CUI Fundamentals

Course Description

The United States Government created the Controlled Unclassified Information (“CUI“) program to establish a consistent mechanism for identifying and safeguarding sensitive but unclassified information.  One of the CUI program’s goals is to ensure that everyone, including government contractors and state and local governments, that handles CUI follows the same rules.

The CUI Fundamentals course provides an overview of the government-wide CUI program and its requirements, with an emphasis on its impact on those outside the federal government.  Topics covered in the course include:

• History and purpose of the CUI program
• Designating, Identifying, and Marking CUI
• Safeguarding CUI
• When derivative works rise to the level of CUI (and when they don’t)
• Disposing of CUI
• Disseminating CUI
• Supply chain issues with CUI
• How to interact with federal agencies and prime contractors when CUI is involved