What is decontrol of CUI?

• A. To add more safeguards.
• B. To reclassify as top secret.
• C. The process to remove CUI safeguards when information no longer requires protection or restricted dissemination.
• D. To transfer to another owner.

Answer: (C)

Decontrol of CUI means removing the protective controls that apply to Controlled Unclassified Information when the information no longer requires special protection or restricted dissemination. It’s the formal process of lifting CUI safeguards so the information can be treated with standard, less restrictive handling.

This is why it’s the right answer: decontrol is about ending the special protections, not increasing them, not upgrading the designation to top secret, and not transferring ownership. Adding safeguards would be the opposite of decontrol, reclassifying to top secret would elevate the protection, and transferring ownership is about who handles the information, not how it’s protected.