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Security & Compliance

Cybersecurity Program

Our program is built around a simple expectation: know what you run, control who can reach it, watch what happens, and be able to recover. These areas describe how that expectation is operationalized.

Program structure

Governance and control areas

Each area is documented internally, assigned an owner, and reviewed on a recurring cadence.

Security Leadership

Security accountability sits with company leadership rather than a single project team. Program ownership, policy approval, and risk acceptance are explicit responsibilities.

  • Named owner for the security program
  • Policy approval and exception authority defined
  • Security objectives reviewed with business objectives
  • Escalation path defined for security events

Risk Management

Risk decisions are recorded rather than implied. Identified risks are assessed for impact and likelihood, assigned an owner, and tracked to mitigation, transfer, or documented acceptance.

  • Risk register maintained internally
  • Impact and likelihood rating applied consistently
  • Treatment decisions documented with an owner
  • Risk review performed on a recurring cadence

Continuous Improvement

The program is designed to mature over time. Findings from reviews, testing, incidents, and customer assessments feed back into policy and engineering practice.

  • Post-review and post-incident improvement actions
  • Roadmap items tracked to completion
  • Framework alignment reassessed as guidance evolves
  • Customer and prime contractor feedback incorporated

Employee Awareness

Everyone with access to systems or customer information receives security expectations at onboarding and on a recurring basis.

  • Security awareness at onboarding
  • Recurring refresher topics
  • Phishing and social engineering awareness
  • Acceptable use acknowledgement

Security Reviews

Changes with security relevance receive review before release, and the environment is reviewed periodically independent of change activity.

  • Design review for security-relevant changes
  • Pre-release review of authentication and data handling
  • Periodic configuration and access review
  • Dependency and patch posture review

Policy Management

Policies are written, versioned, assigned an owner, and reviewed on a defined frequency. Summaries of the policy set are published in the policy library.

  • Versioned policy set with named owners
  • Defined review frequency per policy
  • Documented exception handling
  • Public summaries; full text available under NDA or contract

Security Lifecycle

Security is applied across the full lifecycle of a system: requirements, design, build, test, deploy, operate, and decommission.

  • Security requirements captured with functional requirements
  • Threat modeling during design
  • Automated checks during build and deploy
  • Secure decommissioning and media sanitization

Security by Design

Controls are designed into systems rather than added after delivery. Default configurations favor the more restrictive option.

  • Secure defaults over post-hoc hardening
  • Sensitive data minimized at design time
  • Failure modes designed to deny rather than allow
  • Auditability designed into workflows

Zero Trust Principles

Practices are designed around zero trust concepts: no implicit trust based on network location, continuous verification, and explicit authorization for each request.

  • Authenticate and authorize every request
  • No implicit trust from network position
  • Strong identity as the primary control plane
  • Assume-breach posture in design decisions

Least Privilege

Accounts, services, and integrations receive the minimum access required to perform their function, for the shortest practical duration.

  • Role-based access assignment
  • Separation of administrative and daily-use accounts
  • Scoped service credentials
  • Periodic entitlement review and removal

Defense in Depth

No single control is treated as sufficient. Identity, network, application, data, and monitoring controls are layered so that one failure does not become a compromise.

  • Layered preventive and detective controls
  • Independent validation through testing
  • Segmentation between environments
  • Monitoring as a compensating control

Maturity

Where the program is heading

A phased view of program maturity. Future phases represent goals, not current status.

  1. Phase 1

    Status: Complete

    Baseline Security Program

    Establish the foundational control set expected of a small business handling federal information: identity, MFA, encryption, and least privilege.

    • Multi-factor authentication on administrative systems
    • Encryption in transit and at rest
    • Role-based access and account separation
    • FAR 52.204-21 basic safeguarding practices

  2. Phase 2

    Status: In Progress

    Documented Policies

    Convert practice into a versioned, owned, and reviewable policy library with published public summaries.

    • Policy library with owners and review dates
    • Public policy summaries
    • Exception handling process
    • Annual policy review cycle

  3. Phase 3

    Status: In Progress

    Internal Risk Assessments

    Perform structured self-assessment against NIST guidance and record the outcome in a maintained risk register.

    • NIST SP 800-171 self-assessment activity
    • Risk register with treatment decisions
    • Plan of action for identified gaps
    • Recurring reassessment cadence

  4. Phase 4

    Status: In Progress

    Vendor Risk Program

    Formalize vendor onboarding, tiering, and reassessment aligned to cyber supply chain risk management concepts.

    • Vendor inventory and criticality tiering
    • Pre-onboarding security evaluation
    • Recurring reassessment
    • Flow-down security requirements

  5. Phase 5

    Status: Planned

    Continuous Improvement

    Mature detection, testing, and evidence collection so control effectiveness is demonstrable, not asserted.

    • Expanded logging and alerting coverage
    • Recurring recovery and tabletop exercises
    • Independent security testing
    • Evidence repository for customer reviews

  6. Phase 6

    Status: Planned

    Future Certification Goals

    Pursue formal third-party validation when engagement requirements justify it. No certification or authorization is claimed today.

    • CMMC readiness assessment (roadmap item)
    • SOC 2 readiness evaluation (roadmap item)
    • ISO 27001 gap analysis (roadmap item)
    • FedRAMP pathway evaluation if a cloud offering requires it (roadmap item)

Roadmap items describe intended future activity. Items marked as roadmap or planned are not in place today and do not represent certification, authorization, or an assessment result.

IEP ALLY APP LLC does not hold FedRAMP authorization, SOC 2 attestation, ISO 27001 certification, or CMMC certification. Framework references describe familiarity and practice alignment only. They do not represent certification, authorization, endorsement, audit, or verified compliance status.

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