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 -- dramatically reducing technical complexity while maintaining compliance.
Midwatch is a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) built on Google Cloud Platform -- a FedRAMP-authorized environment -- and configured to CMMC Level 2 standards. 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.
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. You still need a documentation program -- policies, procedures, an SSP, a POA&M. DCG's consulting team can build that alongside the enclave deployment, or you can bring your own existing program.
Printing and scanning CUI is one of the most overlooked compliance gaps in the enclave model. If a user prints a CUI document through a corporate printer, that document is now outside the enclave boundary and the compliance perimeter is broken.
DCG developed the VIPR -- a proprietary input/output device that allows users to print and scan CUI without exposing the corporate network or breaking the enclave boundary. We do not know of another firm in the market that has solved this problem.
Why this matters: The print/scan problem is specifically called out in CMMC assessments. Enclaves that don't address it have a gap in their evidence package. Midwatch with VIPR does not.
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.
Midwatch is not a complete substitute for a compliance program. The enclave handles the technical controls. You still need policies, procedures, an SSP, and an evidence locker. DCG's consulting team can build the full program alongside Midwatch, or assist with the documentation if you have partial work in place.
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.
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