When CUI is an email attachment, the whole inbox is in scope.
Engineering consultancies, systems integrators, and advisory firms touching DoD work face the same 800-171 obligations as manufacturers — often with less infrastructure to point at.
The specific reasons your contracts changed.
Email-first workflows are the trap
Receiving a CUI document by email puts that mailbox — and any device that synced it — in scope.
Knowledge workers travel
Laptops at customer sites, hotel Wi-Fi, mobile MDM gaps — a wider attack surface than most firms realize.
Partner data flows are messy
Subcontractors, expert witnesses, joint ventures — CMMC requires you to track CUI flow across organizational boundaries.
No dedicated security team
Most professional services firms don't have a CISO. Cincra's AI policy library and POA&M assignments are designed for shared ownership.
Cincra is the most useful tool for professional services firms because it produces the artifacts without requiring you to first build the security organization that would otherwise produce them.