CMMC Compliance with Gmail

by Orlee Berlove on May 29, 2020

PreVeil Enables CMMC Level 3 Compliance with Gmail

The Department of Defense’s new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework will start rolling out this year to over 15,000 Primes and their subcontractors in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). From there, the process will pick up speed until all 300,000 organizations in the DIB will need to achieve their required CMMC level in order to continue to do work for the DoD.

Going forward, DoD will require CMMC levels in its RFPs and—notably—CMMC certification will serve as the basis of “go/no go” decisions for awarding defense contracts. If your company does work for the DoD that involves handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), you will need to achieve CMMC Level 3 or above. Specifically, CMMC Level 3 requires that organizations demonstrate “…a basic ability to protect and sustain an organization’s assets and CUI.”

It is clear that Gmail is not CMMC compliant. But that doesn’t mean your company has to go through a time consuming or costly disruption to switch from Gmail to another email service. Instead, there’s a more secure, easier, and less expensive path to CMMC compliance: PreVeil Email and Drive.

PreVeil provides end-to-end encryption for email and file sharing at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. PreVeil need be deployed only to your employees who handle CUI, whereas alternatives require deployment across an entire organization. And as explained below, PreVeil makes configuration and deployment simple and inexpensive, with no need to rip and replace your existing infrastructure. Your employees don’t even need to change their Gmail address.

PreVeil’s straightforward solutions also help you avoid expensive CMMC consultant engagements, which are par for the course for alternatives to CMMC compliance.

In short, you can continue to use Gmail and comply with CMMC requirements by leveraging technological advances that enable end-to-end encryption and other CMMC-mandated security controls.

PreVeil’s security architecture is grounded in world-class end-to-end encryption. With PreVeil, email, files and data are never decrypted on any server anywhere. If attackers breach a server, all they will get is useless gibberish.

PreVeil Email, as demonstrated in the video below, lets your employees send and receive encrypted emails containing CUI using their existing Gmail address, all while maintaining CMMC Level 3 compliance. It integrates seamlessly with Gmail, and works on browsers and mobile devices. The installation process automatically creates a new set of mailboxes for your encrypted messages. Messages in these new mailboxes are encrypted and stored on PreVeil’s servers. There are no changes to the mailboxes already in your mail program and no impact on the servers that store your regular, unsecured messages.

PreVeil Email: Video demonstration

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PreVeil Drive, as demonstrated in the video below, enables end-to-end encrypted file sharing and storage of CUI that is CMMC Level 3 compliant. Users can access files stored on PreVeil Drive from any of their devices, or share files with other users who have the appropriate access permissions through PreVeil’s Trusted Communities. Unlike Google Drive which always has access to your data, only you and the people with whom you’ve explicitly shared files can decrypt them. PreVeil Drive is easy to use and automatically integrates with Windows File Explorer and Mac Finder and has no impact on your existing file servers. It’s available for Windows, Mac and, with PreVeil’s mobile app, for iPads and smartphones as well.

PreVeil Drive: Video demonstration

All DoD contractors, regardless of size, will soon need to comply with CMMC requirements. To help you do so, PreVeil leverages a fundamentally better security paradigm. But better security isn’t enough. If security is difficult to use, it won’t be used. To be effective, security must be as frictionless as possible. PreVeil was created with this principle in mind so that all your security objectives, including CMMC compliance, will be met.

PreVeil has released a CMMC white paper that presents detailed information on what your company needs to do to comply with CMMC and, likewise, work with the DoD. Our aim is to make that process as seamless and affordable as possible while providing unparalleled security.

To learn more about PreVeil and how your company can get started with CMMC compliance, contact us.