Achieving CMMC Compliance without Impacting Users

SecureCircle
2 min readJan 6, 2021
SecureCircle helps achieve CMMC with direct mapping to over 40 controls and practices

Many new customers have approached SecureCircle asking how SecureCircle helps organizations meet the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). CMMC is the standard for cybersecurity implementation across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). CMMC is designed to assure the government and, more specifically, the Department of Defense that a DIB company can adequately secure Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and account for data flow down to subcontractors in a multi-tier supply chain.

SecureCircle helps organizations meet over 40 controls and practices across eight domains needed to obtain Level 3 certification. Besides providing direct support of requirements to pass a CMMC audit, SecureCircle meets CMMC requirements without impacting users.

CTA Formatting: Download the SecureCircle CMMC Compliance Guide with requirements and SecureCircle mapping.

Applying our Zero Trust DLP for Endpoints (recognized by Forrester) solution to the CMMC/CUI use case, security is transparent and frictionless to end-users and applications. This transparent approach means that user behavior does not need to change, and applications do not need to integrate in any way to take advantage of the control, and security SecureCircle delivers.

Many security solutions require the users to become part of the security process, including asking users to decide what data is sensitive and who should have access. These solutions decrease productivity, introduce human error to security, and allow for malicious user attacks. SecureCircle automates decisions and removes users from the security process. At no point do users need to make decisions on what data is essential or sensitive. SecureCircle protects information by default.

Another challenge for organizations is security solutions can’t support any file format or application. SecureCircle supports all file formats and applications, including custom internal applications and file types, without any changes to the application or integration with SecureCircle.

Removing users from the security process and supporting any file type and application without modification can reduce the time to deploy, train, and implement SecureCircle. Organizations can deploy SecureCircle in days.

SecureCircle monitors all interactions with secure data. The activity data provides CMMC auditors with evidence security controls are in place.

SecureCircle’s persistent data security and frictionless impact on users and applications allow organizations to apply SecureCircle to broad data segments rather than only securing the most critical data. Additionally, SecureCircle enables granular control and permissions for users, admins, groups, devices, applications, and networks. The combination of broad features and granular controls allow organizations to configure SecureCircle to meet security and compliance requirements.

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SecureCircle

SecureCircle delivers a SaaS-based cybersecurity service that extends Zero Trust security to data on the endpoint