Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis in Pasadena, California

Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis means identifying compliance gaps and developing remediation plans with regulatory compliance gap analysis. It includes assessment with full review of all 110 NIST controls, interviews with staff, on-site inspection, documentation review, policy review, network review, and cloud review, documentation with System Security Plan (SSP), POA&M, SPRS scoring, evidence collection, asset inventory, and diagrams, technical review with firewall and perimeter, endpoint protection, logging gaps, access permissions, VPN security, data storage and CUI handling, server settings, and backup configuration, reporting with executive summary, technical findings, visual risk scoring, remediation plan, and compliance roadmap. Think of it like having an expert understand exactly where your company stands with CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) Level 2 — without guesswork, without vague promises, and without sugarcoating. Instead of contract loss, SPRS score audits, False Claims Act risk, unknown gaps, wrong assumptions, IT provider confusion, compliance drift, poor documentation, failed assessments, delays in readiness, and lost revenue, you get you know your real SPRS score, you understand every gap, you know what must be fixed, you know how to fix it, you know how long readiness will take, you gain confidence, you regain control, you keep your DoD contracts, you stay in the supply chain, and compliance stops being a mystery — it becomes a plan. For Pasadena manufacturers who rely on defense work, Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis gives you the clarity needed to understand exactly where you stand with CMMC Level 2.

You probably need Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis if you just heard about the new 48 CFR CMMC rule from your prime contractor, a large aerospace client demands CMMC readiness, you discover you cannot bid on future DoD contracts without compliance, your IT provider says "We think you're compliant," you realize no one has actually mapped your environment to NIST SP 800-171, you want a clear roadmap not spreadsheets full of jargon, you need to know your current SPRS score — even if it's low, you want honesty clarity and a guide who knows the path, or you fear penalties contract loss or being removed from the supply chain. Many Pasadena manufacturers don't realize they need Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis until they face a prime contractor request. A 38-employee manufacturing company in Pasadena built precision components for a large defense contractor. They had been doing this work for years. The CEO always believed they were in good shape. One afternoon, their prime contractor sent a brief e-mail: "Please confirm that you will achieve CMMC Level 2 readiness in accordance with 48 CFR timelines. Provide your current SPRS score and gap-analysis documentation." The CEO read the message twice. He forwarded it to his IT provider and asked: "Are we good for this? Are we compliant?" The response came back quickly: "Yes, we think so. We installed antivirus and MFA. You should be fine." That answer felt wrong. It was too vague, too casual, too quick. The CEO didn't sleep much that night. The next morning, he called Alcala Consulting. When we arrived on-site, we sat down with the CEO, operations manager, and IT lead. They all looked uneasy. The CEO said: "I just need to know where we stand. If we have gaps, tell me. If we're far behind, tell me. I don't want polite answers. I want the truth." We explained our approach: no scare tactics, no jargon, no judgment, no guessing, just the truth, mapped directly to NIST SP 800-171 and the new CMMC rule. He nodded and said: "That's exactly what we've never gotten." We started the gap analysis that same morning. CMMC Level 2 requires meeting all 110 controls from NIST SP 800-171. The company assumed they were "80 to 90 percent compliant." They weren't. They were closer to 20 percent. If you've never had a real compliance gap analysis or your IT provider cannot speak confidently about NIST SP 800-171, that's a sign you need Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis. We don't sugarcoat the truth. We don't pretend compliance is quick. We guide you through it — step by step.

Manufacturers that skip a gap analysis experience contract loss, SPRS score audits, False Claims Act risk, unknown gaps, wrong assumptions, IT provider confusion, compliance drift, poor documentation, failed assessments, delays in readiness, and lost revenue. Compliance is not something you guess at. It's something you measure. CMMC is not optional. It is not theoretical. It is now law through 48 CFR rulemaking as of November 10. The new rule established that CMMC Level 2 compliance will be required over the next 12–18 months, contractors must show progress now, prime contractors will begin requiring proof immediately, an inaccurate SPRS score can lead to False Claims Act penalties, businesses that wait risk losing contracts, and those who submit incorrect scores risk far worse. A gap analysis is not a "nice-to-have." It is step one in staying in the supply chain. Most manufacturers believe "We're secure enough," "Our IT provider handles this," "We'll cross that bridge later," or "We already use MFA, so we're good." But CMMC Level 2 requires all 110 controls from NIST SP 800-171 — not just tools. Most SMBs fail because their IT provider never read the 800-171 controls, no one has mapped systems to requirements, no one maintains documentation, they misunderstood what counts as CUI, their SPRS score is wrong, their policies don't match their environment, nothing is measured, nothing is tested, and nothing is written. Compliance requires proof. Proof requires documentation. Documentation requires expertise. One Pasadena manufacturing company almost lost everything because they assumed they were "80 to 90 percent compliant" but they were closer to 20 percent. They had their SPRS score was not calculated correctly, they stored Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) on unprotected machines, MFA was incomplete, their network had no segmentation, their firewall was outdated, no System Security Plan (SSP), no Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M), no audit logging, no access control policies, backups were not encrypted, and no incident response plan. Without Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis, manufacturers face contract loss, SPRS score audits, False Claims Act risk, unknown gaps, wrong assumptions, IT provider confusion, compliance drift, poor documentation, failed assessments, delays in readiness, and lost revenue. For Pasadena manufacturers who rely on defense work, the question is simple: Are you ready — or are you exposed?

Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis prevents problems through comprehensive compliance assessment: we learn your environment and determine whether you handle CUI to understand your situation, we visit your facility in Pasadena to document everything including systems, networks, processes, users, assets, roles, controls, and gaps, we map your environment to NIST SP 800-171 to review each control across access, identification, logging, monitoring, incident response, configuration, maintenance, vulnerability management, media handling, backup, physical security, device policies, and encryption, we calculate your SPRS score to provide accurate evidence-based defensible and real scoring, we give you a clear plan to answer what must be fixed, in what order, how long it will take, what it will cost, and who owns what, we perform full review of all 110 NIST controls to find gaps, we interview staff to understand processes, we perform on-site inspection to see reality, we review documentation to find what's missing, we review policies to find gaps, we review network to find issues, we review cloud to find vulnerabilities, we create System Security Plan (SSP) to document security, we create POA&M to track remediation, we perform SPRS scoring to calculate score, we collect evidence to prove compliance, we create asset inventory to track assets, we create diagrams to visualize environment, we review firewall and perimeter to find issues, we review endpoint protection to find gaps, we review logging gaps to find missing logs, we review access permissions to find excessive access, we review VPN security to find vulnerabilities, we review data storage and CUI handling to find issues, we review server settings to find misconfigurations, we review backup configuration to find issues, we provide executive summary to explain findings, we provide technical findings to show details, we provide visual risk scoring to show priorities, we provide remediation plan to fix issues, and we provide compliance roadmap to achieve compliance. Instead of reacting to compliance failures after contracts are lost, we prevent them before prime contractors require proof. This proactive approach means you avoid contract loss, SPRS score audits, False Claims Act risk, unknown gaps, wrong assumptions, IT provider confusion, compliance drift, poor documentation, failed assessments, delays in readiness, and lost revenue. Many Pasadena manufacturers find that Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis transforms how they handle compliance. Instead of guessing at compliance, you get real measurement. Instead of vague promises, you get clarity. Instead of "we think you're compliant," you get the truth. Compliance stops being a mystery. It becomes a plan.

Our Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis services include: assessment with full review of all 110 NIST controls, interviews with staff, on-site inspection, documentation review, policy review, network review, and cloud review, documentation with System Security Plan (SSP), POA&M, SPRS scoring, evidence collection, asset inventory, and diagrams, technical review with firewall and perimeter, endpoint protection, logging gaps, access permissions, VPN security, data storage and CUI handling, server settings, and backup configuration, reporting with executive summary, technical findings, visual risk scoring, remediation plan, and compliance roadmap. Compliance stops being a mystery. It becomes a plan. For 27 years, Alcala Consulting has guided dozens of manufacturers through CMMC Level 2 readiness, NIST SP 800-171 implementation, SPRS scoring, gap analysis, documentation, System Security Plans (SSPs), POA&Ms, logging redesign, and access control restructuring. We know the process inside and out. We speak your language. We guide without judgment. We tell the truth — clearly — in plain English.

Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis is fundamentally different from just checking if you have antivirus and MFA. Just checking if you have antivirus and MFA means looking at tools. Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis means understanding exactly where your company stands with CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) Level 2 — without guesswork, without vague promises, and without sugarcoating — by mapping your environment to all 110 controls from NIST SP 800-171. Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis goes far beyond just checking if you have antivirus and MFA. It includes learning your environment and determining whether you handle CUI to understand your situation, visiting your facility in Pasadena to document everything including systems, networks, processes, users, assets, roles, controls, and gaps, mapping your environment to NIST SP 800-171 to review each control across access, identification, logging, monitoring, incident response, configuration, maintenance, vulnerability management, media handling, backup, physical security, device policies, and encryption, calculating your SPRS score to provide accurate evidence-based defensible and real scoring, giving you a clear plan to answer what must be fixed, in what order, how long it will take, what it will cost, and who owns what, performing full review of all 110 NIST controls to find gaps, interviewing staff to understand processes, performing on-site inspection to see reality, reviewing documentation to find what's missing, reviewing policies to find gaps, reviewing network to find issues, reviewing cloud to find vulnerabilities, creating System Security Plan (SSP) to document security, creating POA&M to track remediation, performing SPRS scoring to calculate score, collecting evidence to prove compliance, creating asset inventory to track assets, creating diagrams to visualize environment, reviewing firewall and perimeter to find issues, reviewing endpoint protection to find gaps, reviewing logging gaps to find missing logs, reviewing access permissions to find excessive access, reviewing VPN security to find vulnerabilities, reviewing data storage and CUI handling to find issues, reviewing server settings to find misconfigurations, reviewing backup configuration to find issues, providing executive summary to explain findings, providing technical findings to show details, providing visual risk scoring to show priorities, providing remediation plan to fix issues, and providing compliance roadmap to achieve compliance. A Pasadena manufacturing company learned this the hard way. Their IT provider said: "Yes, we think so. We installed antivirus and MFA. You should be fine." But when we performed the gap analysis, we found they were closer to 20 percent compliant, not "80 to 90 percent compliant" as they assumed. They had their SPRS score was not calculated correctly (actual score was -76), they stored Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) on unprotected machines, MFA was incomplete, their network had no segmentation, their firewall was outdated, no System Security Plan (SSP), no Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M), no audit logging, no access control policies, backups were not encrypted, and no incident response plan. Just checking if you have antivirus and MFA wouldn't have found this. Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis did. CMMC Level 2 requires all 110 controls from NIST SP 800-171 — not just tools.

Three things set our Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis apart: First, we understand CMMC Level 2 — we guide dozens of manufacturers through CMMC Level 2 readiness, NIST SP 800-171 implementation, SPRS scoring, gap analysis, documentation, System Security Plans (SSPs), POA&Ms, logging redesign, and access control restructuring. Second, we don't just check tools — we map your environment to all 110 controls from NIST SP 800-171, calculate your SPRS score accurately, and provide a clear roadmap. Third, we communicate in plain English — you'll understand what's happening and what we're doing. Many Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis providers focus on one aspect (like documentation) but don't help with comprehensive compliance assessment or clear roadmaps. We provide comprehensive Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis that covers everything from assessment to compliance roadmap. We also understand that compliance can be overwhelming for manufacturers. We make Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis practical and manageable instead of confusing and stressful. For Pasadena manufacturers who rely on defense work, this practical, comprehensive approach makes all the difference. We don't sugarcoat the truth. We don't pretend compliance is quick. We guide you through it — step by step. We have 27 years in cybersecurity and compliance. We have deep expertise in CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, and SPRS scoring. We have local engineers who respond quickly. We have a track record of guiding SMBs to real compliance. We have 17 five-star Google reviews, a 4.3-star Facebook rating, and four five-star Yelp reviews. We know the process inside and out.

Getting started is simple. First, book a 15-minute discovery call where we'll learn your environment and determine whether you handle CUI. We'll ask questions like: Do you work with defense contractors? Do you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)? What does your prime contractor require? Based on that conversation, we'll visit your facility in Pasadena — documenting everything including systems, networks, processes, users, assets, roles, controls, and gaps. We'll explain what we'll review, how it will help, and what it will cost. Once you approve, we'll map your environment to NIST SP 800-171 — reviewing each control across access, identification, logging, monitoring, incident response, configuration, maintenance, vulnerability management, media handling, backup, physical security, device policies, and encryption. The process typically takes 1-2 weeks for the gap analysis, and then we calculate your SPRS score accurately, provide a clear plan that answers what must be fixed, in what order, how long it will take, what it will cost, and who owns what. There's no commitment required for the initial consultation — it's just a chance to see if Regulatory Compliance Gap Analysis makes sense for your Pasadena business. If you've never had a real compliance gap analysis — or if your IT provider cannot speak confidently about NIST SP 800-171 — you already know it's time. Book your 15-minute discovery call today. We'll show you exactly where you stand and how to get ready on time.