Are you struggling to meet Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance regulations? Need to make improvements to enhance your compliance? Finding it hard to document compliance in a readily usable way? August Schell is here to help. We have engineers experienced with both RMF and it’s predecessor DIACAP who know the requirements and how to implement a solution for you.
The Background:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) alongside its partnering agencies released the Risk Management Framework (RMF) to serve as the common baseline for all federal agencies and their partners to use for identifying, remediating, and reporting Risk for all mission critical information systems. Want to dive in a little deeper? Read our write up on it.
What now?
RMF compliance is broken down into a six-step lifecycle process for information systems.
- Step 1: Categorization of Information Systems
- Step 2: Selection of Security Controls
- Step 3: Implementation of Security Controls
- Step 4: Assessment of Security Controls
- Step 5: Authorization of Information Systems
- Step 6: Monitoring of Security Controls (Continuous Monitoring and Reporting)
Essential Characteristics of RMF
- Near real-time risk management and continuous monitoring
- Use automation to allow senior leaders to make risk-based decisions
- Integrate information security into the system development life cycle
- Emphasize standardized security controls
- Link risk management processes at the information system level and organization level
- Establish responsibility and accountability for security controls
How We Help:
August Schell has a team of security professionals and implementation engineers who can walk you through all six steps for RMF.
- Implementation
- Develop transition plans
- Identifying risk for your IT systems
- Data collection and correlating different data sources
- Set up Visualizations to Consume Data
- Create dashboards for real-time continuous monitoring to satisfy requirements
We are seeing our customers hit a wall when trying to become RMF compliant, we are here to help you through the entire process. Want to talk to an engineer to learn more? Contact us today.