Policy Formulation: Defining, documenting, and enforcing security policies across the agency.
Risk Management: Identifying system vulnerabilities and executing risk assessments regularly.
Compliance & Oversight: Ensuring the agency adheres to federal, state, and internal security mandates. Creating Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) documents acting as a mandatory roadmap required by federal frameworks like NIST SP 800-53 and FISMA to prove the organization is actively fixing its security gaps.
Incident Response: Leading the coordination, reporting, and recovery efforts if a security breach occurs.
Security Training: Conducting awareness training and phishing simulations for government employees
Assessment is a continuous discipline in government information services used to evaluate operational effectiveness and compliance.
Security Assessments: Regular evaluations of security and privacy controls to determine if they are implemented correctly and operating as intended.
Process Assessment Models (e.g., ISO/IEC 33071): Disciplines used to assess and improve the capability of enterprise processes across government organizations.
Independent Audits: Objective reviews of an agency's Information Security Management System to achieve or maintain ISO certification.
Vulnerability Scanning: Automated testing to identify weaknesses in government networks before they can be exploited by threat actors.