Implement the detection system that provides the ability to verify data authenticity. This will help you align with FISMA and NIST SP 800-53 compliance requirements. Instead of exhausting investigations, you can have a simple verification to pinpoint data tampering within your information systems.
The Federal Information Security Modernization Act was created to improve the security of information systems across the US federal and state agencies, including the businesses they contracted. NIST SP 800-53 matches its key requirements within the security controls. By executing security and privacy controls adapted to the organizational needs, it is possible to mitigate unauthorized access and data tampering. This goes beyond compliance; it is about verifying the authenticity of data with appropriate accountability.
Use Truth Enforcer to turn auditing, accountability, and authenticity into actionable processes. Prevent data tampering from going unnoticed by creating an operational framework that guarantees validation and verification.
The Five Areas in NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-53 acts as a guide to keep systems secure. The guidelines divide security controls into 20 sections that cover cybersecurity qualities such as access control, incident response, and system protection. In that, five actionable areas protect your organization:
- Identification: identify your most critical assets.
- Protection: set up strong defenses, such as controlling access, encrypting data, and securing everything from the start.
- Detection: proactively monitor unusual activity to catch potential threats early.
- Response: act quickly to neutralize threats and minimize damage if something goes wrong.
- Recovery: plan to restore systems and improve processes after an incident.
Together, these steps help ensure your data stays safe. They interact to build security and resilience while enabling your enterprise to keep moving forward, even if you face setbacks.
Monitoring and Detection
Detection is a key element within NIST SP 800-53 and essential to maintaining integrity across information systems. The monitoring is a part of the procedure to continuously detect any anomalies in the information being produced during the activities executed in the information system. The goal here is to identify anomalies but also extends toward unauthorized access. The measures an organization must implement for detection will mitigate threats (active or potential), control the damage magnitude, and align with compliance with regulatory requirements, which may go beyond the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), depending on the specific industry.
Trustworthiness and Assurance
Now, applying these measures also fulfills another part of the fundamental requirements. Specifically, it is the ones that mandate access to evidence about the executed control implementations for those involved in business activities.
As part of FISMA’s security controls, this does not only target federal agencies but also those who work with them.
Again, the delimited metrics for safety extend beyond access control, assessment, configuration, and planning. It is about the ability to check the veracity of the data. Thus, the power to verify any tampering enables agencies and organizations under this regulatory compliance to provide evidence that everything remains authentic according to the data associated with the document’s origin. More than a system in place, there is a need for trust and assurance.
Results of Data Integrity
The overview of this compliance must be apparent to those within federal agencies associated with them or striving for a completely secure information system: monitoring and detecting any data tampering while leaving an immutable trail will bring assurance and trustworthiness to all stakeholders. Not only the action but also proof of its execution. That is the complete view of what it means to ensure data integrity in your information systems.
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By Francisco Rodrigues, Business Analyst
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