NIST SP 800-171 Requirement 3.2:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a guide to assist businesses with adherence to Defense Fed...
NIST SP 800-171 Requirement 3.1 Access Contro...
Businesses that work with the Department of Defense (DoD) as contractors or vendors need to meet specific cybersecurity regulation...
DFARS Cybersecurity Audits: What to Expect
It’s getting real – the government is moving from self-reported compliance to external audits of a company’s cybersecurity p...
New DoD Guidance for Evaluating Compliance
Happy Monday, Cyber World! The Department of Defense has just made public their final two guidance documents on assessing complian...
What Should NIST Compliance Actually Cost?
Cyber compliance is now, quite simply, a cost of doing business in the defense sector. And it’s the thousands of small businesse...
What We Learned: Our Compliance Story
Guest post by Jay Lustig As the CEO of Scientific Solutions, Inc. (SSI), a small, highly specialized engineering firm in the defen...
GDPR and NIST Cybersecurity Compliance
By now, most companies know about GDPR and its directives on handling personal data -- from email addresses to personnel data. But...
Identifying and Safeguarding CUI
How to Identify Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) & Where It Lives in Your Organization If you’ve heard of NIST SP 8...
NIST 800-171 Risk Assessments: Straight Talk
What is a risk assessment, in the context of NIST cybersecurity compliance? What does it entail? When should we conduct the risk a...
NIST Compliance: Not Just for Primes
The National Defense Industrial Association: San Diego Chapter, recently released a list of significant news relating to cybersecu...
NIST Security Requirements: Cybersecurity Tra...
For all companies, cybersecurity training is an essential part of creating a team that is ready to protect against cyber attacks. ...
NIST Security Requirements: Physical Security
Physical security today is much different than it was years ago due to the fact that technological devices have become much smalle...
