Dfars Compliance

The Défense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) is a set of cybersecurity regulations imposed by the US Department of Defence (DoD). The DFARS maintains cybersecurity standards according to requirements laid out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), specifically NIST SP 800-171.

NIST 800-171 specifies the should have methods in place to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) to meet the cyberthreats of the day. The wording of the clause is broad and mandates every company doing business with the DoD, across any industry, whether technical or non-technical to be compliant with the DFARS guidelines.

DFARS Requisites

The DFARS compliance requirements for DoD-contractors and Primes are straightforward and reasonable.

Adequate security to safeguard CUI that resides in or transits through your internal information systems from unauthorized access and disclosure

Report cyber incidents within 72 hours and work with the DoD to respond and mitigate the security incidents by providing the necessary access to affected media and submitting malicious software.

The guidelines identify the following 14 control families to handle the 110 controls specified in the regulations.

Value Proposition for DFARS

Gains the upper hand amongst the competition

Mandatory to generate revenue selling to DoD-related businesses.

Measures supplier’s ability to protect sensitive information and manage cybersecurity risk

Being Compliant makes your Primes comfortable, keeping you in their supply chain.

DFAR compliance is one of the key points to win bids from DoD or Primes.

Accomplishing DFARS Compliance with SQ1Shield

DFARS - NIST 800-171 compliance can be achieved in 4 simple steps with SQ1Shield - a purpose-built cloud platform to achieve the DFARS regulations in a simplified manner.

DFARS Compliance using SQ1Shield

DFARS requires 300 Assessment Objectives to be fulfilled for an organization to achieve compliance. SQ1Shields core-competencies helps organizations achieve the same.

Risk Management Incident Response Continuous Monitoring Compliance Management Vendor Risk Management Breach Notification Configuration Management

SQ1Shield features a risk dashboard, which helps you understand all your risks at one glance.

Perform risk assessment and monitor the risk of systems that have access to CUI, which in turn helps draft the company’s privacy policies.

The one-view dashboard helps you assess, monitor, and manage risk continuously.

Threat intelligence feature helps in threat protection from multiple Global threat intelligence feeds by Identification of emerging threat tactics, techniques, and procedures.

In the case of security breaches, it becomes essential to have a response action in plan. SQ1Shield can be programmed to follow up with an active response plan that suits the working of the organization.

Automated Incident Response correlates events to detect threats. It identifies the various incidents, including data breach, and performs rule-based responses to counter the incidents. In the case of violations, the program alerts all the stakeholders as pre-programmed.

Security orchestration and automated response capabilities enable rapid response to incidents.

Automated ticketing Systems and integration with other tools ensure a guided threat response. It also captures and monitors any password changes and expiry.

SQ1Shield continuously monitors the working of the organization, to detect threats and protect the network from the same.

Monitor for Indicators of Compromise (IoC) of malware-based compromises.

Monitor successful and failed login attempts in both internal and external applications

Detect modification attempts to applications or files, on-prem, or cloud, containing CUI.

Tracks and monitor security and compliance events

Regularly monitors and updates the software to their latest updates to fix the vulnerabilities present in them.

Periodically test systems and processes connected to the network and running on the web to identify and fix the threats and risks posed to the organization's network.

Automated Incident Response correlates events to detect threats.

Security orchestration enables rapid response to incidents.

Automated ticketing Systems and integration with other tools ensure a guided threat response.

Continuous Compliance to meet DFARS Requirements.

Policy Management feature enables automatic identification, management, and tracking of policies across the organization.

Test all Your Employees on Security Awareness

Simulates different types of Phishing Attacks

Identify all vendors who have access to CUI

Perform Risk Assessment of all Vendors on their processes

Ensure technical and organizational measures are in place for data integrity in all Vendors

Map all incidents

Evaluate the incident for breach of CUI

Report the impact to DIBNET DOD within a timeline of 72 hours

Built-in Notification capabilities – to alert stakeholders of incidents, through email, and SMS.

Perform Configuration Audit

Verify if Product Baseline Matches with Documentation

Validate if the Information Placed in Configuration Management Plan is Complete

View Audit Report

Implement Recommendations

Key Differentiator of SQ1Shield

Maintain System Security Plan & Plan of Action & Milestones

One-view dashboard for all security and compliance needs

Easy plug-play installation

SQ1Shield helps you confront the compliance gaps so that risks can be prioritized and addressed.

SQ1Shields’s built-in reports feature help you format report quickly on security controls.

Continuous Compliance, Risk management, Privacy Management, and Monitoring for both security and compliance requirements

Privacy and Security awareness training for employees

Dfars Compliance