Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Compliance
Ensuring the Integrity, Confidentially and Availability
Of Critical Federal Data
The 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was enacted to streamline—while at the same time strengthening—the requirements of its predecessor, the Government Information Security Reform Act (GISRA). FISMA compliance is a matter of national security, and therefore is scrutinized at the highest level of government. Yet FISMA compliance presents significant challenges for federal agencies, and for any organization that deals with federal information.
FISMA requires federal agencies to improve the security of IT systems, applications, and databases. By presenting a baseline of requirements for government agencies, FISMA calls for risk and vulnerability measurement through information security best practices. This way, agencies can ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of federal information systems. Eight steps for successful FISMA compliance include:
- Risk assessment
- Incident response
- Intrusion detection systems and tools
- Malicious code prevention
- Individual identification and authentication
- Change activity monitoring
- Logging and audit controls
- Supervision and review
Security Compliance Management for FISMA
A comprehensive and specific approach to meeting FISMA compliance and correcting information security program weaknesses can begin by leveraging a security compliance management solution—one that enables proactive risk assessment and management, real-time monitoring and alerting, and on-demand trend reporting. netForensics security compliance management solutions provide you an efficient, comprehensive strategy for examining and ensuring the adequacy and effectiveness of information security policies, procedures, and practices. By leveraging these security best practices, FISMA compliance will follow.
Whether you’re beginning to explore the importance of collecting and analyzing log data, enhancing your security practices to protect your applications and databases from insider threats, or need real-time actionable security and FISMA compliance information throughout your enterprise, netForensics can help you meet all your security compliance management challenges.
nFX One: Helping You Maintain FISMA Compliance While Securing Your Enterprise
netForensics nFX One is a streamlined yet robust security
compliance management suite that empowers you to continuously manage risk while
leveraging recognized security best practices. Through data collection, log management,
real-time monitoring, threat identification, rapid response, and actionable reporting,
you can tackle information security and FISMA compliance at the same time withnFX
One solutions:
- nFX SIM One
for Security Information Management, empowers you to
transform huge volumes of complex security-related data
into understandable, actionable information. This streamlined,
easy-to-deploy SIM solution allows you to respond to
security events in real time—for active compliance management from the perimeter to the core.
- nFX Data One for
Database Threat Management, delivers a new level of insight
into user activities, so you know who’s touching your critical data and what they are doing with it—at all times across your enterprise. nFX Data One protects your agency from data breaches by monitoring databases and applications and alerting on any hostile and unauthorized activity.
- nFX Log One for
Log Management, enables easy-to-use log management for
collecting, documenting, and storing log data for FISMA
compliance audits. With broad access to your log data—plus the power to take action on it when necessary—you can effectively meet your compliance demands while enhancing your overall information security posture.
Learn more about achieving and maintaining FISMA compliance through proactive threat and risk management.
Download: Overcoming Persistent FISMA Weaknesses Through
Security Compliance Management
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