Fedramp certification & Cybersecurity & Compliance Firm

  Tony Bai, A-LIGN’s Federal Practice Lead, and Emily Cummins, Anitian’s Director of Cloud Security, team up to discuss how technology can make your journey to FedRAMP certification a more streamlined process, saving you time and resources. FedRAMP was designed to provide a cost-efficient and risk-based approach to cloud adoption for federal departments and agencies. The creation of the FedRAMP security assessment framework was based on the Risk Management Framework (RMF) that implements the FISMA (Federal Information Security Modernization Act) requirements and NIST SP 800-53 . FedRAMP provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring specifically for cloud products and services relied upon by federal entities that store, process, and transmit federal information. With technology now playing a major role in compliance assessments across the board, FedRAMP is no exception. Technology allows organizations to quickly prepare for an a...

  Cybersecurity should never be an afterthought. Prepare your organization for the threat of ransomware with A-LIGN’s new Ransomware Preparedness Assessment. With ransomware attacks on the rise, it’s crucial that your organization is prepared. A-LIGN’s Ransomware Preparedness Assessment puts an effective strategy in place to help prevent attacks and mitigate potential damage if an attack occurs. Cybersecurity threats aren’t new to organizations, but over the past year, one threat rose above the others: ransomware attacks . Though most malicious actors will seek out organizations that could have the greatest payout (or, in the case of the Colonial Pipeline attack, wreak the greatest havoc), it’s more likely that attackers look for known weaknesses they can easily exploit. The reality is that ransomware is a growing threat. In fact, the ransomware global attack volume increased by 151% for the first six months of 2021 compared to the first six months of 2020. And here are a few ot...

Can ISO 27701 guarantee GDPR compliance? ISO 27701 can well position any organisation for future GDPR compliance. While one is a management system and the other is a technically a legal framework, ISO 27701 helps to create a path on your journey to GDPR. In 2019, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) introduced ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (more commonly referred to as ISO 27701 ). This was done to provide organisations with an additional component to stack on top of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (referred to as ISO 27001 ). But the availability of the combined adoption of ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 raised a lot of questions in the privacy community. The biggest question: will the combination of ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 equate to GDPR compliance? In short, the answer is “no,” but it can help you along the way toward GDPR compliance. ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 together offer a way for organisations to bolster information security management ...