Cybersecurity Company in Denver

CMMC level is the dominant variable on Denver aerospace security work. A CMMC 2.0 Level 2 readiness program for a Lockheed Space, Sierra Space, or BAE Space and Mission Systems (formerly Ball) supplier covers NIST SP 800-171 controls, SSP, POA&M, a Customer Responsibility Matrix, and pre-assessment with a C3PAO walkthrough, and runs five to ten months depending on starting maturity. CMMC 2.0 Level 3 costs materially more because it adds the NIST SP 800-172 enhanced security requirements for the most sensitive CUI, requires a government-led assessment, and the controls are non-trivial. ITAR-aware architecture work is scoped on top. Denver sits below DC and Northern Virginia but above other Mountain West metros because of the Lockheed and Sierra Space talent premium and the proximity to Coalfire (which is Denver-headquartered).

CMMC 2.0 Level 2 implements the 110 controls in NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 across fourteen control families. For suppliers handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) — which covers most technical data flowing from Lockheed Space, Sierra Space, BAE Space and Mission Systems (former Ball), and Raytheon Aurora — third-party assessment by a C3PAO under DIBCAC supervision is required. We produce the System Security Plan (SSP), Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M), Shared Responsibility Matrix for any cloud components, and the evidence binder a C3PAO assessor will accept. ITAR section 120.62 routing rules apply to technical data — only US persons may access, which means our Edmonton and Chandigarh engineers do not touch ITAR-classified material; we route those engagements through US-citizen staff exclusively. EAR-controlled data has its own routing rules we document per engagement.

Colorado SB 24-205 (signed 17 May 2024, effective 1 February 2026) is the first US state law to regulate high-risk artificial intelligence systems. It applies to developers and deployers of AI systems that make or are a substantial factor in making consequential decisions affecting consumers in education, employment, financial or lending services, essential government services, healthcare, housing, insurance, and legal services. Obligations include a risk management program aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or ISO/IEC 42001, impact assessments before deployment and after substantial modification, consumer notification (including the right to appeal and human review), and reporting algorithmic discrimination to the Colorado Attorney General within 90 days of discovery. Our deliverable includes the risk management program documentation, the impact assessment template, and the consumer notification workflow. The Colorado AG has exclusive enforcement authority.

Colorado is the longest-running adult-use cannabis market in the United States (legal since 2014, retail since 2014) and operates under the Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) license framework plus mandatory Metrc seed-to-sale tracking statewide. We build cyber programs that integrate with Metrc via the state\'s REST API, segment license-holder personally identifiable information (MED licenses include detailed personal histories), implement the Bank Secrecy Act suspicious activity reporting workflow for any banked operators (most use credit unions like Safe Harbor), and maintain a 280E-aware accounting boundary so federal tax exposure stays manageable. Payment processing is a separate problem because the major card networks restrict direct cannabis acceptance — we work with cashless ATM, ACH-only, and emerging crypto rails per client risk tolerance. Most Colorado cannabis operators run our program inside AWS us-west-2 with Metrc API integration locked to a documented service account.

Yes. Western Union\'s Denver headquarters anchors a money-transmitter fintech cluster, and Ibotta (which IPO\'d in April 2024) plus HomeAdvisor and Angi provide the consumer-marketplace fintech base. We deliver PCI-DSS v4.0 readiness with tokenisation-led scope reduction (Spreedly, Stripe Issuing, or Adyen), SOC 2 Type II with the twelve-month observation window, and the SEC Item 1.05 Form 8-K cyber incident disclosure workflow that Ibotta and other Denver public registrants now have to maintain. For money-transmitter clients we also align with FinCEN BSA/AML expectations, state money transmitter licensing requirements across all 50 states, and the federal Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions screening rules. Colorado Privacy Act applies in parallel — the CPA was effective 1 July 2023 and requires opt-out signal recognition (Universal Opt-Out Mechanism).

Coalfire is one of the top three CMMC C3PAO assessors in the United States and is Denver-headquartered. For Lockheed Space, Sierra Space, BAE Space and Mission Systems (former Ball), and Boeing Centennial supplier work, this matters because the assessor relationship is local and accessible — on-site visits, follow-up walkthroughs, and remediation conversations happen in real time rather than across time zones. We build our CMMC 2.0 Level 2 evidence packages to the format Coalfire expects, which removes a substantial round of back-and-forth that happens with assessors who have not seen our SSP template before. We also work with Schellman, A-LIGN, and FutureFeed — but Coalfire is the Denver default for aerospace supply chain.

ITAR section 120.62 defines US persons and access controls for technical data on the United States Munitions List. Satellite and space technology covered by Category XV of the USML (spacecraft, related articles) requires that only US persons access the technical data. Our Edmonton (Canada) and Chandigarh (India) engineers do not touch ITAR-controlled material — those engagements run through US-citizen staff exclusively, with documented ITAR routing rules in our access management system, US-persons-only Slack channels, and US-persons-only GitHub teams. The State Department\'s DDTC manages ITAR enforcement and the penalty exposure is criminal — we treat ITAR routing as a hard system control, not a policy aspiration. For dual-use space technology under EAR Commerce Control List Category 9, we follow EAR rules which are more permissive but still controlled.

The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) was effective 1 July 2023 and shares the post-CCPA pattern of access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-out rights — but has three Colorado-specific features that matter operationally. First, the CPA requires recognition of a Universal Opt-Out Mechanism (UOOM), and the Colorado AG approved Global Privacy Control as a UOOM in April 2024 — your site must honour the GPC header by July 2024. Second, sensitive data requires opt-in consent (not opt-out), which differs from California. Third, profiling requires a Data Protection Assessment for any decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect — this is where the new Colorado AI Act stacks on top. We document each in your CPA compliance package and align with the CPRA, TDPSA, and VCDPA where possible so you operate one unified privacy program rather than four parallel ones.