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Virginia Compliance Automation
CIS compliance for Virginia, the federal IT corridor.
FedRAMP, CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, Virginia CDPA, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance automated for the federal contractor, GovTech, and BFSI tenants of Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
Quick Facts
Virginia compliance at a glance, in one place.
The regulators, frameworks and deployment options that shape compliance in Virginia.
- CISGuard Virginia focus
- Northern Virginia (Tysons, Reston, Arlington), Hampton Roads
- Primary sectors
- Federal contractors, GovTech, defense industrial base, BFSI HQ, naval / shipbuilding
- State law
- Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), effective 1 January 2023
- Federal frameworks
- FedRAMP Moderate / High, CMMC Level 2 / 3, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171
- Data residency
- AWS GovCloud US-East, AWS us-east-1 (Northern Virginia), Azure Government
- Air-gapped support
- Yes, including IL5 / IL6 and SCIF-compatible
- Sample customer profiles
- FedRAMP CSPs, DIB contractors, Capital One-scale BFSI, naval shipyards
- Onboarding languages
- English
Regulatory Landscape
Compliance in Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.
Virginia hosts the densest concentration of federal IT contractors, government cloud services, and defense-industrial-base operators in the United States. Northern Virginia (Tysons Corner, Reston, Herndon, McLean, Arlington, Crystal City, Alexandria) is the operational center for Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One HQ, SAIC, Leidos, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics IT, CACI, Peraton, Mitre, Accenture Federal Services, and the federal-civilian customer footprint that spans the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Department of Defense, and the broader federal civilian agency estate. Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News) adds the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, NASA Langley, Newport News Shipbuilding, and the defense-shipbuilding cluster. The compliance landscape is the heaviest in the United States: FedRAMP Moderate / High for cloud service providers, CMMC Level 2 / 3 for DIB, NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 for federal agencies and their contractors, NIST 800-171 for handlers of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), plus Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA, effective January 2023). CISGuard runs on AWS GovCloud and Azure Government with full air-gapped support.
Frameworks
Frameworks CISGuard maps for Virginia.
Each scan generates per-framework reports showing satisfied / partial / not-met status.
| Framework | Scope | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| FedRAMP Moderate / High → | Cloud Service Providers serving federal customers | GSA FedRAMP PMO |
| NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 → | Federal agencies and contractor information systems | NIST |
| NIST 800-171 / CMMC L2 → | DIB contractors handling CUI | DoD CIO / Cyber AB |
| Virginia CDPA | Controllers and processors of Virginia personal data | Virginia Attorney General |
| HIPAA Security Rule → | Northern Virginia health systems and TRICARE contractors | US HHS / OCR |
| ITAR / EAR | Export-controlled defense and dual-use technology | US State / Commerce Departments |
Data Residency
Sovereignty and residency, solved by architecture.
Virginia federal contractors and DIB tenants operate under FedRAMP authorization boundaries, CMMC scope definitions, and ITAR / EAR export controls that mandate US-person access and US-soil processing. CISGuard's AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and on-premises deployment options keep scan data inside US sovereign infrastructure, with air-gapped support for the IL5 / IL6 and SCIF-compatible workloads common in Northern Virginia.
Deployment Options
Three ways to deploy in Virginia.
Option 01
AWS GovCloud US-East / US-West
Single-tenant CISGuard inside the customer's AWS GovCloud account. FedRAMP-eligible alignment, US-person only access by AWS GovCloud design.
Option 02
Azure Government
Single-tenant CISGuard inside the customer's Azure Government tenant. Suits Microsoft-standardized federal contractors.
Option 03
Air-gapped (IL5 / IL6 / SCIF)
For DoD IL5 / IL6 workloads, intelligence-community SCIF environments, and any classified or compartmented program. Quarterly signed-media updates.
Frequently Asked
Virginia questions, answered directly.
Does CISGuard run inside AWS GovCloud and Azure Government?
Yes. CISGuard deploys as a single-tenant workload inside customer-controlled AWS GovCloud US-East / US-West regions and Azure Government tenants. Scan data, drift events, and audit trail stay inside the customer's GovCloud / Azure Gov boundary, satisfying the FedRAMP-eligible US-person access expectations Virginia federal contractors operate under.
How does CISGuard accelerate FedRAMP continuous monitoring (ConMon)?
CISGuard's continuous CIS benchmark scans + NIST 800-53 control mapping produce the monthly POA&M evidence FedRAMP ConMon expects, with control-by-control status against the Moderate or High baseline. Virginia FedRAMP CSPs can use CISGuard to compress POA&M generation from days to hours and to maintain continuous evidence between annual 3PAO assessments.
Can CISGuard support CMMC Level 2 / 3 for Northern Virginia DIB contractors?
Yes. CISGuard automates CIS scans mapped to NIST 800-171 Rev. 2 / Rev. 3 controls (Level 2) and the enhanced controls Level 3 requires, with the configuration, change-management, and audit-trail evidence a C3PAO assessor walks through during the certification engagement. Northern Virginia DIB contractors can turn to CISGuard for both pre-assessment readiness and ongoing continuous compliance.
Ready to deploy in Virginia?
Our compliance engineers have helped organizations across Virginia achieve regulatory readiness through a seamless, fully managed deployment.