements begin. No hourly meters, no scope-creep economics.
- Published methodology. The frameworks, checklists, and decision matrices we use are documented and shared with clients. There is no proprietary black box.
- Honest scoping. If your contracts do not require CMMC, or if a free resource would serve you better than a paid engagement, we will say so during the scoping call. The most useful consultant is the one willing to recommend silence over engagement when silence is right.
What we do not do
We do not sell software or take referral fees from software vendors. We do not run managed security operations. We do not displace your existing IT team or MSP — we work alongside them. We do not market services we are not authorized to deliver.
The discipline of a narrow practice is, in our view, the foundation of useful expertise.
If you would like to discuss your situation, the most useful place to start is a 30-minute scoping call. Request one here.
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