Cornerstone is a leading cyber security solutions provider, focused on mitigating cyber threats, protecting client organization’s critical assets, infrastructure and applications across federal and commercial clients.
Cornerstone’s Training Model is a holistic methodology to provide practical content which is measured and reinforced consistently.
Our cyber security trainings are focused on training our clients to gain mastery in:
Preparation of ATO packages:
We teach our clients to gain mastery in preparing ATO packages such as the SSP, ISCP, CMP, PIA, PTA SORN, BIA, POA&M and the likes. The package provides the Authorizing Official (AO) the essential information they need to make a risk-based decision about whether to authorize the operation of your application or a designated set of controls.
Assessment & Authorization :
As part of the A&A process, we educate and arm our clients to do a comprehensive evaluation of their information system policies, security controls, policies around safeguards, and documented vulnerabilities. The purpose of the A&A process is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of an organization’s security requirements.
FISMA Compliance & Risk Management:
FISMA requires any program officers, compliance officials, and agency heads to oversee annual security reviews. These reviews are used to review risk management strategies and keep potential compliance risks at a minimum. Initially, FISMA compliance was meant for federal government agencies, hence the name. However, over time it has also expanded to include state agencies such as Medicare. Furthermore, it now also requires any company and civilian agencies with a contractual relationship with the government to be FISMA compliant. Owing to this, we teach our clients on how to meet and stay in compliance with government policies and regulations under FISMA.
Governance & Continuous Monitoring:
Continuously monitoring attempted intrusions to your systems and networks enables you to protect information and speed up compliance efforts to meet new standards and regulations. Regulations and standards increasingly focus on management’s governance over your cybersecurity compliance program. As part of this effort, we educate our clients to continuously assess controls, rules need to be developed to test in real-time (or near-real-time) compliance with the previously mentioned formal assertions that are required to be made about the selected controls.
Risk Management Framework:
All companies face risk. Without risk, rewards are less likely. The flip side of this is that too much risk can lead to business failure. Risk management allows a balance to be struck between taking risks and reducing them. Effective risk management can add value to any organization. In particular, companies operating in the investment industry rely heavily on risk management as the foundation that allows them to withstand market crashes. An effective risk management framework seeks to protect an organization's capital base and earnings without hindering growth. We assist our clients to reduce the amount of damage certain risks can have on their system and company processes.
Introduction to Cloud Security:
The holistic practice of confidential computing, which encompasses data protection, encryption, and network security features, allows businesses to discover the transformative value of the cloud. Secure cloud computing encompasses three core capabilities: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The cloud offers on-demand compute and storage resources that can help transform businesses and accelerate services development and deployment. However, businesses can’t enjoy all these potential benefits without a strong backbone to help protect them from digital threats, malware, and hackers. We educate our clients to reduce total attack surface, manage risks to accessing cloud resources, and ultimately make it profitable and beneficial to use the cloud because many public clouds have cybersecurity, encryption, and data protection baked into their service offerings.
Vulnerability Management:
The modern cyber ecosystem is anything but static. It’s a constantly shifting, evolving entity that continually expands to encompass new technologies, systems, and individuals. Unfortunately, this makes security a daunting task. New digital vulnerabilities are being discovered on a nearly daily basis, accounting for thousands of new threat vectors every year that may be exploited—causing significant problems for organizations across essentially every industry. Vulnerability management allows you to identify, prioritize, and respond to software issues and misconfigurations that could be exploited by attackers, lead to inadvertent release of sensitive data, or disrupt business operations. It is in this wise that we help businesses identify and fix potential security issues before they become serious cybersecurity concerns. By preventing data breaches and other security incidents, vulnerability management can prevent damage to a company's reputation and bottom line.
IV&V Services:
Resolving project challenges and software issues early is possible with proactive strategies. Independent verification and validation (IV&V) is one method for doing so successfully and affordably. Cornerstone is an authorized provider of IV&V services for many organizations and other federal government agencies. We’re a team of IT professionals emphasizing “robust security” in Cyber technology.
We can manage your complete security needs and meet compliance and regulatory requirements.