By Marilyn Fritz, CISSP Cybersecurity is notoriously challenging, with every new day bringing more media stories about losses from endless breaches. Beleaguered cybersecurity professionals are left coping with the onslaught and, more often than not, pleading for resources. Leaders in both private and public sectors all around the globe are…
By Kathryn Daily, CISSP, CAP, RDRP Back in September 2018, NIST announced their plans to develop a data privacy framework based off of their cybersecurity framework that has been extremely successful in both government and the private sector. NIST has worked with industry through webinars and workshops and incorporated both public…
Dear Dr. RMF, First of all, just stumbled across this blog few days ago….awesome! There is piles of documentation but not enough community sourced help for the RMF process. I tried starting an RMF sub-reddit but it never took off! I have so many questions! But one in particular that…
Dear Dr. RMF, Government IT Security staff work with systems owners to make sure that all systems in the agency have implemented the proper Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls. Organizations have deployed technologies like eMASS, XACTA, and RSA to manage the workflow and documentation for the RMF for their systems….
By P. Devon Schall, PhD, CISSP, RDRP Over the past 12 months, I have attended a handful of DoD cybersecurity conferences with the goal of convincing the DoD community that RMF training is a key solution in combatting the perceived RMF crisis. These conferences include the Air Force Information Technology…
By Lon J. Berman CISSP, RDRP CNSSI 4009 defines Security Control Inheritance as “a situation in which an information system or application receives protection from security controls (or portions of security controls) that are developed, implemented, and assessed, authorized, and monitored by entities other than those responsible for the system…
By Lon J. Berman, CISSP, RDRP All of us who have spent time working with RMF have come to understand just what a time-consuming and resource-intensive process it can be. As bad as that may be, it is made even worse when the same application or system ends up going…
A Quantitative Study on the Receipt of Formalized RMF Training and Perceptions of RMF Effectiveness, Sustainability, and Commitment in RMF Practitioners. By P. Devon Schall, Ph.D., CISSP, RDRP Over the past year, I have conducted research on the relationship between the receipt of formalized RMF training and perceptions…
By Kathryn Daily, CISSP, CAP, RDRP NIST has officially released NIST 800-37 Rev 2 and dubbed it as “RMF 2.0.” The framework has been updated to include both cybersecurity and privacy to be key for an authorization decision. “RMF 2.0 gives federal agencies a very powerful tool to manage both…
By Alice Steger, Director of Sales & Marketing Training Overview Security Controls Assessment Workshop provides a current and well-developed approach to evaluation and testing of security controls to prove they are functioning correctly in today’s IT systems. This course shows you how to evaluate, examine, and test installed security controls…
