Defense Industrial Base

Prove what was true on the day you signed.

Every year an officer at your company signs a NIST SP 800-171 affirmation under False Claims Act liability. Your assessor needs defensible evidence behind that signature. We produce it: a read-only harvest of your Microsoft and Windows configuration, sealed and dated, and a record you can replay when someone asks what was true.

  • Sealed affirmation snapshotthe binder your officer hands counsel
  • Good-faith remediation ledgerevery drift event, dated and closed
  • SPRS baseline you can defendeach deduction traced to its evidence

Engagements start at $7,500 for a 10-day scoping sprint, credited in full toward year one. No login to your tenant is required to start.

Assessing on behalf of clients? Scrutexity for assessment organizations

Affirmation sealVerified
Affirming official
Senior company official
Sealed
18 Aug 2026, 14:02 UTC
Framework
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2
Machine-proven
6 of 110
Routed to human review
103

Merkle root

9f2c4a71b8e05d3612ff8a94c7d0b1e63a5f8c2d94e17b60aa3f5c81d2e94b70

Illustrative sample, not customer data. Reconstructable for any date the record covers.

DFARS 252.204-7012 REQUIREMENT:

"Annual affirmation of compliance by a Senior Official of the company."

The IT Director does not sign the SPRS score.

The CISO does not sign the SPRS score.

The President, CEO, or CFO signs it under penalty of perjury and False Claims Act liability.


Scrutexity is not built for the IT Director.

It is built to protect the signature of the Senior Official.

The third party who used to check is gone. The obligation is not.

In July 2026 the Department of Defense suspended CMMC Phase II. Requiring activities may designate self-assessment only.

DFARS 252.204-7012 did not move. Neither did the 110 controls, the SPRS posting requirement, or the annual affirmation signed by a senior official of your company.

The risk did not disappear. It relocated onto one signature, with nothing standing between it and the Department of Justice.

United States v. LOGZONE, June 2026

$507,144

Settled with the Department of Justice under the False Claims Act. The case was built on self-assessed SPRS scores.

DOJ Office of Public Affairs

[ COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE WEIGHT ]

MetricStandard GRC DashboardScrutexity Affirmation Seal
FormatWeb UI / ScreenshotRFC 8785 Canonical JSON
StateEphemeral (Updates live)Frozen (Immutable)
VerificationVendor API ClaimSHA-256 Cryptographic Hash
FCA AdmissibilityHearsayContemporaneous Record
ProtectsIT BudgetSenior Official Signature

Four artifacts your counsel can actually use.

01

Affirmation Snapshot

The environment frozen, hashed and timestamped on the day your senior official signs. Everyone else sells the score. We seal the date.

SHA-256 · RFC 8785 · Verify at scrutexity.com/verify/9f2c4a

02

Good Faith Ledger

Every drift event, who was notified, when it was closed, sealed in order. What sinks a contractor is rarely non-compliance. It is knowing and doing nothing.

// GOOD FAITH LEDGER : APPEND ONLY : ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE

[2026-05-12T14:02:00Z] SEAL GENERATED. MFA: ENFORCED. FIPS: ENFORCED.

[2026-06-09T09:14:22Z] DRIFT DETECTED. Control 3.5.3 (MFA) disabled on legacy tenant.

[2026-06-09T09:14:23Z] NOTIFICATION DISPATCHED to CFO & Outside Counsel.

[2026-06-11T11:00:00Z] REMEDIATION VERIFIED. MFA re-enforced. Ledger closed.

Append only · ordered · signed

03

Evidence-compiled SSP

Implementation statements generated only from harvested configuration, each citing the hash it came from. A statement with nothing behind it does not get written.

Citation enforced at compile time

04

Trust Passport

A signed token your prime verifies without an account and without seeing anything underneath. Alter one field and it stops verifying.

ECDSA P-256 · JWS

Fail closed

Most of the standard is not ours to score.

Configuration telemetry can prove 6 of 110 controls. The rest turn on scope, policy, process and judgement. Every one of them returns HUMAN_REVIEW_REQUIRED and deducts its full weight.

Run the engine against a flawless environment and it recovers 18 of the 313 points in play. The score lands at -185.

A vendor claiming to automate 110 controls is describing something the standard does not permit. Ask them which controls their engine refuses to score.

THE SCREENSHOT IS A LIABILITY.

For five years, RPOs and C3PAOs have assessed the DIB by taking screenshots of Microsoft Entra ID and pasting them into Word documents.

A screenshot proves nothing. It has no timestamp, no chain of custody, and no cryptographic proof of origin. It is easily forged and easily dismissed.

Scrutexity replaces the screenshot with the hash. We do not capture the UI. We harvest the API, canonicalize the payload, and seal the Merkle root.

engine.evaluate_all()110 controls

Resolved deterministically

  • 3.5.3Multifactor authentication
  • 3.13.11FIPS-validated cryptography
  • 3.14.2Malicious code protection
  • 3.1.8Limit unsuccessful logon attempts
  • 3.1.10Session lock with pattern-hiding displays
  • 3.1.11Terminate user sessions automatically

Refused · routed to human review

  • 3.1.1Limit system access to authorized users-5
  • 3.1.5Employ least privilege-3
  • 3.4.1Establish baseline configurations-5
  • 3.8.3Sanitize media before disposal-5
  • 3.11.1Periodically assess risk-3
  • 3.12.1Periodically assess security controls-5
  • 3.14.6Monitor systems for attacks-5

Priced against the settlement it is meant to prevent.

One year of Affirmation Defense is roughly six percent of the LOGZONE settlement, and that settlement did not include counsel.

Entry

Scoping Sprint

$7.5k

One time. Credited in full against year one.

  • Enclave boundary definition
  • Read-only baseline harvest
  • Written record of what you cannot prove
Retained

Affirmation Defense

$30k

Per year.

  • Continuous read-only harvest
  • Sealed monthly snapshots
  • Good Faith Ledger of drift and remediation
  • SSP and POA&M maintained against live evidence
  • Affirmation Day Snapshot

Start with what you cannot prove.

Twenty minutes. We will tell you which controls apply to an enclave rather than your whole company.

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