CMMC Level 2 is an assessment of your organization, not your servers. But when an assessor walks through the 110 requirements of NIST SP 800-171, a surprising number of them land on hardware decisions made months earlier, at purchase time.
Most CMMC guidance assumes a data center: badge readers, escorted visitors, a rack you can lock. A mission computer in a vehicle, a sensor processor on a ship or a test rig at a forward site has none of that, yet the same 110 requirements still apply to any CUI it holds.
The scoping guidance helps. Many deployed systems qualify as Specialized Assets, which changes the paperwork burden without removing it. The hardware does the rest. Removable, lockable drive canisters let the data leave with the operator while the chassis stays in place or ships for repair. Tamper-evident seals and intrusion detection give you the field equivalent of an access log. Self-encrypting drives with FIPS 140-validated modules mean a lost system is not automatically lost CUI, and crypto-erase turns sanitization into something that takes seconds when a platform is being pulled under time pressure.
Our guide explains how to scope tactical systems, which physical and media protections matter most outside the wire, and how our rugged servers support them: lockable removable drive bays, tamper-evident and intrusion-detection options, and zeroization by crypto-erase, NIST SP 800-88 block erase, or hardware, remote and removal triggers.
Read the guide: Protecting CUI on rugged and tactical systems outside the data center