Dynamic SSP & POA&M from Live Telemetry

Every existing SSP generator — Steele Compliance, CISA templates, GRC platforms, consulting-firm spreadsheets — works the same way: a human answers questions about their environment and the tool formats the answers into an SSP document. The result reflects what the human believes is true about their environment. MDRwatchdog generates the SSP from what is actually happening on the endpoint right now. A control that maps to agent heartbeat is marked as implemented because the agent is sending heartbeats — not because someone typed ‘yes’ into a form. A control that maps to incident detection is marked as implemented because real incidents have been detected and sealed to the audit chain — with evidence an assessor can verify.

The novel method is: generating a NIST SP 800-171 System Security Plan and Plan of Action and Milestones directly from continuous endpoint telemetry, where control coverage is calculated from sealed audit evidence rather than human attestation, and where the documents update in real time as the underlying telemetry changes. No prior tool performs this method. The combination of live telemetry ingestion, cryptographically sealed evidence, real-time control coverage calculation, and automated SSP/POA&M generation as a single continuous pipeline is novel.

The POA&M is generated from real detected gaps. If a control requires monitoring for unauthorized access attempts and no agent is reporting relevant event types, that gap appears in the POA&M with the specific control number, the gap description, and the evidence (or lack of evidence) from the audit chain. If the gap is remediated — the agent starts reporting — the control moves from POA&M to the SSP automatically. The document is always current with the actual state of the environment.

Yes. The SPRS score is calculated from the NIST 800-171 self-assessment, which maps to the same 110 controls the SSP covers. As controls are evidenced by live telemetry, the score updates. As gaps are remediated, the score improves. The score MDRwatchdog produces reflects the actual state of your controls, not a point-in-time self-assessment that goes stale the moment it is submitted.

Yes. The CMMC assessment process requires an accurate SSP. A dynamically generated SSP that reflects the actual state of the environment is more accurate than a static document that reflects what someone believed was true when they answered a questionnaire six months ago. The SSP produced by MDRwatchdog includes references to the sealed audit evidence for each evidenced control, so the assessor can verify the control coverage independently.