Kaleigh and Bobby explain why CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 based teams should choose tools based on defined needs, not conference-floor impulse in this episode of Climbing Mount CMMC. Drawing on MSP experience, they cover staged purchasing, supply-chain and data-scope risks, team trials, documentation impacts, and when patience is the safer strategy.

Other key takeaways include:


- Tools are only one possible answer to an organizational problem; the fix may instead require a process, procedure, or hire.
- Implement one tool at a time. Tool onboarding creates work across procedures, documentation, teams, and compliance validation.
- Assess supply-chain risk and classify whether a tool provides security or stores CUI; data type and hosting affect scope and requirements.
- Build testing into change management before rewriting the system documentation, SSP, network design, or controls around a product.
- OSC customers should ask MSPs how proposed tools were assessed and whether they fit the organization’s CMMC compliance needs.

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Kaleigh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaleigh-floyd-079a52190/