DoD’s CUI Compliance Tree Is Set to Bear Fruit in 2025... Just In Time to be Empowered by Zscaler Zero Trust Solutions

CMMC + Modernized Defense-in-Depth = Zscaler

Zscaler enables defense, healthcare, and education institutions on their journey towards CMMC compliance. Our solutions are designed to help you meet the stringent requirements outlined in the CMMC framework, with key solutions including:

• Remote access controls: The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange enforces a strict identity and policy-based access model, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can access CUI. This aligns with the CMMC's emphasis on rigorous access controls.
• Data protection: Zscaler's solutions provide robust data protection mechanisms, including encryption, data loss prevention, and secure web gateways. These tools are essential for safeguarding CUI against unauthorized access and data breaches.
• Architectural flexibility: Zscaler's approach to vendor neutrality allows the OSA to install Zscaler on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and Chromebook code bases. This agnostic and neutral approach coupled with Zscaler's 140+ API integrations empower organizations to establish, fortify, and enhance their CMMC green and brownfields.
• Continuous monitoring and incident response: Proactive threat detection and response are critical components of the CMMC framework. Zscaler's advanced analytics and continuous monitoring capabilities enable organizations to detect and respond to threats in real-time, ensuring compliance with CMMC's stringent monitoring requirements. Furthermore, Zscaler's FedRAMP High and Moderate platforms comply with DFARS cybersecurity reporting standards.
• Simplified compliance management: Zscaler's centralized management console offers visibility and control over the entire security posture, simplifying the process of maintaining and demonstrating compliance with CMMC standards.
• FedRAMP and IL5 enabled infrastructures: As a FedRAMP High and Moderate platform, Zscaler operates above DoD's FedRAMP equivalency memo , including DoD's Impact Level 5 (IL5) requirements assessed to support the data protection and confidentiality at the highest levels of our federal government.

Zscaler's cloud-based zero trust, data protection, threat intelligence, and policy management solutions allow companies large and small to inherit and implement CMMC's various protection levels. For more details, download our CMMC white paper , which outlines how Zscaler's innovative security solutions align with CMMC requirements. Leveraging Zscaler provides a clear path to achieving technical and administrative controls, principles, and compliance requirements for both CMMC and zero trust.

By adopting zero trust, you can enhance your security posture and ensure that CUI is protected against evolving cyberthreats by not automatically trusting anything inside or outside your perimeter and must verify anything and everything trying to connect to their systems before granting access.

CMMC, like zero trust, is no longer a "theory" or something drafted by a good idea fairy-it is an impactful framework that defense, healthcare, and education institutions use to accomplish its cybersecurity and compliance requirements. For instance, OSAs use Zscaler to accomplish CMMC's legal, contractual, and cybersecurity requirements.

Of the many, Zscaler is protecting almost 250 DIB companies including 6 of the top 10 Aerospace and Defense government contractors and manufacturers, protecting close to 640,000 users collectively. Moreover, the University of South Carolina and Texas A&M University have used Zscaler to protect research data enclaves, campus Wi-Fi, and support remote users while fortifying and enhancing their CMMC brownfields and establishing new CMMC enclaves, respectively.