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A Big Welcome to Diligent Breadcrumb Home A Big Welcome to Diligent February 06, 2025 As a part of my job at Optiv + ClearShark, I am responsible for providing advisory and compliance related services. As such, I’m delighted to welcome Diligent to our partner family. I am excited about this partnership and what it may bring to our clients. Compliance, and especially federal compliance can be difficult, time-consuming, and an overall pain to do, and even harder to do right. Part of doing it right involves leveraging the right tools and embracing automated compliance monitoring where feasible. I’m excited about Diligent for several reasons. The first is that Diligent is a mature Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) cloud service, which allows federal agencies and government contractors alike to use without any complication of on-premises deployment. Unlike nearly all other GRC platforms, Diligent is not only FedRAMP Moderate authorized, but also DoD Impact Level 5 authorized. Diligent is explicitly authorized by DISA to handle all Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and have helped many defense contractors streamline compliance efforts for CMMC, 800-171, DFARS, and other federal and commercial security compliance requirements. This reduces, if not eliminates, the barriers to its use across the US Government and their contractor community. The most critical part of modern GRC platforms is the ability to automate the monitoring of compliance, and Diligent does this very well. It enables an organization to set up the controls once, and automate monitoring, significantly reducing the traditional workload associated with harassing stakeholder for the current status of control compliance, and the collection of the required evidence of compliance. This allows organizations to rapidly identify and address deviations in control compliance before they become serious. Diligent is much more than just a platform that supports automated monitoring of the controls. It supports an organization’s governance activities, risk and strategy development, audit and analytics, sustainability and diversity management, and even ethics compliance management. They have done an amazing job of packing the platform full of features that support a broad range of stakeholders, well beyond the traditional CISO GRC team. While my focus is federal cybersecurity compliance, I appreciate having a tool with a much broader appeal, as it truly increases the value of that investment, and allows an organization to bring all of their compliance activities under one platform. For more information on Diligent, please click here. If you are a federal agency or government contractor, please reach out to Optiv + ClearShark for more information. By: John Allison Sr. Director of Federal Advisory Services | Optiv + ClearShark John Allison spent 24 years in the Air Force, doing systems engineering, weapons research, program management, and intelligence analysis. He retired in 2015 and started his civilian career focusing on bringing to market compliant cloud solutions including DoD and FedRAMP offerings for both large companies and small startups. Throughout his career he's been called on as the technical and compliance expert and has a passion for bridging the gap between the Government's need for solutions and innovative non-traditional companies. Follow OptivLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/clearsharkFacebook: www.facebook.com/optivincYouTube: www.youtube.com/c/OptivIncBlog: www.optiv.com/explore-optiv-insights/blog About Optiv + ClearSharkTM Optiv + ClearShark is a cybersecurity and IT solutions provider focused exclusively on serving the U.S. federal government. From the data center, cloud and to the edge, we have decades of experience securing and modernizing federal agency data and infrastructure. Our world-class advisory and engineering team is comprised of mission-focused, results-driven subject-matter experts with deep technology and agency domain knowledge and security clearances. Part of Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, Optiv + ClearShark partners with federal agencies to advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs.
About Optiv + ClearSharkTM Optiv + ClearShark is a cybersecurity and IT solutions provider focused exclusively on serving the U.S. federal government. From the data center, cloud and to the edge, we have decades of experience securing and modernizing federal agency data and infrastructure. Our world-class advisory and engineering team is comprised of mission-focused, results-driven subject-matter experts with deep technology and agency domain knowledge and security clearances. Part of Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, Optiv + ClearShark partners with federal agencies to advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs.