Leveraging NIST CSF for Public Sector Cybersecurity

Government agencies saw targeted attacks rise 40% and vulnerability submissions surge 151%; case studies including the CISA VDP show how crowdsourced security strengthens public sector defense.

The post explains how NIST 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP fit together for federal compliance and how pentesting with ethical hackers helps agencies and cloud providers meet these requirements.

Wiz for Government achieves FedRAMP High authorization, complying with 421+ NIST SP 800-53r5 controls and extending code-to-cloud visibility to agencies running highly sensitive workloads.

Wiz for Government achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization four years after the company's founding, making it the fastest to be listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace and easing adoption by agencies.

Wiz for Gov achieves StateRAMP authorization after an independent audit, complementing its FedRAMP Moderate review; the post explains why the program matters for state and local governments.

I attended the PCI-SSC community meeting this past week (September 22-24). There were three key issues discussed that showed that the PCI program is maturing and that a number of standards and regulations are converging (both in and outside the PCI world).