archTIS, announced a new NC Protect watermarking feature to support CUI Designator labelling to assist US Defense and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) with meeting the requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) document handling and tagging. The feature will be globally available during the July 2022 timeframe, expanding the market opportunity in Defense and DIB. CUI is defined as government-created or owned information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls consistent with applicable laws, regulations and government wide policies including CMMC, DFARS, NIST and ITAR (https://www.dodcui.mil/).

The new CUI Designator Label capability supports NC Protect's existing ability to automate the identification and classification of CUI material stored and collaborated on across Microsoft 365 applications and SharePoint on-premises. The new CUI Designator Labeling capability automatically embeds required information including Owner Name, Controlled By, Category, Distribution/Limited Dissemination Control and POC into the document as a watermark. Key features of NC Protect's enhanced CUI watermarking capability include the ability to: Dynamically apply a CUI Designator Label to data at rest using a watermark.

Manually build and apply the CUI Designator Label to data at rest using watermark. This can be previewed before it is applied. Dynamically apply a CUI Designator Label as the file is being viewed.

When any watermarked document is opened in Microsoft Office or the NC Protect Secure Reader, the CUI Designator Label is embedded in the file. Documents can include multiple watermarks in addition to the CUI Designator Label as required to prevent and track the source of data leaks. NC Protect provides a full range of capabilities to identify and protect CUI and other sensitive data, allowing users to automatically classify and apply a CUI Designator Label to documents.

Depending on the CUI level, user's geographic location and security privileges, NC Protect can apply dynamic protection to prevent visibility of the document to unauthorized users, prevent emailing, and/or display the document within NC Protect's.