FutureFeed, a compliance platform for NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC, has announced a partnership with Teramis to integrate fully automated Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) discovery into its Cyber-GRC platform. The collaboration aims to address the critical challenge of identifying CUI across diverse file types, a process traditionally reliant on manual efforts and assumptions.
Under the agreement, Teramis' CUI discovery tool will be embedded directly into FutureFeed's platform, providing partners and contractors with a continuously monitored, evidence-based CUI boundary that assessors can review. The tool automates the detection of CUI in file types often missed by other solutions, including AutoCAD drawings, PDFs, images, and scanned documents, and alerts users to spillage outside the boundary before it becomes a reportable incident. Teramis claims up to 99.99% accuracy and is already trusted by defense contractors supporting more than $10 billion in defense programs.
Mark Berman, CEO of FutureFeed, emphasized the importance of moving beyond guesswork: "Every CMMC engagement begins with the same question - where is the CUI? For too long the answer has come from interviews, assumptions, and hope, which is not a foundation anyone can defend in an assessment. Teramis replaces guesswork with evidence, automatically. That's the certainty our partners and the contractors they serve deserve."
Brandon Sessions, President of Teramis, added: "The hardest part of protecting CUI is knowing where it lives. Manual scoping doesn't scale, and it doesn't hold up. Our tool finds CUI automatically, across the file types everyone else misses, and shows contractors exactly where their data is. Partnering with FutureFeed embeds CUI discovery directly into the Cyber-GRC platform - where it's reviewed by assessors and used by IT teams to continuously monitor for spillage."
This partnership arrives as defense contractors face increasing pressure to achieve and maintain CMMC compliance, a requirement for many Department of Defense contracts. By automating CUI discovery, the integration enables more efficient scoping and continuous monitoring, reducing the risk of non-compliance and reportable incidents. For advisory firms and managed service providers, the embedded tool offers a new service offering to differentiate their practices.
FutureFeed, based in Baltimore, MD, serves over 1,400 clients and more than 350 partners across the Defense Industrial Base. Teramis, also headquartered in Baltimore, provides automated CUI discovery and continuous monitoring to government agencies and defense contractors. More information is available at www.futurefeed.co and www.teramis.us.
