Independent Assessments

The Challenge

Typically, the majority of Independent Assessment work is performed system-by-system, as each system is ready for review. This piece-meal approach can be detrimental to an agency’s overall security posture, introducing quality and consistency issues and offering little enterprise visibility into the agency’s overall certification progress. Additionally, this approach produces long and unnecessary procurement cycles, causing agencies to incur unnecessary and unpredictable expenses.

The Solution

SecureInfo’sIndependent Assessment services provides a proven enterprise approach to independent verification and validation, including consistent, quality deliverables, enterprise-wide visibility into all certification activities, and straightforward, predictable procurement. SecureInfo’sIndependent Assessmentservices provides:

• Consistent, quality deliverables through dedicated quality assurance staff.
• Centralized, dedicated Independent Assessment program management and a single point of contact.
• Enterprise visibility through a master “dashboard” view of all tasks, statuses, and authorization recommendations.
• Ready access to documentation for management reporting and Inspector General audits.
• Standardized process for system review and documentation production.
• High volume Independent Assessment team scales capacity to meet surge demand.
• Global coverage
• Predictable procurement for all systems, with work for each system authorized and funded by individual task orders.

Benefits

• 25 – 35% cost savings through streamlined, predictable procurement and standardized delivery process.
• For the IG, satisfies FISMA requirements to provide independent verification and validation.
• For the agency, assure quality of certification process and more easily satisfy IG audit requirements by providing ready access to consistent, quality Security Authorization and IV&V documentation.
• Satisfy enterprise-scale Independent Assessment requirements in compressed timeframe through highly scalable services teams.
• More cost effective, consistent Security Authorization (C&A) program by taking advantage of SecureInfo’scybersecurityexpertise, which has benefited numerous federal agencies.

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