Highground Cyber has identified three things that contribute to OSAs' struggle with setting scope
These things feed into one another in a negative feedback loop across time, making the effort of defining scope a frustrating sink of time and resources where any one of these issues is present.
Highground Cyber works top-down to solve the scope problem. We orient ourselves with your business by focusing on what you do, for whom you do it, and how you do it. We comb through the details, finding and examining the contracts you have with the federal government and its prime contractors. We interview the various business units who have a hand in delivering your goods and services under those contracts, bringing a certified expert's understanding of CUI to each conversation along with decades of business analyst experience. With these, we map all connections between your workflows and assets, which is foundational to setting scope. This process is the only escape from a circular scoping problem, and with it, we accurately capture the people, technologies, and facilities that comprise your CUI security domain.