NISPOM Compliance

What is NISPOM?
The National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) provides baseline standards for the protection of classified information released or disclosed to industry in connection with classified contracts under the National Industrial Security Program (NISP). Chapter 8 addresses the information system security that must be in place. NISPOM was reissued February 28, 2006.

How do organizations comply with NISPOM?
The NISPOM requirements regarding the handling and protection of classified information are broad. As they pertain to electronic data, NISPOM requires contractors to implement robust data security measures that protect the confidentiality of classified information on the network or over shared outside networks (data transmission). Companies must also ensure data integrity through technologies that guaranteed the information is unaltered.

How does CipherOptics help?
CipherEngine assures the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of data in motion on any network. Our approach to protecting both your network is to deny access to everyone, and permit by exception. With that approach as our driving force, our solutions provide you with both encryption and authentication of all your critical information on the LAN or wireless LAN.

Using powerful 256-bit AES encryption that is approved by the NSA for "sensitive" information, CipherOptics hardware-accelerated encryption appliances authenticate packets and protect data. Using the robust secure hash algorithm SHA-1, our network encryptors verify the integrity of the data, rejecting any packets that have been manipulated or altered. Secure hash can also be used to thwart unauthorized intrusion at the network level. Our network encryptors' deterministic firewall feature can reject any packets that lack the proper encryption-based authentication of a trusted endpoint. This effectively blocks all unauthenticated traffic from outside the network.

In support of NISPOM, CipherOptics CipherEngine can also cryptographically segment data for secure communities of interest by separating data of different security levels that travel on the same network.

CipherOptics network encryptors are FIPS-140-2-compliant and available on government buying vehicles. They are field-proven in some of the most security-conscious networks in the world and are the preferred solution of many agencies for securing high-speed IP networks. Customers include the Social Security Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, U.S. Army and the National Security Agency.

To discuss how CipherOptics can help you can comply with NISPOM, call 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a question.

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Network Encryption
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Helpful Resources
Full National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual