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Assessment and Implementation, Without the Gap

The compliance market is split between assessors who cannot implement and providers who implement without understanding the assessment. We work with an accredited C3PAO to close that gap — and we take no fee from any of them.

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Independence Is the Whole Product

The conflict nobody advertises

A referral fee flowing between an assessor and the firm that prepared you is a conflict of interest under the Cyber AB Code of Professional Conduct, and it puts the thing you are buying — a defensible certification — at risk. It is also common enough that you should ask about it directly, of us and of anyone else you are considering.

TRANUSA takes no fee from any C3PAO, under any circumstances. Not a referral fee, not a rebate, not a reciprocal arrangement. Your assessor's independence is the entire value of the assessment. We are not going to sell it for a commission.

How the two roles fit together

An accredited C3PAO conducts the independent NIST SP 800-171 assessment and scores it. Those findings flow into our remediation workflow — the same findings, without a translation layer, without a second discovery exercise, and without the six weeks that usually disappear between an assessor delivering a report and an implementer understanding it.

What does not happen is the assessor taking direction from us, or us influencing the scoring. Those are separate engagements with separate accountability, and they stay that way.

Independent assessment
Conducted by an accredited C3PAO against all 110 practices. Scored, documented, and defensible to the Department of Defense.
Findings to remediation
Every gap flows into our program. No re-discovery, no handoff friction, no arguing about whose report is right.
Implementation
TRANUSA closes the gaps using a stack that has been validated against the framework, in our own environment first.
Pre-assessment review
Before the formal assessment, the findings get reviewed again — so the audit is a confirmation rather than a discovery.

Which one is TRANUSA?

We are the implementer and the program operator. We are not a C3PAO and we cannot certify you — no firm can do both for the same client, and any firm implying otherwise is describing something that does not exist. We get you to compliant and audit-ready; an accredited assessor certifies.

Naming a specific C3PAO partner on this page is subject to their agreement. If you would like to know who we work with and how the pipeline runs in practice, ask on a readiness call and we will tell you plainly.

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