ATLAS exists to give mid-market organizations meaningful visibility into their digital infrastructure without asking them for live system access or more data than the review actually requires.
Steve Didero, founder — the person who scopes, runs and signs every engagement.
Services available today are delivered manually: you share customer-approved exports and records — with unnecessary personal or regulated information removed or pseudonymized first — and ATLAS processes them locally in an isolated client folder, never in consumer cloud storage. A signed deletion confirmation is issued at close-out, and retention otherwise follows the signed agreement.
The in-development ATLAS engine goes further: it runs inside the customer’s environment or selected cloud perimeter under the chosen deployment method, and is designed to remove its temporary processing workspace after delivery.
The result is a more defensible starting point for organizations that need visibility but cannot casually move financial, employee, network, or intellectual-property data into a boutique operator’s cloud.
Steve Didero founded ATLAS after seeing how much operational risk mid-market organizations carry without realizing it — a pattern he kept running into from the inside, long before he started surfacing it on behalf of clients.
He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served as a supply chain analyst, rising to Sergeant. There he led project control for more than 3,000 equipment acquisition and distribution projects — every one delivered on time and on budget — and built the Power Platform apps, BI dashboards, and audit-record systems that gave leadership real-time visibility into requisitions, helping cut procurement lead time by 15% and sustain a 98% inventory accuracy rate.
He carried that discipline into the private sector as a repair coordinator at Motorola Solutions, and today serves as a data analyst and process-optimization specialist embedded in the ODASW(Log) Supply Directorate, translating frontline logistics pain points into automation roadmaps.
Background and clearance are context for trust and subject-matter fluency. They are not a substitute for an accredited certification, audit credential, or government endorsement.
The CMMC 2.0 Readiness Audit is readiness and gap-remediation consulting only. Official certification requires an accredited C3PAO.
Readiness, Not Certification — official CMMC certification requires an accredited C3PAO.
PHI-bearing engagements depend on a completed BAA workflow, appropriate insurance, and either a completed audit credential or a credentialed partner. We will not present that work as fully mature before those controls are ready.
ATLAS is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the U.S. Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) or any of its components.
