A practice built for the contractors who carry the work.

INDUS Secure is the cybersecurity compliance and readiness service line of INDUS Technology, Inc., a San Diego-based federal contractor with 25+ years in the defense industrial base.

Built on INDUS experience

INDUS Technology has supported the Department of Defense since 1998, delivering engineering services, IT and infrastructure work, systems integration, cybersecurity, and professional services to government customers across the defense industrial base. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Credentials

INDUS Technology has successfully completed a CMMC Level 2 assessment by an authorized C3PAO and also maintains ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management. INDUS Technology Business Operations is CMMI Maturity Level 3 appraised.

CMMI ML3 Services appraisal applies specifically to INDUS Technology Business Operations, a unit within INDUS Technology, externally validated by an SEI-accredited Lead Appraiser and currently active. CMMI Maturity Level 3 represents an externally measured standard of process discipline that the federal government routinely audits its contractors against.

What that foundation means for INDUS Secure.

Our compliance and readiness methodology is shaped by the operational reality of running a DoD-facing business. We know what the work looks like from the contractor side because that’s where we come from.

Documentation standards, evidence handling, configuration management, and audit-ready operations are not abstract concepts in our methodology. They are part of how INDUS has supported DoD work since 1998, and they shape how INDUS Secure approaches client engagements.

We exist to help small and mid-size DIB contractors navigate NIST SP 800-171 compliance and CMMC readiness with practical, plain-spoken support. Tier-1 consultancies are priced for primes. Solo consultants are capacity-constrained. Many MSP entrants are conflicted by their own remediation interests. CMMC-only shops often hold the credentials without the operational depth of a company that has actually run a DoD-facing business at scale. 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.

The same separation principle applies to our relationship with INDUS Technology. INDUS Secure operates independently of the parent company’s federal contracting work, and we treat that boundary as structural rather than nominal.

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 work

Four 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.
• Institutional foundation. INDUS Secure operates as the Cybersecurity Compliance and Readiness arm of INDUS Technology, a federal contractor with 25+ years of DoD work. The same operational discipline that has earned INDUS Technology its credentials informs how INDUSSecure.US scopes, documents, and delivers every engagement.

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.

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If you would like to discuss your situation, the most useful place to start is a 30-minute readiness consultation call. Request one here.