Compliance with NIST 800-171
The new standards should be met by anyone who either stores or transmits this kind of potentially sensitive information, CUI for the GSA or DoD. That also includes the contractual agency relationships. Achieving this compliance will require getting deep into the procedures to make sure the appropriate security protocols are addressed.
If the protocols aren’t properly addressed, then this could severely affect any deals with the agencies which also include contract severances. If someone misses the deadline, then you can be at high risk of losing contracts or damage relationships. The entire process for becoming compliant with these standards was made by the NIST 800-171 and will take some time to implement. There are various cybersecurity practices that you will be able to implement to protect your business and important information.
Advantages of Having a Compliant Environment
Well, acquiring a complete NIST 800-171 compliance does much more than just maintain fund eligibility or deflect fines. Moreover, the requirement organization should dually comply with the best practices that they should be using regardless as it increases a given organization’s ability to provide the most honest services. Let us take a look at the advantages that organizations are likely to experience if they have a compliant environment.
Protection of Vital Assets
NIST 800-171 compliance is a cybersecurity framework that provides a list of better practices which are in the form of controls that an organization can implement to boost up the security of its systems. As no other method is fool-proof to stop the information leakages from happenings, being compliant with the standards will surely help an organization to become more cognizant of how to protect vital data in case of a breach.
Avoiding Loss of Customers
Over 30 percent of the consumers surveyed have stated that they are willing to discontinue their relations with an organization after it has been breached. Also, more than 60 percent of them reported a loss of trust in these organizations.
Maintaining Reputation
Breaches can have severe negative impacts and can damage the hard-earned reputation of the company. According to a survey, it was recorded that the share values of publicly traded organizations for a month before the data breach and 3 months later dropped by more than 5 percent.
Reducing Downtime
In case the data is leaked, then being compliant with NIST 800-171 will ensure that the company has proper procedures in place to effectively respond to the incident. Quick detection, as well as the response time, can help shorten the overall impact of that data breach on the company. In addition to that, the downtime that a company will experience post-breach will also be minimized.
Avoid Legal and Financial Repercussions
In case an entity isn’t compliant and suffers a breach, then the affected parties can seek to recover damages through various litigation activities. If any data of the govt. is compromised as a result of a breach, then the agency can pursue legal action and charge fines as well.
What do We Offer?
At CyNtell, we aim to assist the contractors to understand the needs that are made by the NIST. They try to take proper steps that are necessary towards the protection of the CUI confidentiality.
Here are some of our tools that are specifically developed to organize as well as execute operations in the best possible way-
- Detection of Intruders
- Assessment Vulnerability
- Security Information
- Finding shortcomings where hackers may find a way to infiltrate the data and vital systems.
- Monitoring cybersecurity and spot anomalies
- Identify threats and the activities at the entry point
If you are a DoD contractor who needs help in compliance with DFARS, then get in touch with us and avail of in-depth compliance consultation now.