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Determining the scope of controls (e.g., assessment boundary) is different than determining control applicability. Do you know the difference? The Unified Scoping Guide (USG) is a free resource to make control scoping more efficient, regardless of the type of sensitive / regulated data environment. You can download the latest version of the USG for free from: https://lnkd.in/gUy_iTUJ #efficiency #doge #cuiscoping #scoping #cmmc #nist800171 #cui #fci #grc #ciso https://lnkd.in/gqUegfA3

Risk management for practitioners! This document is vendor agnostic and is written for cybersecurity practitioners to gain valuable insights in how to better manage risk across organizations, regardless of the industry or size. With the concept of "material incidents" being important to public companies, ComplianceForge updated its risk management guide for cybersecurity practitioners to address the reality of enterprise-wide risk management practices. This educational reference can be downloaded from: https://lnkd.in/gPqhdT83 Special thanks to Tom Cornelius and Andy Kuykendall for their contributions to this document! #risk #riskmanagement #erm #grc #cybersecurity #ciso #board #materiality #material #negligence

There is a "materiality ecosystem" that exists within modern cybersecurity risk management discussions. The process begins with determining what constitutes materiality for an organization. This is organization-specific and is primarily based on a clearly-defined financial threshold. Defining materiality is an executive leadership determination, not a cybersecurity determination. Often, cybersecurity teams incorrectly hypothesize what “should be material” through the myopic perspective of the cybersecurity department. However, those cybersecurity-led definitions are often incorrect and are not material to the organization, much to the frustration of legal counsel that sometimes have to reprimand cybersecurity practitioners for incorrectly labeling incidents as material. For example, while a $5 million dollar incident may appear material (e.g., it is a significant sum), that financial amount may not come close to the actual materiality threshold for a prosperous organization. Once the materiality threshold is clearly defined, it then requires a look at an organization’s risk and threat management practices to identify those specific risks and threats that could lead to a material incident. Ideally, this means reviewing established risk and threat catalogs to identify known risks and threats that have material implications. In the end, the due diligence activities performed to define material risk and material threats assist with broader incident response operations. This prior work assists the organization in defining material incidents, or at least pre-determined criteria associated with incidents, that would elevate incident response activities to the proper organizational leadership, due to the existence of a material incident (e.g., external reporting requirements, reputation damage control, etc.). During incident triage is not the correct time to develop incident threshold categories to determine materiality, due to requirements such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires public companies to disclose material incidents within 72 hours. #cybersecurity #sec #material #materiality #risk #incident #threat #control #grc #ciso #incidentresponse #irp

Thank you for the mention from Koren Wise! Another successful assessment using ComplianceForge documentation. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gC3Jy-aw #cmmc #dibcac #nist800171 #audit #assessment #compliance

The 2024.3 version focused on addressing changes associated with the recent release of 32 CFR Part 170 and updated CMMC 2.0 L2 scoping guidance. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gM2xbEdw   The biggest issue with 32 CFR Part 170 is the DoD cites NIST SP 800-171 R2 in this final rule, even though NIST SP 800-171 R3 was released earlier this year and per OMB NIST 800-171 R2 will be considered a deprecated standard in May 2025. The DoD’s reason for focusing on the old version of NIST SP 800-171 includes the time needed: - For industry preparation to implement; and - To prepare the CMMC ecosystem to perform assessments against the new version.   Given this DoD's focus on NIST SP 800-171 R2 for the immediate future, ComplianceForge reorganized the NCP into three different formats to meet client needs: - NCP R2 is tailored for organizations that want to focus entirely on only NIST SP 800-171 R2. - NCP R3 is tailored for organizations that want to focus entirely on only NIST SP 800-171 R3. - NCP Combined R2 & R3 is tailored for organizations that want to address both NIST SP 800-171 R2 & R3 simultaneously.

The Unified Scoping Guide (USG) has been updated, based on new requirements from 32 CFR Part 170 and the new CMMC 2.0 L2 & L3 scoping guides. This is a zone-based model to apply a data-centric security approach for scoping sensitive & regulated data. The USG can be downloaded from: https://lnkd.in/gvbSc4Tv #scoping #compliance #controls #audit #assessment #cmmc #nist800171 #privacy #cybersecurity #governance #scope

Looking for cybersecurity documentation? You can view the catalog of ComplianceForge's affordable and editable documentation solutions. #documentation #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #privacy #policy #policies #standard #standards #controls #procedure #procedures #template #templates #grc #governance #risk #compliance #riskmanagement #nist800171 #cmmc #ciso #audit Secure Controls Framework

For those considering adopting the Secure Controls Framework, there is an educational slideshow that can be used to built awareness with stakeholders about what the SCF is and how it can help your organization.

A prioritized, phase-based approach to NIST 800-171 R3 control implementation. #nist #nist800171 #cmmc

The latest version of the NIST 800-171 Compliance Program (NCP) has "backwards compatibility” for NIST 800-171 R2 & CMMC 2.0. The NCP has crosswalk mapping and coverage down to the Assessment Objective (AO) level. The current version of the NCP covers both NIST 800-171 R3 and NIST 800-171 R2 (including CMMC 2.0) and this means you have the ability to: 1. Ensure coverage for both NIST 800-171 R3 and NIST 800-171 R2 by implementing what is in the NCP; or 2. Focus only on NIST 800-171 R2 & CMMC 2.0 requirements by deleting NIST 800-171 R3 specific controls from the NCP; or 3. Focus only on NIST 800-171 R3 requirements by deleting NIST 800-171 R2 specific controls from the NCP. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gM2xbEdw #nist #dod #dfars #nist800171 #cmmc #grc #policies #standards #procedures #scrmplan #cscrm #nist800161