Protect the CUI You've Identified.
Midwatch is a purpose-built secure enclave operated by DCG as your External Service Provider. Rather than rebuilding your entire infrastructure, Midwatch isolates only the systems and users handling CUI, which dramatically reduces technical complexity while maintaining compliance.
Midwatch is a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) built on Google Cloud Platform, configured to CMMC Level 2 standards and FedRAMP Moderate equivalent. DCG operates it as your External Service Provider. Your users access Midwatch through a secure session for any work involving Controlled Unclassified Information. Your corporate network stays out of scope.
Midwatch is FedRAMP Moderate equivalent per the DoD CIO memorandum on FedRAMP Moderate equivalency (Dec 2023) and holds the FedRAMP Ready designation (Moderate; FedRAMP Marketplace ID FR2618648262).
The enclave approach works because it isolates the CUI environment from the rest of your operations. Instead of trying to bring your entire enterprise up to CMMC standards, which is expensive, disruptive, and often unnecessary, you put your CUI work inside Midwatch, and DCG handles the infrastructure, monitoring, and compliance operations.
You get a compliant environment. You don't get a months-long IT migration project.
The concept is straightforward. The engineering behind it is not. Here is how Midwatch works in practice.
Stays exactly as it is. Midwatch does not require you to migrate your email, your file servers, your ERP, or your endpoints to a government-grade platform. Your existing infrastructure stays out of the compliance boundary.
A separate, secure VDI environment where all CUI-related work happens. Users log in via a secure session when they need to access, create, or transmit CUI. DCG manages the environment, monitors it continuously, and keeps it compliant.
Midwatch handles the technical controls and delivers a Shared Responsibility Matrix covering roughly 80% of CMMC requirements, so the rest of your compliance program gets a lot lighter. For the remaining pieces, like maintaining documentation, your SSP, and your POA&M, DCG's expert consulting team has you covered. Or bring your own.
Printing, scanning, and manufacturing from CUI is one of the most overlooked compliance gaps in the enclave model. If a user prints a CUI drawing through a corporate printer, or sends it to a CNC machine or a 3D printer on the shop floor, that work is now outside the enclave boundary and the compliance perimeter is broken.
DCG developed the VIPR, a proprietary input/output device that lets users print, scan, and run CNC and additive manufacturing (3D printing) jobs on CUI articles without exposing the corporate network or breaking the enclave boundary.
Why this matters: Enclaves that do not address the on-prem portion of their printing or on-site workloads have a gap in their security boundary. Midwatch with VIPR does not have this problem. It addresses this problem elegantly.
DIB organizations below approximately $25M gross revenue typically cannot staff a full-time security team or afford enterprise security stacks. Midwatch delivers enterprise-grade compliance infrastructure at a price point that works.
Manufacturers and defense contractors that have IT support but don't have a dedicated security team. Midwatch takes on the technical compliance burden so internal IT can focus on operational systems.
Organizations with existing Microsoft, Google, or legacy environments who want to isolate their CUI work without rebuilding their enterprise infrastructure from scratch. The enclave handles CUI. Everything else stays as is.
Most DIB contractors are told they must migrate their entire environment to a government-grade platform. Most don't need to. Here is why the enclave approach often makes more sense.
Book a demo and we will walk you through the enclave environment, the VIPR, and how Midwatch fits into a complete CMMC compliance program for your specific situation.
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