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Basic Concepts Retains Sales and Makes New Investments Following SCMEP’s CMMC Guidance and Preparation

About

Located in Anderson, South Carolina, Justrite Safety Group is the parent company of Basic Concepts Inc. At this location, Basic Concepts is the world leader in portable spill containment products that help protect the environment. This company was started by a WWII veteran who served with the famed 10th Mountain Division. Today, they provide many of these products to the U.S. Military in support of their mission.

The Challenge

As a requirement of doing business with the Department of Defense (DOD), Basic Concepts needed to be CMMC Level 3 compliant. Cybersecurity threats and the protection of information have become critically important to the national infrastructure and defense supply chain. Protecting access to controlled information that may be used in the production of parts and products utilized by the U.S. Military, the federal government, and the OEMs that support the defense supply chain is significant.
It’s great that SCMEP advertised this grant to its members. We were going to have to do this work anyway, but the grant, their partnerships with providers to facilitate the audit, and their continued follow up made this process so much easier than going alone. We appreciate the work SCMEP does with SC manufacturers to make our state thrive.
— Todd Beak, General Manager

MEP's Role

The company was awarded the SC-CAP grant to assist in the achievement of CMMC level 3 compliance. The overall focus of level 3 is good cyber hygiene and protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI). The assessment assessed whether the company had implemented proper process management, and if it demonstrated the management of activities for practice implementation. Basic Concepts also had to demonstrate good cyber hygiene as specified by NIST SP 800-171, as well as additional practices from other standards.

 

SCMEP, part of the MEP National Network™, was able to provide services to address the management and administration of a controls effectiveness and policy and procedure assessment concerning the protection of CUI as well as general information security best practice. In addition to assessing current state/progress, the primary objective was to supply support in documentation creation, accurately define responsibilities (amongst vendors, software, managed service providers), and provide sound, up to date and accurate guidance in building out a successful CUI program.

Created October 11, 2024