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NIST SP 800-53 Compliance Reporting Made Easy
Your guide to the innovative new features in Titania's dedicated NIST SP 800-53 Compliance Report
What is NIST 800-53?
NIST Special Publication 800-53 is a catalog of security controls that help safeguard information systems from a range of risks. It was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to strengthen US government information systems against known threats.
Validate NIST SP 800-53 compliance using trusted pathways
Demonstrating compliance with the NIST SP 800-53 framework has typically involved manually mapping CDE network infrastructure device checks to requirements – a process which is inherently time-consuming.
The new NIST SP 800-53 Compliance Report from Titania changes all this. Using trusted pathways of validation, Nipper software now provides an automated way to embed the risk focus, evidence and best practice required to deliver security from compliance with the framework.
Cybersecurity teams can:
- Assess network compliance with NIST SP 800-53
- Validate compliance with evidence
- Prioritize non-compliances for remediation
Five innovative new report features
Streamlining compliance reporting so you can focus on improving network security posture.
Delivering so much more than accurate compliance reporting, Nipper’s new NIST SP 800-53 report is packed with powerful insights to help embed the risk focus, evidence and best practice required to deliver security from compliance.
Here’s your guide to risk prioritizing non-compliances for remediation, tracking changes between audits, and driving further investigation into whether drift was accidental or deliberate.
1. At-a-glance compliance posture
Innovation
Nipper checks are automatically mapped to NIST SP 800-53 requirements. The assessment findings are summarized to provide visibility of the compliance posture of devices.
Benefit
Get a high-level overview of the NIST SP 800-53 assessment results, summarizing passes, fails, and any findings that require further investigation, as well as checks that are not applicable.
2. Potential impact summary
Innovation
Nipper prioritizes non-compliances according to STIG CAT I, CAT II, and CAT III status, reflecting risk criticality. Identifies the specific devices affected that carry a non-compliance risk and require remediating action.
Benefit
Drill down to passes and failures, to understand the potential impact of non-compliance as well as determine which checks need to be performed manually.
3. Risk-prioritized findings
Innovation
Nipper’s analysis of each ‘passed’ check provides the evidence required to show compliance, whilst detailed risk information about any failures helps inform remediation workflows.
Benefit
For each device - see findings against applicable NIST SP 800-53 requirements, with an explanation of the testing procedure.
4. Continuous assurance
Innovation
Nipper Resilience provides immediate awareness of any device configuration changes, providing assurance that planned network changes have not created new vulnerabilities, as well as alerting network owners to any unplanned changes.
Benefit
Effectively manage configuration drift with NIST SP 800-53 assessments of every router, switch and firewall, on an up-to-hourly basis with Nipper Resilience.
5. Augmented compliance evidence
Innovation
Nipper Resilience provides immediate awareness of any device configuration changes, providing assurance that planned network changes have not created new vulnerabilities, as well as alerting network owners to any unplanned changes.
Benefit
Effectively manage configuration drift with NIST SP 800-53 assessments of every router, switch and firewall, on an up-to-hourly basis with Nipper Resilience.
Whether you are a federal agency looking for continuous assurance, or non-federal organization that needs to evidence NIST SP 800-53 compliance, there is a Nipper solution for you.
On-demand device security and compliance using
Nipper
Auditors and external assessors choose Nipper to quickly verify configurations are secure and/or meet regulatory compliance standards, reducing their audit times by up to 80%.
Continuous security and compliance assurance with Nipper Resilience
Deployed by SOCs to assure the security and compliance posture of network infrastructure, Nipper Resilience adds a transformative proactive security layer to the NOC tech stack and integrates with SIEM, SOAR, GRC and trouble-ticketing solutions.
Leaders in proactive security and compliance assurance for network infrastructure
Titania is a world leader in continuous configuration drift analysis for routers, switches and firewalls, helping NOCs and SOCs around the world build configuration confidence in their network infrastructure. Automating an inside-out view of security and compliance vulnerabilities across the network, Nipper solutions enable risk-prioritized remediation to shut down attack vectors that pose real-world threats to the enterprise.
And now, for the first time, the solutions automate evidence-based NIST SP 800-53 compliance reporting against DoD Control Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI) and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA) criteria.