Is your RMF package detailed enough?
Question for you: are you providing enough detail in your RMF accreditation to actually assess proper RISK? That is the “R” in RMF. Not just get an approval stamp but actually assess risk?
Are you looking at patches, compliance, settings, mitigations, open POAM items and all network devices to see what is going on? And making sure you cover all your workstations, devices, cloud, and network? And those you inherit from as well?!?
If you are doing this manually, chances are you do not have enough time to do that! You do sections, you sample “similar machines”, you ask questions, and you take people’s word for it. Or you guess and do your best.
“What other option do I have? What else can I do without spending $100’s of thousands of dollars and paying $250/hr consultants to help?”
Glad you asked!
What is Missing? What is the better way? THIS!
Automation is missing. Automating the scans and data you already have, and letting it tell you the story. And track it automatically over time.
- what compliance items are still open?
- what patches are still open?
- what items are POAM’d and what is their residual risk?
- what mitigations do we have in place to cover us?
- what checklists do we need? which ones need to be updated?
- what areas and controls are we missing data in?
- how are we tracking changes, trends, and burn down of issues?
- what questions do we need to answer that cannot be scanned to complete?
- what information does my assessor need?
- and how do we do this in the same way across all our teams and accreditation packages we have right now?
Automation is Key!
You will not have time to do proper due diligence on tracking risk for your RMF accreditations if doing it manually. You just won’t.
You must automate tasks that are able to be automated, and give your team the data to make smart decisions. Give them time to do proper cyber hygiene. Have a way for even new team members to jump in and help while learning RMF.
And then let them perform actual cyber security!
Chasing PDF files, excel spreadsheets, and learning how to do pivot tables will NOT secure your network. Compliance itself will not secure your network either. However, it has to be done.
Performing automation around your scans and data automatically to see the issues, risks, classify the data and make informed decisions helps you save massive amounts of time. And gets you structured and standardized.
This way, you can actually do the work to become more secure. And automate documentation along the way.
You can do this right now, today, with a solution built for that specific purpose like OpenRMF Professional. Our solution is built to solve this problem.
We have done DITSCAP, DIACAP, and RMF by hand since summer 2004 and stopped in 2018 when we decided to do something about this problem.
We built this with you and your team’s workload in mind. To get this going with minimal install, setup, and configuration.
We provide documentation, online help, even video on demand tutorials to get you up and running. Don’t believe us? Evaluate for yourself and see.
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