Teramis: Advanced CUI Identification and Remediation Software

The Manual Review Impossibility

Defense contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) face an impossible mathematical reality. Consider a recent client with 21 million files across their enterprise environment. Even if a human reviewer could examine each file in just 20 seconds, the task would require 11,667 hours of continuous work—equivalent to 5.6 years of full-time effort for a single comprehensive review.

This mathematical impossibility creates a critical compliance gap. Defense contractors have made attestations that they handle CUI appropriately and ensure no CUI exists outside approved assessed environments. Yet manual verification at enterprise scale is simply not feasible, leaving organizations exposed to compliance violations and potential contract risks.

The stakes are clear: Defense contractors must have reliable, automated methods to identify and manage CUI across their entire digital infrastructure. Manual processes cannot meet the precision and scale requirements of modern defense contracting environments. 

CUI Scanning:  A Critical Need with a False Positive Problem

Scanning for CUI seems like the obvious fix to the manual review problem, but traditional eDiscovery and DLP tools often fall short. CUI lacks consistent, well-defined patterns—unlike data types such as Social Security or credit card numbers—because each federal agency sets its own marking guidance. This makes accurate identification difficult.

As a result, false positives are common, with rates ranging from 86% to 99% of flagged items. In one case, a single server scan returned thousands of potential CUI files, but fewer than 10 were valid—requiring over 100 hours of manual review. These inefficiencies drive up compliance costs and highlight the limitations of using conventional tools for CUI detection.

Three Critical Applications for Defense Contractors

1. CMMC Scoping, Compliance and Assessment Preparation

Accurate CUI identification is fundamental to proper CMMC scoping. Over-scoping drives up assessment costs, while under-scoping creates compliance findings. Teramis answers the critical questions of:

a. How much CUI do I actually have?

b. Where is it located?

c. Who interacts with it?

Properly scoped environments dramatically reduce costs and user impact.

2. Ongoing CUI Spillage Prevention

There is always a risk of CUI winding up outside of authorized environments through normal business operations such as a contractor emailing CUI to the wrong email address. Teramis provides continuous monitoring, identifying when CUI appears in unauthorized locations and enabling remediation before compliance violations occur.

3. Post-Breach Impact Assessment

Following cybersecurity incidents, organizations have strict DoD notification requirements. Data theft is near-ubiquitous in modern cyberattacks. Teramis provides rapid forensic scanning of affected systems, delivering precise identification of compromised CUI within hours for accurate incident reporting.

The Teramis Solution: up to 99.99% Accuracy at Enterprise Scale

Teramis transforms the impossible into the achievable, delivering up to 99.99% accuracy in automated CUI identification across millions of files. Where manual review would take years, Teramis provides comprehensive enterprise-wide CUI discovery in hours.

Core advantages: Advanced algorithms process diverse file types at scale, surgical precision eliminates the high false positive rates of traditional tools, and comprehensive audit trails enable compliance documentation.

Why Teramis Delivers Superior ROI

Purpose-Built for Defense: Unlike general DLP tools, Teramis is engineered specifically for CUI identification and CMMC compliance in defense contracting environments.

Mathematical Precision at Scale: Utilizing ANSI and MIL Standards for Acceptable Quality Levels, Teramis is engineered and tested to reduce false positives.

Immediate Impact: Organizations have achieved 60-80% reduction in CMMC costs, elimination of manual review expenses, and enhanced security posture within the first assessment cycle.

Proven Results

Defense contractors using Teramis have achieved enterprise-scale CUI discovery, completing in hours what manual processes could not accomplish in years. Our industry leading accuracy eliminates false positive costs, reduces CMMC scope, and provides rapid breach response capabilities.

Transform Your CUI Management Today

Don't let the mathematical impossibility of manual CUI review expose your organization to compliance risks and inflated assessment costs. Teramis makes comprehensive, accurate CUI management achievable at enterprise scale.

Schedule your personalized demonstration to see how Teramis transforms CUI identification from an

impossible manual task into a precise, automated capability.