Cyber Systems Development

Axient’s cyber systems capabilities include:

• System security engineering 
• Risk management 
• Penetration testing
• Vulnerability analyses
• Compliance
• Re-engineering
• Systems resiliency
• Certification and accreditation (C&A)
• All phases of system security
• Cyber strategies and policy
• Hardening and testing systems according to regulations
• Asset management/ protection
• Cybersecurity operating procedures
• System security plans
• Authority to operate documentation

Axient protects our nation’s most vital space and defense assets from cyber vulnerabilities including enterprise-level cybersecurity frameworks for managing and reducing risk in the delivery of vital national assets. Our cyber teams secure a complex space architecture system, an intricate and complex ground, air and sea infrastructure for command and control, and thousands of fielded devices to enable military and civilian customers around the globe to carry out their missions each and every day.

Our cyber expertise includes:

• Program security including personnel, industrial, operations, information, communications security, and physical security 
• Certification and accreditation of mission information systems
• Systems security engineering processes to develop enterprise-level cybersecurity frameworks for reducing risk in complex systems
• Cyber Risk Management to identify, analyze, document, and review on-going assessments
• Identification and analysis of cyber threats, probable attack vectors, and mission impacts
• Enterprise-level cyber test and evaluation activities
• Comprehensive cyber documentation capability including IT Security Management Plans, IT Security Plans, IT Software Plans, Identity, Credential, and Access Management Plans
• Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) and physical security penetration tests

Our IA expertise ensures the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of the most vital systems required for our National defense.  Our IA expertise evolves with the cyber threats to our nation and we meet those challenges with our processes for securing information systems and earning certification, accreditation, and authority to operate on critical military and space assets. 

Core competencies in Information Assurance:

• Expertise in managing processes for complex programs assessing and recommending network and software modifications to ensure low risk 
• ISSM expertise in local approval policy, audit and accountability policy, identification and authentication/access control policy, incident detection and response policy and procedures
• System Security Packages
• Assessment and authorization processes
• Authority packages including Authority to Operate (ATO), Initial Authority to Test (IATT), and Authority to Connect (ATC) packages
• Risk and vulnerability assessments
• Expertise in cybersecurity compliance including monitoring manual and automated technical controls