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Capabilities Assessments

Capabilities Assessments

Capabilities assessments (risk, data privacy, InfoSec, cyber, and regulatory compliance) for Department of Defense (DoD) contractors.

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Capabilities Assessments for DoD Contractors | Risk | Data Privacy | Cybersecurity | Regulatory Compliance

Arlington’s Capabilities Assessments are strategy driven engagements that dig deep in understanding what your business does, where it wants to go, how it should get there, what’s stopping you, and what’s the roadmap for success. Our Capabilities Assessments methodology can be applied to almost any topic, including key organizational risks, data privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and more.

The DoD industry is incredibly complex, rapidly changing, creating immense challenges for organizations offering services to the broader defense sector. With Arlington, we can help organizations reimagine and rethink their entire business concept from the ground up, giving you a new perspective on what’s needed for long-term sustainability – and profitability – when working with the largest federal bureaucracy in the United States.

Additionally, from FISMA to FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, eMASS – and more – regulatory compliance is alive and well in the DoD.

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Re-Thinking and Re-Imagining your Capabilities

Arlington offers the following Capabilities Assessments services:

Benefits of Arlington’s Capabilities Assessments

  • An incredibly powerful methodology for assessing organizational capabilities.

  • Yields highly useful information for building a successful, sustainable business model.

  • Highly effective in uncovering business opportunities for increased growth.

Why Arlington for Capabilities Assessments

  • Highly specialized DoD consulting firm dedicated to compliance and strategy.

  • Hundreds of successful engagements over the last decade for DoD contractors.

  • Fixed-fee pricing for all of our DoD services.

Why Arlington?

Decades of Defense Industry Expertise. Recognized leaders in all things DoD. World-Class Arlington Security Portal (ASP).

Passion. Integrity. Innovation. Impact.

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Risk Capabilities Assessments

Organizations are being challenged like never before with a large and growing number of critical risk factors affecting their day-to-day operations. “What’s your appetite for risk” is the question often asked when assessing organizational risk issues, yet many organizations fail to have a solid answer. With Arlington, our Risk Capabilities Assessments offer a fresh perspective and unique approach to assessing risk.

Specifically, we focus on the following measures:

  • Assessing current risk management practices and risk tolerances

  • Developing and implementing an agreed upon risk management framework and related practices

  • Determining and agreeing on future desired risk management practices

  • Producing a gap analysis of where you currently are and where you want to be in terms of risk management

  • Collaborative engagement on closing gaps for getting you closer to the desired risk practices

  • Piecing it all together with a proven roadmap incorporating essential design, implementation, and continuous monitoring activities

Data Privacy Capabilities Assessments

Defense contractors often have highly sensitive data resident in their information systems – and many times – it’s data owned by a federal agency. Key to protecting the likes of CUI, UCTI, CDI – and any other form of data – is understanding exactly how data is being collected, used, shared & disclosed, stored, protected, retained, and disposed of.

With Arlington’s Data Privacy Capabilities Assessments, we take a deep dive, focusing on the following measures:

  • Assessing current data privacy practices and risk tolerances

  • Developing and implementing an agreed upon data privacy program, complete with policies, procedures, and practices

  • Producing a gap analysis on your current data privacy practices, and measures to undertake for remediation

  • Collaborative engagement on working together on closing out all gaps

  • Piecing it all together with a proven roadmap incorporating essential design, implementation, and continuous monitoring activities

Information Security/Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessments

Today’s InfoSec and cybersecurity risks are bigger, more complex, and more dangerous than ever before. These issues alone force organizations to spend untold sums of money and time in shoring up their security posture. Yet before spending precious dollars and man-hours on such important issues, organizations would greatly benefit in taking a step back and truly examining their overall security strategy. Arlington’s Information Security/Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessments do just that, focusing on both the present and the future in terms of security.

Specifically, our Regulatory Compliance Capabilities assessments focus on the following measures:

  • Assessing current information security and cybersecurity practices and risk tolerances

  • Developing and implementing an agreed upon set of InfoSec and cybersecurity framework and best practices, complete with policies, procedures, and practices

  • Producing a gap analysis on your current InfoSec/Cybersecurity privacy practices, and measures to undertake for remediation

  • Collaborative engagement on working together on closing out all gaps

  • Piecing it all together with a proven roadmap incorporating essential design, implementation, and continuous monitoring activities

Regulatory Compliance Capabilities Assessments

The drumbeat of regulatory compliance for DoD contractors just keeps getting louder and louder each year. Growing information security cybersecurity challenges are creating a tidal wave of rules and regulations that see no end in sight. What DoD contractors need is a comprehensive, yet efficient process for managing growing regulatory compliance mandates. From FISMA to FedRAMP, DFARS NIST 800-171, CMMC, eMASS – and more – regulatory compliance is here to stay for DoD contractors.  

Specifically, our security-focused Capabilities Assessments focus on the following measures:

  • Assessing current regulatory compliance mandates (i.e., FISMA, FedRAMP, DFARS NIST 800-171, CMMC, eMASS, etc.)

  • Developing and implementing the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) for an all-encompassing compliance umbrella

  • Producing a gap analysis on current regulatory compliance practices, and measures to undertake for remediation

  • Collaborative engagement on working together on closing out all gaps

  • Piecing it all together with a proven roadmap incorporating essential design, implementation, and continuous monitoring activities