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How MSPs Can Capitalize on CMMC: Packaging, Selling, and Delivering Compliance Readiness Services

Updated: Nov 17

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is no longer just a government initiative — it’s a business opportunity. As the DoD begins enforcing CMMC 2.0 across contracts in 2025, thousands of small and mid-sized contractors will need help reaching and maintaining compliance.


This creates a massive opportunity for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to step in.


MSPs already manage IT infrastructure, patching, access control, and endpoint protection. With the right partner and framework, you can add CMMC readiness support to your stack — without building a compliance practice from scratch.


Here’s how MSPs can package and deliver CMMC compliance services, win more contracts, and deepen client relationships.


Why CMMC Is a Natural Fit for MSPs


Many defense contractors—especially in the SMB and mid-market range—do not have internal CISOs, compliance managers, or mature IT teams. They’re looking to their MSPs to guide them through complex cybersecurity frameworks like NIST 800-171 and CMMC Level 2.


  • Increase monthly recurring revenue

  • Differentiate in a competitive market

  • Help clients stay eligible for DoD contracts

  • Drive more strategic conversations with decision-makers

  • Build stickier, longer-term relationships


If you're already offering services like patch management, MFA, antivirus, and backups, you’re halfway there. The next step is formalizing those services around CMMC requirements.


How to Package CMMC Compliance Services


MSPs can start offering CMMC support packages with a few simple layers:


  1. Readiness Assessment Services - Partner with a provider like Cyberleaf to deliver pre-assessment reviews that map client environments to CMMC Level 2 controls. This can include asset inventories, vulnerability scans, and gap analysis reports.

  2. Remediation Support - Provide or resell technical remediation—enabling controls like MFA, implementing endpoint detection, and configuring log retention policies.

  3. Documentation Assistance - Many clients struggle with policies, procedures, and written evidence. You can offer policy templates, or bring in Cyberleaf to handle white label documentation support.

  4. Ongoing Compliance-as-a-Service - Offer quarterly check-ins, ongoing vulnerability management, log monitoring, and change tracking to help clients stay compliant between assessments.


MSPs Helping Clients With CMMC: Real-World Use Case


Let’s say you manage IT for a manufacturing firm that supplies components to a DoD prime contractor. They’ve received notice that CMMC Level 2 will be required for future contracts.


Your team is already handling their infrastructure. By partnering with Cyberleaf, you can immediately add:


  • A full CMMC readiness assessment

  • A remediation roadmap mapped to NIST 800-171

  • Policy creation and evidence collection support

  • Prep sessions for the third-party assessment

  • Ongoing compliance monitoring and reporting


You retain the client relationship. We handle the heavy lifting. You generate new service revenue while making your offering more valuable.


Mapping Cyberleaf Services to CMMC Control Families


Cyberleaf’s professional services and SOC-backed security offerings directly map to multiple CMMC Level 2 control domains, including:


  • Access Control (AC): MFA, least privilege, session controls

  • Audit and Accountability (AU): Logging, SIEM, reporting

  • Incident Response (IR): Detection, response plans, alerting

  • System and Information Integrity (SI): EDR, vulnerability scanning

  • System and Communications Protection (SC): Encryption, firewall configuration


We help MSPs turn these capabilities into clear, compliance-aligned deliverables that are easy to sell and even easier to explain.


Getting Started: White Label CMMC Services for MSPs


Cyberleaf offers white label CMMC readiness services for MSPs who want to grow without growing headcount. Our partner program includes:


  • Co-branded assessments and reports

  • Sales enablement materials

  • Fixed-fee or MRR pricing models

  • Technical support for implementation

  • Collaboration throughout the CMMC lifecycle


You stay client-facing. We operate as your compliance and security team in the background.


Final Thoughts


CMMC is not just a compliance hurdle — it’s a service opportunity. MSPs that take the lead can position themselves as strategic security partners and unlock new revenue in a growing, high-stakes market.


If you want to start offering CMMC compliance services but don’t want to build it all yourself, we can help.


Let’s make you the partner your clients trust to guide them through CMMC.

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