Simplifying CJIS Security Compliance with a Zero Trust Framework
The CJIS Security Policy and Data Sharing
At Certes, we understand the critical importance of securing Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) data in today’s law enforcement and government agencies. Access to these databases is essential, but it comes with a stringent requirement: strict adherence to the FBI’s CJIS Security Policy. Failure to comply can result in potential risks to your organization.
Agencies are subject to regular audits to verify CJIS Security Policy compliance. An audit failure can have serious consequences, with the FBI mandating corrective actions to rectify any issues.
One common audit failure stems from non-compliance with the requirement to encrypt CJI in transit. Specifically, the policy mandates the use of FIPS 140-2 certified encryption and a symmetric cipher key strength of at least 128 bits. Agencies often falter by either lacking encryption or employing non-certified methods.
The FIPS 140-2 certification requirement poses unique challenges for agencies, limiting their encryption options to a few common choices. These options include Layer 2 Ethernet-based encryption, Layer 3 IPSec, or purpose-built security appliances. Unfortunately, implementing these solutions often introduces significant complexities and pain points for IT departments.
Certes offers a solution that addresses these challenges head-on, ensuring seamless CJIS compliance while simplifying data security and management.
Certes’ FIPS 140-2 Certified Solution:
Zero Impact: Our solution seamlessly integrates with your existing network security, routing, monitoring, and analytical tools, ensuring there are no disruptions to your day-to-day data usage.
Network Connectivity: Certes is transparent to your existing system, requiring no architectural changes to your existing network. We protect your data while letting your network do what it does best – transporting it.
Micro-Segmentation: Certes allows for fine-grained control over data protection through encryption policies and packet filtering. This enables complete isolation of CJI traffic from other data, eliminating the need to encrypt everything.
Ownership & Control: We enforce separation of duties and Zero Trust principles, ensuring that encryption key ownership and management remain distinct from service management. Defined policy owners gain control and ownership of your data, regardless of the underlying infrastructure.
The CJIS Security Policy provides security requirements for any entity accessing information provided by the CJIS database
Compliance with the CJIS Security Policy is mandatory for any organization that handles Criminal Justice Information.
The purpose of the CJIS Security Policy is to provide a minimum set of security requirements that must be adopted by any U.S. government, criminal and law enforcement agency that accesses the services provided by the CJIS division database.
The security requirements ensure that the handling, storage and transmission of CJI is protected appropriately.
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