Most of the calls I get from Fairborn start the same way
Somebody up the supply chain sent an email asking for an SSP, a security score, or proof that the 110 controls in NIST 800-171 are actually in place — and it landed in an inbox that wasn't expecting it. That's usually the moment the phone rings. The owner on the other end isn't asking me about computers. They're asking whether the work that pays the bills is about to disappear because nobody in the building knows what a POA&M is.
I'm not going to sugarcoat it. CMMC and NIST 800-171 used to feel like something you could get to next quarter, and now they're sitting on top of every renewal. If you do any work for a customer that takes compliance seriously, you're inside that conversation whether you signed up for it or not. The paperwork is the job now, as much as the firewalls and the laptops are. Pretending otherwise is how good shops lose contracts they spent years earning.
The way I run SkyNet is pretty simple. Flat rate, month to month, no long contracts, and I answer my own phone. When a client needs a System Security Plan, we write it with them — we don't hand them a template and wish them luck. We own the POA&M and chip away at it every month instead of letting it rot in a SharePoint folder. When something actually goes wrong, we're the ones writing the incident response, preserving the evidence, and making the notifications inside the window the regulation gives you. Nobody on my team has ever told a client "that's not in scope" during an incident. That's not how I built this.
What I want for a Fairborn business owner is boring, in the best possible way. The machines work. The audit answers itself because the documentation matches what's actually running. The compliance email comes in and you forward it to me instead of staring at the ceiling at 2am. If that sounds like the relationship you've been trying to find, call me — you'll get me, not a queue.