News & Ramblings

Risk. What to Do With It.

By Kathryn Daily, CISSP, CAP, RDRP Recently our regional grocery store chain notified their employees and customers that they had a data breach involving some HR data and pharmacy records. The breach was caused by a vulnerability in the Accellion file sharing system which the grocery chain immediately stopped using. As I was perusing the…

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RMF Across the Government Landscape

By Lon J. Berman, CISSP, RDRP More than ten years ago, RMF came into existence with the intention of becoming the “unified information security framework for the federal government”. With widespread adoption of RMF throughout most federal civil agencies, DoD components and intelligence community agencies, it is safe to say that goal has been met.…

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Why Free Online RMF Training Isn’t Enough

By Philip D. Schall, Ph.D., CISSP, RDRP At IT Dojo, we often have conversations with our students on the topic of taking formal classroom RMF training. In the modern digital landscape, we are able to learn about and complete projects we never thought possible twenty years ago through free online resources. The internet has enabled…

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Guaranteed to Run Live Remote Online Cisco Classes

Below is a list of upcoming Guaranteed to Run Cisco classes running in Live Remote Online format that are coming up.  If you are interested, please reach out to Nick@itdojo.com.  Details and pricing provided upon request. CLCOR: Implementing Cisco Collaboration Core Technologies     02-22 to 02-26 ENWLSD: Designing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks   03-01 to 03-05 SDWADV: Cisco SD-WAN…

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Welcome, Step 0

By Lon J. Berman, CISSP, RDRP Q. The Risk Management Framework (RMF) life cycle is comprised of how many steps? A. Oh, that’s easy, it’s six. Well … not so fast. As you probably know, the Risk Management Framework (RMF) has always been described as a six step process, to wit: 1-Categorize, 2- Select, 3-Implement,…

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