The practice
Three decades of compliance leadership.
Northbend Compliance is Scott Mann's FSO and compliance-coordination practice for federal contractors. The focus is documentation, risk mitigation, and audit readiness, working in coordination with the cybersecurity and assessment professionals who implement and certify.
Scott Mann
Investigative, regulatory compliance, and audit-readiness experience, applied to industrial security.
Scott brings more than 30 years of investigative, regulatory compliance, and audit-readiness experience across various industries. He has seen what an auditor looks for, what a clean record looks like, and how programs drift out of compliance when no one owns the documentation.
He has trained in and applied industrial security, NISPOM, and CMMC frameworks, and built the practice around the part of compliance that is most often neglected: the documentation, the records, the evidence, and the audit readiness that hold a security program together. He works in coordination with Registered Practitioners (RPs), Registered Practitioner Organizations (RPOs), and cybersecurity providers where appropriate, and stays in his lane: compliance leadership and coordination, not cybersecurity implementation.
- FSO / DCSA (Facility Security Officer)
- 30+ yrs investigative, regulatory compliance & audit readiness
- Industrial security & NISPOM
- CMMC framework training & application
- Documentation, risk mitigation & audit readiness
- RP / RPO coordination
How we think
Three convictions that shape the work.
Coordination, not implementation
We facilitate, coordinate, document, and support. We do not implement cybersecurity controls, perform assessments, or issue certifications. We make sure the specialists who do have what they need, and that your records hold up.
Documentation is where compliance lives or dies
A program is only as compliant as its records. Most findings are not about capability, they are about documentation and evidence that was never kept current. That is the work we own.
Built to work with your team
We work alongside your cybersecurity provider, your MSP, and your RP or RPO, complementing them rather than replacing them. Compliance is a team effort, and our job is to coordinate it.
Sister practice
BD-AEC wins the work. Northbend handles the compliance.
Scott also runs BD-AEC, a fractional business development practice for architecture, engineering, and construction firms. Where an AEC firm pursues federal work, the two pair naturally: BD-AEC opens the pipeline, Northbend Compliance handles the FSO and compliance-coordination side.