Ensure you can work with the Federal government with FISMA certification.
Are you pursuing federal contracts, or currently working with a federal agency? A-LIGN’s expert federal assessors can help your company meet FISMA’s requirements for all agencies to develop, document, and implement an information security and protection program.
Depend on a trusted partner like A-LIGN who has extensive federal assessment experience with FISMA and NIST Special Publication 800-53.
Maintain contractual compliance with FISMA Certification
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed NIST 800-53 to comply with the information security requirements of FISMA.
Compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is essential to properly safeguard the systems and maintain contractual compliance.
A-LIGN will assist you through the system risk categorization, security control implementation and assessment, and required penetration testing to demonstrate compliance with NIST 800-53.
The benefits of FISMA certification:
- Enables your organization to do business in compliance with the Federal government
- Demonstrates your ability to meet federal agency’s cybersecurity compliance requirements to obtain an authorization to operate (ATO)
- Ensures you are covering best practices outlined in many security frameworks
FISMA services
- NIST 800-53 gap assessment
- System risk categorization
- Security control implementation and assessment
NIST 800-53 gap assessment
We review your environment and determine if it is technically capable of meeting NIST 800-53 requirements.
System risk categorization
We identify the risk categorization of your organization and identify the specific controls from NIST 800-53 that must be in place to comply with the standard.
Security control implementation and assessment
Following the testing guidance from NIST, we conduct an assessment to determine your organization’s compliance with NIST 800-53. With the use of agency-supplied templates, A-LIGN can assist with your organization’s FISMA compliance requirements.