NIST 800-53
In order to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical information, Federal agencies must have the proper controls in place to proactively mitigate risk. As part of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), agencies must now comply with a new framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that outlines the security protections that should be put in place in Federal information systems: NIST 800-53.
How do agencies cost-effectively manage and report on the overwhelming volume of compliance requirements, protect information assets from emerging threats, and maintain corporate governance? The key is to implement an infrastructure that easily transitions from individual regulatory initiatives to multi-initiative, integrated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Agencies need to be able to view, analyze, and support all GRC activities via a single-source solution in order to significantly reduce the costs associated with FISMA compliance, develop GRC best practices, and maintain the confidence that information assets are thoroughly secured.
The NeoGRC NIST 800-53 Framework
Neohapsis provides Federal agencies with a comprehensive GRC solution in which the NIST 800-53 framework can be easily incorporated. With NeoGRC, agencies can more easily and efficiently meet emerging FISMA compliance requirements and ensure that all compliance activities support ongoing GRC initiatives. Federal agencies benefit from Neohapsis’ proven FISMA compliance methodologies, which have allowed customers to experience successful FISMA audit results, achieve complete compliance, and leverage up-to-date GRC data to strategically reallocate resources.
The NeoGRC NIST 800-53 framework provides significant flexibility in the planning, design, documentation, and assurance of baseline security control strategies driven by an organizations’ overall risk posture. Specifically, NeoGRC delivers:
- Predefined categorization of security controls and links between controls and control enhancements
- Predefined FIPS 199 security risk categorization and baseline controls framework
- Extensive KPI mapping, monitoring, and controls performance metrics to improve controls assurance confidence
- Flexible workflows around processes, controls testing and documentation, incident investigations, remediation activities, and audit activity
- Incident and loss capture and analysis, linked to risk and control frameworks
- Automated alerts for rapid risk notification, including quantitative and qualitative risk scoring
- Comprehensive audit trails with detailed visibility into system changes, as well as trending analysis
