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Anatomy of a drift disposition

Drift Watch · Week 5 of 12 · September 1, 2026 · by Concura's Lead CMMC assessors

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What should happen when a CUI-relevant setting changes? A mature process has five steps:

Detect the change. Map it to the control and assessment objective it touches. Assess the posture impact. Decide through change control — revert, accept, or update the baseline. Keep the record.

Detection without mapping is noise. Mapping without disposition is a finding waiting to be written. And the record is the difference between "we watch" and "we can prove we watch."

Assessor Notes is the permanent archive of the Drift Watch series — weekly notes on configuration drift and CMMC, written by Lead CMMC assessors and first published on the Concura.AI LinkedIn page. Free readiness check, written by Lead Assessors: https://concura.ai/assessment-readiness/