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If you do federal work, or you want to, anything you touch that holds federal contract information now requires CMMC Level 1 to keep and win contracts. This is the field guide that walks you through all 15 safeguards yourself, start to finish, in plain English.
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These are live FY2025 numbers from USAspending.gov, the government’s own record. More than $350 billion flowed to small-business industries across 856,000+ contract actions. The gate to nearly all of it is the same: a clean CMMC Level 1. That is exactly where this book starts you.
FY2025 contract obligations by representative NAICS. Source: USAspending.gov.
Small businesses are the favorite target of online thieves, because they are the least defended. We are anti-hacker, and our only ask is simple: take this seriously, because the people coming for what you built already do.
Wire fraud and ransomware can empty the bank in a single afternoon.
Their data and your reputation, gone overnight and hard to win back.
Many small firms never fully reopen after a serious breach.
If your business holds federal contract information, securing it is no longer optional. It is the price of doing business with the government at all. CMMC Level 1 is the floor, and this book is the must-have that gets you over it.
CMMC did not appear from nowhere. The maturity model behind it was built at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, and that same program trains the security professionals who now carry it into the field. David Fuentes III is one of them. He wrote this book to put that training in the hands of the public, so any owner can secure their business and safely do work with the government.
If you want to work with the government, do it securely, with the best on your side. Here is every step the book walks you through, from not sure it applies to status posted and ready to bid.
What CMMC Level 1 actually is, who is really targeting a small shop, and how to tell in minutes whether you touch federal contract information at all.
The highest-leverage hour in the book. Find your federal contract information and scope the tiniest honest line around it, so you lock down a corner of your company instead of all of it.
Every FAR 52.204-21 safeguarding requirement walked one by one. Access, identity, media, physical, system, and information protection, each with the exact evidence to keep.
A fill-in SSP template plus a short policy pack you complete from examples. The paperwork an assessor and a contracting officer expect to see, done.
Check yourself against the same 59 assessment objectives an assessor uses, sign the affirmation memo, and post your status with the government yourself.
A calm yearly compliance calendar and worked examples so it stays a routine, not a fire drill, while you go win the contracts that just opened up.

Get the book, clear CMMC Level 1 yourself, and go win the work the government is putting out right now. The whole field guide, all 15 safeguards in plain English, in your hands today.

Available now on Amazon, on Kindle. Yours to keep.