Employ the principle of least privilege, including for specific security functions and privileged accounts. What is the principle of least privilege? It is when you give a person’s account the bare minimum of permissions and capabilities they need to do their job. You basically lock their account down to the point that they can’t access…
Your POA&M is your Plan of Action and Milestone document. Here are some key strategies and best practices that you need to observe when you are filling out your POA&M document. Through the course of your audit and your security analysis or your compliance audit, information system audit or any other IT-based audits you are…
Downtime is one of the biggest losses a company can take. To large corporations, network downtime could mean millions of dollars lost. While smaller companies don’t lose as much money, it still makes a significant impact on their bottom line. One of the best ways to avoid this problem is to work with a managed…
In order to be compliant with NIST 800 and several other organizations, like DFARS, you are going to be asked for your System Security Plan. The long and short of it is you are going to need to identify all the systems that have access to the CUI and then fill out the System Security…
Any company with a website is technically available 24 hours a day. The problem with this is it’s sometimes difficult to assemble an in-house staff willing to be available for around-the-clock support. A white label managed security service provider is not only available to your customers as needed, but they can also monitor your client’s…
Separate the duties of individuals to reduce the risk of malevolent activity without collusion Malevolent Activity is when someone is trying to inflict harm on an entity like a person, government or company. Organizations must separate CUI handling and processing based tasks that employees work on in order to minimize the chance that they could…
Cybersecurity awareness has become a major priority for companies around the world. When the cloud was created several years ago, there were plenty of concerns about security, and rightfully so. However, now the cloud has evolved into one of the most secure platforms organizations can use. You should never take security for granted, though, and…
3.1.3 Control the flow of CUI in accordance with approved authorizations CUI is Controlled Unclassified Information. This is the data that needs to be protected and you need to protect how it arrives, who has access to it, who might have access to where it is stored, how it is stored, etc. You need to…
As a small business owner, being smart about cutting costs is essential for long-term success. One of the biggest expenses for any organization is IT security. Whether it’s the programs and software or paying the salaries of IT staff members, the cost of protecting your networks and servers is expensive. Hiring a managed security service…
Limit information system access to the types of transactions and functions that authorized users are permitted to execute. Once you have a domain and you have identified who will have access to the sensitive data, you will want to restrict access to those systems from any ordinary user or member of your network from accessing…
