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CRITICAL FACILITY RESILIENCE
AUDITING AND COMPLIANCE
"With over 30 years of experience in mission-critical facilities and 6 years as a mission-critical facility auditor with Vanguard, I have witnessed firsthand the trajectory of the computing world towards a potential crisis if corrective measures are not taken. The development of hyper scale data has resulted in significant inefficiencies concerning energy and water use, along with deficiencies in infrastructure, safety, engineering, utilities, and sustainability."
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THE NEW STANDARD IN DATA-CENTER ASSURANCE
Physical-Layer Evidence for CMMC, DFARS, and Cyber-Insurance Compliance
Dr. Eric Woodell
Mission Critical Facilities Analyst
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The Problem: Paper Resilience Has Failed
Every colocation provider promises “five nines” uptime.
None of them are required to prove it.
Beneath the glossy SLAs, most data centers quietly defer maintenance — reducing costs, inflating margins, and leaving clients exposed.
Under CMMC 2.0, DFARS 7012/7021, and the False Claims Act, this isn’t just bad engineering.
It’s a compliance failure.
The result:
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85% of outages trace back to unverified maintenance.
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C3PAOs and assessors are forced to assume controls are effective.
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E&O insurance carriers are pricing risk they can’t quantify.
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Contractors could face False Claims exposure for outages they didn’t cause.
The Solution: Amerruss AR-01 Resilience Validation
AR-01 transforms “trust-based” infrastructure into evidence-based assurance.
We verify the Availability, Maintenance, and Configuration Management control families (MA / RA / CM / CA) through timestamped, physical-layer validation — confirming real-world performance against policy and procedure.
Delivered Output:
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Field-verified maintenance and switchgear evidence
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Defect logs and photographic validation
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Corrective-action tracking mapped to NIST 800-171
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Auditor defensibility documentation for C3PAOs, insurers, and government contracts
→ AR-01 closes the gap between paper compliance and operational truth.
Who We Serve
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C3PAOs & Assessors — reduce legal exposure with verified field evidence
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Contractors & MSPs — prove CMMC Level 2/3 availability and maintenance controls
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Cyber-Insurance Underwriters — quantify risk using objective physical data
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Enterprises & Colos — rebuild client trust with independent third-party validation
Proven Results
Over 6½ years, Amerruss designed and executed the resilience program for Vanguard’s global portfolio — 60 sites, Tier II–III, and zero unplanned outages.
That outcome is statistically impossible without verified maintenance — and proves the AR-01 framework works.
“Trusted by a global financial firm managing $7.5 T in assets — zero unplanned outages over 6½ years.”
Why Now
CMMC enforcement begins November 2025.
SOC-2 and SLA-based assurances are no longer enough.
Federal contractors, MSPs, and colocation providers must demonstrate operational integrity — not assumptions.
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Amerruss LLC provides the only validated path forward.
The cost of failure is very high!
The cost of failure is very high!
The frequency of failure is too high!
OUR SERVICES
From the small to the seemingly overwhelming, we can help you with
Operational Excellence
When you need an assessment of how well-protected your critical assets are, we are the BEST in the industry at delivering accurate and unbiased results.
Infrastructure and Efficiencies
Whether assessing your infrastructure topologies, efficiencies, cooling or other engineering aspects of your critical facilities, we can help, with 35 years of real-world experience.
Change Management
While not a glamorous subject, this is a vital aspect to be mastered in the mission-critical arena. We can help your program to be more effective, improving reliability and efficiency of mission-critical operations.
Vanguard's Success Could Be Your Success
Our success story with Vanguard, a global financial giant with over $7.5 trillion in assets, epitomizes our capability. Over 6 ½ years, Vanguard's extensive portfolio of more than 60 sites, including Tier-II and Tier-III facilities, experienced zero unplanned outages, a feat considered statistically impossible according to industry standards.
The Amerruss Resilience Program offers a profound value proposition: guaranteeing data center uptime in line with their Tier level specifications, with the ultimate aim of achieving 100% uptime. Our approach is not just about compliance but about exceeding industry standards and expectations, a necessity underscored by the current landscape marked by potential rolling blackouts and escalating cyber threats.
Our program is based on deep technical expertise, real-time feedback through quarterly audits, and a proactive stance on maintenance and risk management.
For companies reliant on data centers for their operational continuity and competitive edge, the choice is clear. The Amerruss Resilience Program stands as a beacon of reliability and security in an uncertain and often opaque industry.
WHY CHOOSE US
In the past five years we have performed >800 audits of mission-critical facilities, through which $40 Trillion of assets have flowed. In 2022 alone, this included >200 domestic audits and 12 international audits on equipment supporting more than $7.5 Trillion.
We are effective in auditing mission-critical facilities from IDF to full scale colocation data centers, and everything in between, with proven expertise in power distribution, cooling and fire/life-safety systems.
We are highly skilled in technical audits of ongoing mission-critical facilities operations based on decades of direct operational experience with the equipment in question, to ensure client expectations are fully met. Where opportunities for improvement exist, we are able to facilitate them, smoothly and efficiently.
We have proven experience in mission-critical facilities operations including programs for maintenance deployment, retrofits, staffing and training. This experience and knowledge resulted in the book "Mission-Critical Facilities Management."
The training program published in the back of the book was adopted by Microsoft, and is their "Critical Environment Technician" training program.
RECENT ARTICLES
Origin & Terminology Statement
The language of resilience validation began here.
Since 2023, Amerruss LLC, founded by Dr. Eric Woodell, has introduced the key frameworks now shaping CMMC and physical-layer assurance: AR-01 (Availability Resilience Validation), Resilience Validation™, Below-the-Rack FedRAMP™, and the Greybeard Standard™.
These concepts link physical maintenance evidence to federal compliance controls (MA, RA, CA) and define a new, post-AI labor model for expert field auditors.
First published through Amerruss research and industry articles, they establish the foundation for verifiable infrastructure resilience.
Concepts and terminology originated by Dr. Eric Woodell / Amerruss LLC (2023 – 2025).
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