What Happened

• DSS scheduled a Security Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) with with a company who had not been visited by DSS in over 3 years.
• The assessment took place and the company was given a “marginal” rating with 15 days to mitigate all vulnerabilities sited on the inspection before the Facility Clearance would he “Administratively Terminated”
• Expert FSO received a call from the company asking that we help them with these vulnerabilities.
• For several days an Expert FSO consultant was on site assisting with this cleanup and the mitigations.
• All vulnerabilities we mitigated in the time requested.
• The company ended up utilizing Expert FSO for all of their day to day Security tasks and DSS compliance matters on a regular basis

 

Result

• The company was able to maintain their Facility Clearance
• The company no longer has to worry about their Security program now that they have full support from Expert FSO
• The same company had a Security Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) a year and a half later and received a “Commendable” rating from DSS.
• Key Management and Executives can focus back on other priorities without worrying about Security