What's included and excluded

N-central for CMMC Compliance provides a strong set of capabilities designed to help organizations meet key cybersecurity requirements outlined in the CMMC framework. The platorm focuses on secure device management, user authentication, monitoring, automation, and auditing, enabling IT teams to maintain control over their network environment while supporting compliance goals.

Included capabilities

User and Access Management

  • Customer management

  • User authentication using local (non-SSO) users

  • User permissions management

  • Domain user management

Device Discovery and Deployment

  • Network device discovery

  • N-central agent installation on endpoint devices:

    • Windows Agent & Probe

    • Linux Agent

    • macOS Agent

Monitoring and Alerting

  • Device monitoring

  • Service monitoring

Integrations

  • PSA/Ticketing integrations (3rd party required to be CMMC compliant)

  • Public inbound REST APIs

Patch and Configuration

  • Patch management

Automation and Scripting

  • Script repository with script management and execution

  • Automation Manager

  • Scheduled tasks using scripts

  • Automation using device filters and rules

Remote Access and Support

  • Direct Support (reactive tools) to access devices from the N-central UI

  • Remote control through Remote Desktop, SSH, and other methods (excluding Take Control)

Authentication and IAM

  • User authentication using a 3rd-party identity provider (non–N-able Login)

Feature Rollout

  • LaunchDarkly

Content Management

  • SIS CDN for N-central agents

Auditing and Reporting

  • Auditing

  • Report manager or data export

Excluded capabilities

  • No upgrade path from N-central to CMMC N-central

  • Trials

  • Integrated Take Control (exploring Take Control standalone FedRAMP)

  • Pendo

  • Analytics

  • Ecoverse / Fusion

  • Assets View

  • UFA

  • N-able Login

  • N-able Login Entra

  • Vulnerability Management

  • New Patch

  • New scripting

  • DMA

  • DNS Filter

  • Ecosystem integrations

  • Integrated Backup (Cove)

  • Intune integration

  • Antivirus – Bitdefender

  • LWT EDR S1

  • Cloud Asset Manager

  • Cloud IT resource monitoring

  • MDM

  • MSP Manager

  • NetPath

  • Topology

  • Warranty Lookup

  • SMS Registration