Lazarus Alliance Partnering Provides Audit & Compliance and Regulatory Support

You have customers working with you today who need or demand additional support for their own compliance, risk, governance, and cybersecurity programs.

Maybe your firm is a Public Accounting Firm and your clients work with you on taxation, but they also require a SOC 1 or SOC 2, which you do not provide. Rather than them begin a search for a provider who may offer everything they require, why not choose Lazarus Alliance Partnering to support your customer together?

MSP partners frequently host and support clients with preparedness and readiness services; however, these same customers also require completing those certifications and attestations, such as StateRAMP, FedRAMP, SOC 2, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and many others. Work with Lazarus Alliance Partnering to support your customers, offering turnkey solutions that increase your billable time, all the while improving retention.

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There are several compliance standards for federal and defense cybersecurity. CMMC, FedRAMP, the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and the Risk Management Framework (RMF) all serve critical functions in protecting government IT systems and associated vendor products and services.

Behind all of these frameworks are crucial security publications, each one serving a particular purpose in defining the practices, controls and procedures that organizations can use to meet their compliance demands. We’ve previously covered such documents as NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171, showing how these documents play a role in national cyber defense.

In this article, we’ll discuss two more guidelines: Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199 and FIPS 200.

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The DoD recently released its framework for the next model in CMMC compliance and audits–CMMC 2.0. This revision is expected to streamline the compliance process and trim some of the extraneous requirements from the framework, helping contractors in the DoD supply chain better meet their requirements without introducing unnecessary challenges or redundancies. 

One of the more important aspects of CMMC certification is the inclusion of third-party audits. With the introduction of CMMC 2.0, these requirements have changed to make certification easier for contractors without sacrificing security. 

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