CMMC Compliance CUI Scoping Partnership Announcements

Teramis Delivers Precise CUI Discovery to Strengthen Cape Endeavors’ Managed Secure Enclave Solutions

Teramis

July 13, 2026

Why Accurate CUI Discovery Matters for Secure Enclaves

At Teramis, our mission centers on solving one of the most persistent obstacles in CMMC compliance: the inability of organizations to accurately locate, validate, and continuously monitor Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) across their environments. Through our strategic partnership with Cape Endeavors, a leading provider of managed CMMC secure enclaves, we are helping transform how defense contractors prepare for and maintain compliance with NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC Level 2 requirements.

Cape Endeavors delivers a concierge-style approach to CMMC compliance by designing, building, and operating secure enclaves within clients’ existing Microsoft 365 tenants and infrastructure. This model enables contractors to maintain normal business operations while meeting defense-grade security standards. However, even the most robust enclave architecture depends on precise knowledge of where CUI resides. Without it, scoping becomes speculative, spillage risks escalate, and assessments frequently fail on fundamental visibility gaps.

How Teramis Supports Cape Endeavors

Cape Endeavors delivers a concierge-style approach to CMMC compliance by designing, building, and operating secure enclaves within clients’ existing Microsoft 365 tenants and infrastructure. This model enables contractors to maintain normal business operations while supporting defense-grade security requirements. However, even the most robust enclave architecture depends on precise knowledge of where CUI resides. Without that visibility, scoping becomes speculative, spillage risks increase, and assessments can encounter fundamental boundary and visibility gaps.

Teramis directly addresses this challenge by integrating purpose-built CUI discovery and validation software into Cape Endeavors’ service delivery. The Teramis platform scans millions of files across diverse formats, including complex technical drawings, scanned documents, images, archives, PDFs, and other supported data types, with up to 99.95% accuracy. It identifies potential CUI with precision, helps minimize the false positives associated with generalized tools, and provides detailed findings and reporting to support compliance documentation.

Once CUI is located and validated, Cape Endeavors can help the customer move approved information into a dedicated, monitored enclave environment. Ongoing Teramis scanning then helps identify potential CUI that appears outside approved boundaries without disrupting normal customer workflows.

Business Value for Cape Endeavors and Its Clients

The value delivered is both immediate and sustained. Clients gain clearer CUI visibility that helps resolve scoping questions and reduce the risk of unidentified or insufficiently protected information. Greater accuracy can accelerate enclave deployment, shorten the path to assessment readiness, and lower compliance costs by reducing rework and unnecessary scope expansion. For Cape Endeavors, the partnership supports more standardized CUI discovery and handling processes, enabling repeatable, high-confidence outcomes across its client base.

This integration differentiates Cape Endeavors in a competitive market. While many advisory and managed-service providers rely on manual reviews or generalized data-loss-prevention tools that may struggle with defense-specific file types, Cape Endeavors offers a technology-supported approach built around precise CUI discovery. By incorporating Teramis into its service delivery, Cape Endeavors can provide both managed secure enclave capabilities and the underlying CUI intelligence required to support long-term compliance planning.

This combined approach can help Cape Endeavors strengthen customer relationships, improve sales conversations, and demonstrate a clear advantage when defense contractors evaluate managed CMMC service providers.

Supporting CMMC Readiness and Continuous Monitoring

The collaboration also provides practical value for defense contractors. Organizations can pursue CMMC readiness with greater confidence, clearer scope, and reduced exposure to unexpected CUI-related findings. Recurring monitoring helps detect potential future spillage, while detailed discovery and validation reports support internal reviews, compliance documentation, and third-party assessment preparation.

The Teramis and Cape Endeavors partnership demonstrates how specialized CUI discovery technology can strengthen managed CMMC enclave delivery for the Defense Industrial Base. Teramis remains committed to supporting Cape Endeavors and its clients through continued innovation in CUI discovery, validation, reporting, and continuous monitoring.

Defense contractors seeking a more informed path toward CMMC readiness can explore how the combined Teramis and Cape Endeavors solution supports secure enclave planning, CUI visibility, and ongoing boundary monitoring.