Helping to deliver on the Executive Order to enhance US national cybersecurity and improve the protection of federal networks, cybersecurity teams across 30+ US agencies use Nipper to test configurations and improve the security and compliance posture of federal networks.
As the configuration of networks is critical to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of the most sensitive federal data, systems, and services, it needs to be assessed and validated regularly. Which is why Nipper is a trusted component in the vulnerability management toolsets of 30+ federal agencies, helping them assess routers, switches and firewalls to detect critical misconfiguration.
The software also provides agencies with risk mitigation advice and device-specific technical fixes to improve mean time to remediate. Nipper can then be used to track when vulnerabilities have been remediated, providing an up-to-date view of the security and compliance posture of the agency to ensure skilled network resources are used to best effect. Users can also assess their performance against benchmarks and controls, such as NIST SP 800-53 to evidence compliance against the CDM Asset Management Capability, and specifically the Configuration Settings Management (CSM) and Vulnerability Management (VUL) capabilities.
With Nipper Enterprise, agencies are now able to continuously assess network security on an up-to-hourly basis and have a roadmap to playbook-controlled remediation of identified misconfigurations.
