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Desired state is a real document

Drift Watch · Week 8 of 12 · September 22, 2026 · by Concura's Lead CMMC assessors

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You can't detect drift from a baseline nobody wrote down.

Desired state isn't "however it was configured on assessment day." It's a documented, versioned statement of intended configuration: the settings, the values, the parameters — and which control each one serves.

If your baseline lives in someone's memory, every change is invisible. And every assessment is archaeology.

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/