Cybersecurity Operations Maturity Model (COMM)

Cybersecurity Challenges

While the cybersecurity threat environment is well known as a key challenge for Federal Departments and Agencies (D&As), there are other, equally important issues that need to be addressed when they seek to improve their cybersecurity and privacy (CS&P) programs. These are:

  • Increasing Federal CS&P related regulatory requirements, oversight, and guidance.
  • The accelerating move to a risk management versus a compliance approach.
  • Growing resource and budget constraints.

To be effective in this operational environment, Federal D&As must employ CS&P programs that focus on operating in cyberspace instead of just reacting to it.

Improving Cybersecurity and Privacy Program Maturity and Resilience

Federal customers need innovative cybersecurity and privacy (CS&P) approaches, methodologies, and best practices that address interoperability, usability, and privacy adapted to their unique mission and business environments.

Criterion’s Cybersecurity Operations Maturity Model (COMM) provides a structured manner to manage and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational and enterprise Cybersecurity and Privacy (CS&P) programs and operations.

COMM Benefits

  • Provides a structured manner to manage and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational CS&P programs and security operations centers (SOCs).
  • Offers a dynamic approach to assist customers with surveying, analyzing, documenting, and enhancing their CS&P program and SOCs.
  • Evaluates the overall management, operational, and technical readiness to perform with quality across all the phases and milestones of the cybersecurity program and operations lifecycle.
  • Helps customers build, adapt, and implement a flexible roadmap to continuously improve their CS&P program and operations; leverages CyberScale®, our U.S. patented compliance and risk management tool.
  • Applies transformative improvements to optimize CS&P program and security operations by supporting the transition from a compliance model to a risk management model while improving cyber resilience capabilities.

Cybersecurity Operations Reviews

Cybersecurity Operations Reviews (CORs) are designed to help customers build, adapt, and implement a flexible roadmap to continuously improve their cybersecurity program and operations. Our CORs are powered by CyberScale®, our patented integrated approach, methodology, workflow, and supporting tool that provides a structured manner to survey, analyze, document, manage, and enhance an organization’s CS&P program, operations, IT systems, and/or projects. The COR:

  • Identifies and evaluates cybersecurity and privacy risk utilizing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).
  • Determines the organization’s CS&P maturity.
  • Manages and tracks CS&P risk mitigation and remediation response.
  • Delivers targeted CS&P operational reviews/assessments.

Benefits of CORs

CORs save organizations significant time and resources, while helping them to truly understand the as-is state of their CS&P programs. It delivers greater in-depth analysis than any other tool or methodology available.

  • Supports NIST CSF Framework Profile and FISMA Maturity Model.
  • Provides cybersecurity and privacy program focus.
  • Delivers greater in-depth analysis – 1700+ data points.
  • Helps organizations build/adapt/implement flexible roadmap to continuously improve CS&P maturity and resilience.

Increasing Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Program Maturity

Here are a series of blog posts on how to increase federal CS&P maturity.