NIST SP 800-53 is a mandatory security framework for U.S. federal agencies, established under FISMA, OMB A-130, and other laws. It safeguards federal data—including classified, unclassified, PII, CUI, health, and financial information—by requiring security controls against threats. NIST 800-53 compliance is required for all federal information systems and forms the basis for federal security regulations […]
Legacy or end of life (EOL) systems can come with tradeoffs in obsolescence and risk. Older operating systems may still work fine, but the application of AV, change detection, and system monitoring on these legacy systems presents a challenge. You no longer have to leave productive legacy IT or OT systems digitally unmonitored, unsupervised, underprotected […]
Operational technology (OT) outages can disrupt our everyday physical lives, impacting equipment at large-scale power plants, traffic lights, patient care equipment, and manufacturers and distributors meeting demand. The more critical the OT’s function, the more devastating the impact of an attack or outage. OT cyberthreats don’t go away just because your industrial control system (ICS), […]
Don’t leave your legacy or end of life (EOL) systems exposed due to a false sense of security or misconception that security software and service are no longer available for the platform. AIX and Solaris have become legacy platforms; many cybersecurity vendors have dropped support for these OSs, especially the end of life (EOL) versions—or […]
Atomic OSSEC SIEM collects, distills and analyzes severity-based threat, vulnerability, and FIM events, and other indicators of attack. A security information and event management (SIEM) system is only as good as the quality of information it provides. Too many alerts and too many data points can result in mountains of data for security engineers, analysts, […]
Continue to meet FedRAMP security control requirements, amid uncertainty, with Atomicorp NIST 800-171 compliance solutions. The U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) codifies and standardizes the security required by cloud service providers in protecting federal unclassified information. FedRAMP security controls define the standards by which federal agencies and third-party assessors measure and assess […]
(Facilitate NIST 800-171 and ISO 27001 compliance with the NIST 800-171 security controls in Atomic OSSEC, the most advanced version of OSSEC HIDS.) NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 is a security compliance guideline that primarily affects government contractors and suppliers to the DoD. Federal agencies require NIST 800-171 adherence in contractual agreements with nonfederal organizations […]
PCI DSS Version 4.0 Deadline: March 31, 2025 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, version 4.0 (i.e., PCI DSS v.4.0), is effective March 31, 2025. Organizations intending to remain in compliance with Payment Card Industry credit card data protection requirements must be transitioned to the new PCI Data Security Standard, version 4.0 by this date. […]
By Scott Shinn A file integrity monitoring (FIM) system performs the crucial role of detecting system and file changes and determining the who, what, and where. FIM is a requirement of many security and privacy system integrity (SI) standards and regulations and an early warning system for when an intruder or malware strikes. File integrity […]
By Scott Shinn Detect, analyze and respond to changes to computing systems and other signs of intruder activity with log-based IDS and XDR, including file integrity monitoring (FIM), from Atomicorp. Atomic OSSEC is an extended detection and response (XDR) system that addresses six key information security and compliance functional areas: log-based intrusion detection, file integrity […]
