Managed Microsoft 365 GCC High enclaves for the defense industrial base — and the governed AI that runs safely inside them. An SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Design, build, migration, and ongoing management of CMMC-ready GCC High environments for contractors handling CUI and ITAR-controlled data. Tenant provisioning and hardening, Entra ID and Conditional Access, Defender and Purview, migration with spillage controls, and sustained operations after go-live. The tenant is registered to the client; Optimal manages it.
Implementation of the 110-control set inside the enclave, System Security Plan authoring, POA&M tracking, evidence collection, and a Shared Responsibility Matrix documenting the External Service Provider relationship required under 32 CFR 170.
A Zero Trust access layer for AI in the cloud the client already licenses — one authenticated gateway to every approved model, per-key virtual credentials, fail-closed prompt and response guardrails, default-deny egress, and a request-ID-joined audit trail. Self-hostable and client-owned.
Structured evaluation and offensive red-team testing of AI-enabled systems and agents — prompt injection, system-prompt extraction, model and context manipulation, data and model exfiltration, and excessive-agency chains. Measured to the OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and the NIST AI RMF.
Most GCC High providers migrate mailboxes and stop. Most AI security firms have never stood up an enclave. Optimal does both, which is why the governed path can be made the fastest path instead of the one users route around.
Not a hosted enclave. The GCC High subscription, the data, the keys, and the audit logs are registered to the client. Replacing Optimal does not mean migrating CUI out of a vendor's boundary.
The control pattern Optimal implements is open source and inspectable before an engagement starts, and the client keeps operating it afterward. NINELINE, the AI-native supply-chain security reference implementation, runs inside the client boundary and is air-gap capable.
Optimal engineers environments to be assessment-ready. Optimal is not a C3PAO, does not perform certified CMMC assessments, and does not grant Authority to Operate. Building the environment and grading it are deliberately separate roles.
References available on request. Optimal does not publish customer names or engagement details without written permission — including, and especially, for work inside a CUI boundary.
Optimal engineers environments to be assessment-ready. Optimal is not a C3PAO, does not perform certified CMMC assessments, and does not grant an Authority to Operate.
