Are Your AI Proposal Tools Secure?

You’ve worked hard building your business. You’ve developed practices and experience that give you a competitive edge. You certainly don’t want your sensitive and proprietary data falling into the wrong hands, do you?

As a government contractor, you may additionally need to protect CUI and similar data.

Many AI tools aren’t secure. You don’t know where your data ends up and how it might be exploited. Running your data through an untrusted system puts it and you at risk. Entering seemingly innocent information into an uncertified AI platform could offer a skilled operative the final puzzle piece to develop damaging intelligence.

GovEagle takes security seriously. In this post I’ll break it down into two areas. First, I’ll discuss what you, as a government contractor dealing with CUI, need to consider when selecting AI tools so you don’t jeopardize your CMMC certification. Secondly, I’ll address how GovEagle keeps your proprietary information safe so it doesn’t benefit your competitors?

Safeguarding CUI

When it comes to CMMC, you can’t take any chances, but how do you determine if an AI tool won’t jeopardize your audit? This can be confusing as you’ll hear different claims: DoD IL 2, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, hosting in FedRAMP High data centers, and so on. Let’s cut through the noise.

Any AI provider you work with for CUI must meet the requirements for FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency. Here’s why:

1. The DoD recently released a Q&A that classifies any cloud service that modifies the basic cloud service as a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). More specifically, AI proposal tools, like GovEagle, are considered a Cloud Service Offering (CSO) as they manipulate and serve their offering on top of a CSP (AWS, Azure, etc.)
2. The CMMC requirement for a CSP or CSO is FedRAMP Moderate or FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency. FedRAMP Moderate includes all 323 controls within NIST SP 800-53.
3. FedRAMP Moderate requires agency sponsorship. If a company doesn’t sell directly to a government agency, as is the case with GovEagle, FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency is the standard to achieve, which GovEagle does.
4. Achieving FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency requires the following:

• 100% compliance with the latest FedRAMP Moderate security control baseline (i.e. no POA&Ms).
• Compliance assessed by a FedRAMP-recognized Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO).
• Presenting the Body of Evidence (BoE) to the contractor (i.e. member of the DIB).

GovEagle meets these requirements and is therefore suitable for CUI. Ensure any tools used for processing or storing CUI – whether a specialized proposal assistant or broader AI platform – meet the same standards. For a deeper dive on FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency click here.

Protecting Proprietary Data

The safeguards addressed above provide superior protection for your proprietary and sensitive data. Additionally, we silo tenants so other GovEagle users don’t have access to your data. You control what data GovEagle accesses. We don’t use your data to train models. We have a zero-retention policy with AI processing services; all running in US-based FedRAMP High authorized data centers.

“If my competitors are also using GovEagle, and we’re bidding on the same contract, won’t our proposals be the same?” This question comes up occasionally. Your content is derived from your files – past performance, proposal library, processes, best practices, etc. Our siloed approach ensures proposals are customized for you, with your content at the core, and restricted only to you. There’s no need to worry with GovEagle.  

If you’d like more information, or would like a GovEagle demo, please let us know.

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