ITAR Compliance Security Auditing

The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) impose strict requirements on how defense-related technical data and defense articles are handled, stored, and transmitted. For aerospace and defense contractors, ITAR compliance isn't a nice-to-have — it's a legal obligation with severe penalties for violations, including criminal prosecution, debarment, and fines up to $1 million per violation. Our ITAR security audits evaluate your facility's physical and cybersecurity measures to ensure controlled technical data is properly protected from unauthorized access, particularly by foreign nationals.

• Physical Security Measures: We assess your facility's physical protections for ITAR-controlled materials and information, including secure storage areas, visitor control and escort policies, access logs, clean desk policies, and destruction procedures for controlled documents. • Cybersecurity Controls: ITAR data is classified as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), requiring compliance with NIST SP 800-171 cybersecurity controls. We evaluate your network security, access controls, encryption, and data handling procedures. This aligns with CMMC Level 2 requirements. • U.S. Persons Access Control: We verify that your organization has robust systems to ensure only U.S. citizens or permanent residents have access to ITAR-controlled data — both physically and on your network. This includes employee screening procedures and access management for foreign national employees. • Export Control Procedures: We review your technology control plans, deemed export procedures, and export classification processes to ensure compliance with export control requirements.

Our military background gives us a unique advantage in ITAR security assessments. Military security operations involve the same principles that ITAR demands: strict access control, protection of classified information, personnel security, and defense-in-depth strategies. This isn't theoretical knowledge — it's operational experience. When we assess your facility's ITAR security posture, we're applying the same standards that protect national security assets.