Honda suppliers in Marysville, the Intel corridor in New Albany, and defense and logistics operations around Rickenbacker rely on TRNSFRM for CMMC and NIST 800-171 programs, OT/IT segmentation, and 24/7 monitoring built for a plant floor rather than an office park.
Security & compliance gaps — plus the IT issues that create them
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CMMC Level 2 is now a condition of award, and your System Security Plan is partial, undated, or written by a consultant who never touched the network. A POA&M with no owner and no evidence trail will not survive a C3PAO assessment.
The OT network is flat. Controllers, HMIs, historians, and scanners share address space with office laptops and guest Wi-Fi, so one phished credential in accounting can reach a machine that runs unpatched because the vendor will not certify a newer OS.
Primes and OEMs are asking for evidence, not assurances — questionnaires, SPRS scores, control narratives, and proof that MFA, logging, and encryption are actually enforced. Purchasing teams are pulling suppliers who cannot produce it.
ITAR and EAR-controlled drawings sit in shared folders and email threads with no export-control boundary, no access review, and no record of which non-US persons could reach them.
An hour of unplanned downtime on a line costs more than a year of security spend, yet backups are untested and there is no written plan for who calls whom in the first hour of a ransomware event.
A generalist MSP that is fine with printers and Microsoft 365 cannot speak plant-floor: no view of PLCs, no maintenance-window discipline, and no ability to sit in a prime's supply-chain security review.
Central Ohio on-site coverage — engineers dispatched into Franklin, Delaware, and Union counties, so Marysville, New Albany, Obetz, and Dublin plants get hands on the equipment the same day rather than a remote session and a shipping label.
CMMC, NIST 800-171, and ITAR programs built specifically for Tier 1 through Tier 3 suppliers: gap assessment, SSP and POA&M, remediation, SPRS scoring, and the evidence set an assessor or a prime will actually accept.
Supply-chain context that matters here — Honda's supplier base around Marysville, the semiconductor build-out and its contractors in New Albany, and the defense, aerospace, and logistics tenants clustered around Rickenbacker.
OT-aware engineering: we segment production networks, protect legacy controllers that cannot be patched, and schedule work around your shift pattern instead of assuming a 9-to-5 change window.
Ohio engineers and a US-based SOC watching your endpoints 24/7 — no offshore tier-1 queue between your maintenance manager and someone who can act.
The same security operations and engineering bench that runs our Cleveland headquarters work, so a Columbus plant gets the depth of a large practice with a local team on the ground.
Production, business, and guest traffic separated with enforced boundaries, protected access for vendor remote support, and compensating controls around legacy controllers that cannot be patched.
All 110 NIST 800-171 controls assessed against your real environment, a System Security Plan written to survive review, a prioritized POA&M with owners and dates, and an accurate SPRS score.
Endpoint detection on every workstation, server, and engineering station, monitored around the clock by analysts who isolate a compromised host instead of emailing an alert to second shift.
MFA enforcement, conditional access, privileged account control, CUI-appropriate tenant configuration, and export-control boundaries for ITAR and EAR data.
Immutable backups of ERP, MES, file, and engineering data with tested restores, documented recovery objectives per system, and an IR plan naming who does what in the first hour.
A budgeted technology and compliance roadmap reviewed with leadership each quarter — refresh cycles, audit milestones, and risk decisions in plain business terms.
Scheduled and emergency on-site engineering across Central Ohio, including cabling, plant Wi-Fi and scanner coverage, and cutover work planned around your production schedule.
Compliance frameworks, cost guides, and local services for Columbus-area manufacturing operations.
Level 1 and Level 2 readiness, SSP, POA&M, and assessment support.
Line-item cost ranges for suppliers by size and scope.
All 110 controls, SPRS scoring, and evidence management.
Export-control boundaries for technical data and drawings.
Our full Central Ohio service area and local proof.
Day-to-day IT operations and help desk across Central Ohio.
The same manufacturing practice in Northeast Ohio.
Our full manufacturing security and IT practice.
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