CMMC Level 1 · DefinitionSEC / DEF

Definition

Security Requirement

A CMMC Level 1 term.

Definition

A Level 1 security requirement is one of the fifteen basic safeguarding requirements from FAR 52.204-21(b)(1). They map to seventeen NIST SP 800-171 practices but are displayed and counted as fifteen requirements.

These fifteen are the whole of Level 1. Every one must be MET or N/A. There is no partial pass.

Term identity

Term
Security Requirement
Framework
CMMC · Level 1
Authority
FAR 52.204-21(b)(1)

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