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From first requirement to assessment readiness.

Build your compliance program, close gaps, and prepare a review package in your own environment.

For self-assessment, assessor handoff, and authorization review.

Your compliance journey
  1. Define your scope
  2. Implement controls
  3. Close gaps
  4. Prepare for review
  5. Stay ready
01Inside your tenant02Hash chained03Gaps declared04Independently verifiable

Built for

  • ATO and continuous authorization
  • CMMC Level 2
  • FedRAMP 20x
  • NIST 800-53 and 800-171
  • OMB M-25-21 AI inventories
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A clear next step, at every stage.

Start from zero or bring your existing program together. Each stage connects the requirements, work, and evidence you need for the next.

  1. Know what applies to your system.

    Define your system boundary and identify applicable requirements before collecting evidence.

    Explore the CMMC starting checklist

    What you buildSystem scope and requirements.

  2. Connect requirements to implementation.

    Connect each requirement to its controls, implementation status, and supporting evidence.

    Explore control monitoring

    What you buildA control implementation record.

  3. Turn open gaps into accountable work.

    Assign findings by control family, severity, and owner. Track remediation and evidence, with policy gates and approvals for automated changes.

    Explore monitored remediation

    What you buildOwned findings and evidence of changes.

  4. Prepare for your assessment or authorization review.

    Assemble documentation, open findings, and control evidence for your own review, an independent assessor, or an authorizing official.

    Inspect the package contents

    What you buildA package with traceable evidence.

  5. Keep the program current as your system changes.

    Monitor drift, keep gaps visible, and retain evidence and decision history for your next review.

    Explore the change record

    What you buildA current record of readiness.

Inside PolicyCortexscope, controls, and package readiness
PolicyCortex authorization workspace showing the lifecycle from scope to assessment, control coverage, open findings, and package readiness

The authorization workspace connects lifecycle progress, control coverage, and package readiness. Product interface shown with illustrative demo data.

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Your review package, assembled from the work.

Inspect the documentation and evidence, then explore the review path that applies to your organization.

System Security Plan (SSP)

The system boundary and control implementation, generated from the implementation record.

Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M)

Open gaps, assigned owners, and remediation paths, so unresolved work remains visible.

Assessment documentation (SAR)

A Security Assessment Report generated from the same record, available for review by the responsible assessment team.

Evidence inventory and exports

Control-linked artifacts, capture times, hashes, and validation results. Package exports include ZIP, OSCAL, and eMASS XML for supported workflows.

Inside the packagethe documentation and evidence, together
PolicyCortex package export with evidence inventory, validation results, SSP, SAR, POA&M, and export formats

Inspect the package before you start a conversation. Product interface shown with illustrative demo data; contents depend on the selected workflow.

Self-assessment

Keep the package for your own review, internal accountability, and applicable self-assessment requirements.

Explore CMMC assessment paths

Independent assessment

Give an assessor the documentation and traceable evidence needed to examine your implementation.

Explore assessor handoff

Authorization review

Prepare the system record for an authorizing official and keep a history of what changes after review.

Explore authorization packages

Package requirements depend on your framework and system boundary. ATO packaging supports AWS and Azure; GCP supports governance, remediation, and control-linked evidence. Assessment and authorization decisions remain with the responsible officials.

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Confidence, built into the record.

A useful compliance program needs evidence you can explain and another person can check. PolicyCortex connects every observation and governed change to its source.

Your environment. Your evidence.

Policy evaluation, evidence collection, and action gating run inside your tenant. Evidence is hash chained and independently verifiable. Missing observations are recorded as declared gaps, so a reviewer can see where the record is incomplete.

Inspect the architecture
Explore the evidence mechanisms

Illustrative records show how policy, evidence, and action gating remain inside the tenant boundary.

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Start with a clear understanding.

What is PolicyCortex?

PolicyCortex is a compliance and assurance platform for regulated cloud and AI systems. It connects requirements, control implementation, remediation, and verifiable evidence in your tenant, helping your organization prepare for self-assessment, independent assessment, and authorization review, and maintain readiness as systems change.

Can we start without an established compliance program?

You can begin with your system boundary and applicable requirements, then build the implementation record, identify gaps, and collect supporting evidence. Your team remains responsible for implementing organizational policies and controls. Fixed-scope delivery engagements are available if you need help with the work.

Can we use the package for self-assessment?

Yes. You can retain the package for internal review and applicable self-assessment requirements. Your framework and assessment level determine whether an independent assessor or authorizing official must also review it.

Does PolicyCortex certify or authorize our system?

No. PolicyCortex supports preparation, evidence collection, and ongoing readiness. The assessor makes the assessment determination, and the authorizing official decides whether a system is authorized to operate.

Where does our evidence live?

In your own tenant. Policy evaluation, evidence collection, and action gating run in your environment, with no evidence telemetry pipeline to PolicyCortex servers.

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Begin with the work in front of you.

Bring your target framework, system scope, and current gaps. We can help you identify the right starting point.

Licensed software. Read-only, fourteen-day evaluation. Optional delivery support.

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