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Find out which FISMA and NIST cybersecurity provisions you can address with Netwrix

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) defines a framework for ensuring the effectiveness of security controls over information and information systems that support federal operations. To achieve FISMA compliance, all federal agencies and organizations working on behalf of U.S. federal government agencies must meet the minimum security requirements defined in the security standard called FIPS 200.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issues standards, guidelines and other publications to assist these federal agencies and other organizations in achieving and maintaining FISMA compliance. In particular, NIST SP 800-53 provides information security controls that fully support FIPS 200 and enable organizations to meet FISMA information security requirements. FISMA compliance software from Netwrix helps you implement and validate the following NIST SP 800-53 security controls:

• Family: Access Control (AC)
  • AC-2; AC-3; AC-6; AC-7; AC-17; AC-18; AC-20
• Family: Audit and Accountability (AU)
  • AU-3; AU-4; AU-5; AU-6; AU-7; AU-8; AU-9; AU-11; AU-12; AU-14
• Family: Configuration Management (CM)
  • CM-2; CM-3; CM-5; CM-6; CM-11
• Family: Identification and Authentication
  • IA-2; IA-3; IA-4; IA-5
• Family: Incident Response (IR)
  • IR-4; IR-5; IR-9
• Family: Personnel Security (PS)
  • PS-4; PS-5
• Family: Risk Assessment (RA)
  • RA-2; RA-3
• Family: System and Information Integrity (SI)
  • SI-4; SI-12

Depending on the configuration of your IT systems, your internal procedures, the nature of your business and other factors, Netwrix might also facilitate implementation of NIST SP 800-53 controls not listed above.

See exactly how Netwrix solutions support requirements of FISMA compliance

Netwrix delivers the enterprise-wide visibility into changes, configurations and access events in hybrid IT environments you need to enforce information security controls across your on-premises and cloud-based information systems. Unlike some other FISMA compliance solutions on the market, it provides security intelligence to help you identify security holes, detect anomalies in user behavior and investigate threat patterns before they turn into breaches, and also includes data discovery and classification functionality to further harden your data security management processes.

Gain a high-level view of the sensitive data you store

Understand what kinds of regulated information you store, including financial data, medical records and other types of PII, and see exactly where it is located across all your data silos, both on premises and in the cloud.

Identify information security gaps that require your immediate attention

Secure your valuable assets from cyber threats by identifying data and infrastructure security gaps in three key areas: account management, security permissions and data governance.

Streamline regular attestations of access rights to sensitive data

See who has access to the sensitive information you store and work with data owners to limit user permissions in accordance with business needs. Rigorously enforcing the least-privilege principle will help minimize risk.

Detect security policy violations before they turn into security breaches

Having a strong identity and access management program on paper is not enough. To ensure that it works as it supposed to, stay on top of any suspicious activity that might lead to a security incident. Get alerted about all changes to users and groups, especially those who have privileged access to critical resources in your IT environment. environment.

Streamline investigation of information security incidents

When an incident occurs, quickly analyze how it happened and who was behind it. Use this information to determine the best response to the incident and identify weak spots so you can prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

Check out how Netwrix helps other federal agencies ensure information security