Evolving Continuous Authorization Capabilities, Cybersecurity Calendar, and RMF Security Control Baseline Tool You can successfully and effectively meet your FY2015 FISMA requirements by understanding the FISMA Trends, Rising Needs and Solutions and creating your own management tools. These are what this course is about. Individuals who took our FISMA courses in the past three years, will find this course evolved with the new capabilities and...

Over the past year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving and simplifying the future security requirements for government information technology (IT). They have identified new standards, strategies, and solutions that have reduced the FISMA requirements on the government organizations by over 50 percent and the risk to systems by much more. Thes...

Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act currently in Congress and Executive Order 13571 already in effect are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and or...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP): I...

Are you struggling to meet the federal government’s Oct. 1 deadline to comply with IPv6 implementation guidelines? Digital Government Institute’s 6th Annual Government IPv6 Conference on June 6 will help you get a handle on what to do as the deadline approaches, explore how others are making the transition, and learn what to do to expand your website into the world of the next generation of communication. The event coincides with W...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issue that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services. On...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, with the depletion of the remaining IPv4 address spaces in under a year; the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issues that must be met to ensure continued us...

OMB and NIST over the past year issued in Special Publication (SP) 800-37 the new FISMA "Authorization" process (previously call (Certification and Accreditation) to be used by all Federal organizations, including the DoD and Intelligence communities, to gain approval to operate. Additionally, NIST is finalizing SP 800-39 on the Risk Management Framework (RMF), which is the basis for this new "Authorization" process. This moved us from a 4-pha...