The Engine Behind Our Speed
PolicyCortex - CMMC Evidence Automation Platform
AeoliTech's promise is to compress your CMMC readiness timeline to approximately eight months. PolicyCortex is how that promise is kept.
What PolicyCortex Is
PolicyCortex is AeoliTech's policy-as-code governance platform, built to automate the control validation, evidence collection, and drift detection that consume the most calendar time in a manual CMMC readiness program.
It is not a product we resell. It is the technology we built and deploy in every AeoliTech CMMC engagement.
PolicyCortex runs as a native integration with Azure, AWS, and GCP, including Azure Government Cloud and M365 GCC/GCC High environments where most DoD contractor CUI environments live.
The Problem It Solves
Manual CMMC readiness takes 12-18 months not because the controls are complicated, but because evidence collection and control validation are time-intensive when done by hand. A compliance analyst manually pulling screenshots of access control configurations, logging every change, and maintaining an up-to-date SSP burns 40-60% of the readiness calendar on documentation tasks that produce no new compliance value.
PolicyCortex automates those tasks. Controls are validated against live system state. Evidence is collected continuously and tagged to CMMC practice areas. When something drifts, a configuration changes, a user is provisioned outside policy, a logging gap appears, PolicyCortex flags it immediately instead of at the next manual review cycle.
How It Connects to CMMC
PolicyCortex is configured during every AeoliTech Acceleration and Evidence Vault engagement to monitor and document against the NIST 800-171 Rev. 3 practice areas that comprise CMMC Level 2:
Access Control (AC)
Policy enforcement rules validate least-privilege configurations, MFA enforcement, and session controls continuously.
Audit & Accountability (AU)
Log collection, retention, and integrity validation are automated and evidence-packaged.
Configuration Management (CM)
Baseline deviations are detected in near-real time, with evidence of corrective action automatically captured.
Identification & Authentication (IA)
Identity governance rules enforce and document authentication standards.
Incident Response (IR)
Playbook automation supports documentation of IR test and execution events.
System & Comms Protection (SC)
Network segmentation and encryption configurations are continuously validated.
All evidence is maintained in a structured vault, organized by CMMC domain, practice, and assessment objective, so that when your C3PAO assessment begins, your evidence package is already complete.
The AeoliTech ↔ PolicyCortex Relationship
AeoliTech is the cleared, founder-led CMMC readiness practice. PolicyCortex is the platform AeoliTech built and uses to deliver engagements faster, with higher evidence quality, than a manual approach can match. They are operated together: AeoliTech provides the cleared engineering expertise and CMMC delivery framework; PolicyCortex provides the automation layer.
PolicyCortex also operates as a standalone platform at policycortex.com for organizations that want to deploy it independently. In every AeoliTech CMMC engagement, it is deployed, configured, and operated by the same cleared engineer leading your readiness program.
Why This Matters
Speed is not our only differentiator, but it is a real one. A CMMC Acceleration engagement with PolicyCortex runs approximately eight months. The same scope, manually executed, runs 12-18 months. For a defense contractor racing a contract award date or a phase-in deadline, four to six months is the difference between competing for the award and watching it go to a certified peer.
Leonard Esere built the controls at MITRE, carried the ATO at LANL, and ran PCI DSS at Frontier Airlines, and then built PolicyCortex to automate the most labor-intensive parts of that same work. The platform is not theoretical. It is the product of 12+ years of hands-on federal compliance delivery.