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Lon Berman
In Dr. RMF

Dear Dr. RMF – Informed

“Just want to be informed” writes: As a consultant, I try very hard to keep up with all the RMF publications so I can best serve my clients. On the NIST website I found a mailing list you can subscribe to. I signed up and now I receive regular e-mails…
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Kathryn Daily
In Federal Government

FISMA 2022 Update

By Kathryn Daily, CISSP, CAP, RDRP On February 7, 2022, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. In its assessment of Russia and their Cyber capabilities, ODNI assessed that Russia will remain a top cyber threat as it…
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Lon Berman
In Dr. RMF

Dear Dr. RMF

“Identity Crisis” writes: I am a contractor working on development of a system that is jointly owned by a DoD agency and a federal civil agency (Dept. of Treasury). My company is expected to do most of the “heavy lifting” to develop the RMF package for this system and we…
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Lon Berman
In Dr. RMF

Dear Dr. RMF

“Overlay Layover” asks: I’m a little bit confused about how to find available security controls overlays. According to the RMF policy (DoD Instruction 8510.01) and the RMF Knowledge Service, approved overlays can be found on the CNSS.GOV website. Well, I keep looking there and all I see are the same…
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Lon Berman
In Dr. RMF

Dear Dr. RMF

“In Search of Perfection” writes: One of my customers was told by their Security Control Assessor (SCA) that they could not get Authorization To Operate (ATO) unless their POA&M had zero open items; in other words, they are expected to be 100% compliant with all the controls in their baseline.…
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