CUI enclave design for defense electronics manufacturers
Keep the data package in one place.
We design the CUI boundary for defense electronics manufacturers on Microsoft GCC High and Azure Virtual Desktop: where data packages and firmware live, how files are exchanged with the customer, and how programs reach the line. Design and documentation only. Capital Cyber, based in Leesburg, Virginia, provides CUI enclave design for defense electronics manufacturers and works on-site across Northern Virginia.
For electronics manufacturers building or reshaping their own CUI environment.
What lives inside the enclave?
The data package store, the CAD and CAM work, the controlled firmware images, the test procedures, and the mailbox and file exchange used with the customer. Purchasing, accounting and the general office can often stay outside it.
How do programs get from the enclave to the line?
This is the hard part. Placement and inspection machines need their programs, and testers need their test files. The design names the transfer path, whether a controlled share, a dedicated transfer station or approved removable media, and who is allowed to use it. A line machine that receives programs is documented, not assumed out of scope.
How does customer file exchange fit the design?
Data packages come in and test data goes out. The design picks one approved method for each customer, encrypted in transit, landing inside the enclave rather than in someone's desktop Downloads folder.
What about firmware loading?
If firmware images are controlled, the programming bench either works from the enclave or is itself in scope. The design shows which, and how images are removed from the bench when a job closes.
What do you get at the end?
A written boundary, an access design, and the scoping documentation that goes with them. We do not hold your CUI and we do not operate the environment under this engagement.
Which requirements does this touch?
NIST SP 800-171SC.L2-3.13.8
Data in Transit
Data packages in and test results out are encrypted in transit. Evidence is the approved transfer method per customer and its configuration.
SC.L2-3.13.6
Network Communication by Exception
The line network only talks to the enclave on the ports the transfer path needs. Evidence is deny-by-default firewall rules with documented exceptions.
AC.L2-3.1.3
Control CUI Flow
Programs and firmware leave the enclave only by the approved path. Evidence is the CUI flow diagram and settings that block other routes.
MP.L2-3.8.6
Portable Storage Encryption
If a USB device carries controlled programs outside a controlled area, it is encrypted. Evidence is the device model, its encryption setting and the procedure.
SC.L2-3.13.11
CUI Encryption
FIPS-validated cryptography protects CUI in the enclave. Evidence is the configuration and validation records for the products used.
What do you receive?
SCOPED PER CLIENTA written boundary
Which systems handle data packages, firmware and test data, and which stay out of scope and why.
An access design
Who reaches CUI, from where, and how that access is evidenced.
Scoping documentation
The CUI flow diagram and network boundary diagram, written against your line.
A start from where CUI enters
Which contracts bring data packages in, which people handle them, and which systems they touch today.
What does this service not include?
This is design and documentation only. We do not hold your CUI, we do not operate the environment under this engagement, and we are not an Authorized C3PAO.
The full service, for any industry: CUI enclave design. Where most engagements start: the CMMC Level 2 gap assessment.
Questions we hear
Will you host our data packages?
No. This is design and documentation only. We do not hold your CUI and we do not operate the environment under this engagement.
Can our line PCs be thin clients to Azure Virtual Desktop?
Office and engineering desktops that only send keyboard, video and mouse can be out of scope. Line machines that must receive programs locally are documented and managed instead.
How do test results get back to the customer?
By one approved, encrypted method per customer, sent from inside the enclave. The design names it.
Where does enclave design start?
With where CUI enters your business today: which contracts bring data packages in, who handles them, and which systems they touch.
More for defense electronics manufacturers
CUI enclave design in other industries
Book a 30-minute call.
BOOK A CALLScoped per client, so the first step is a conversation. Pick a time.
What happens in 30 minutes
- We learn about your business and the defense contracts you hold or are bidding on.
- We walk you through a gap assessment, the first step toward CMMC, and what it covers.
- If you qualify, we help you apply to Cyber Grants Alliance for an in-kind grant, which provides the gap assessment itself. No slides.
Talk to us about it.
This is scoped per client, not priced on a page. Tell us what you have and we will tell you what it takes.
Defense supplier under 75 people? Start with the grant.
Cyber Grants Alliance, a nonprofit, awards in-kind cybersecurity grants. It provides the work itself, including CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 gap assessments. There is no cost to you, and you are under no obligation to buy anything afterward, from us or from anyone.