M-21-31 has established August 2022 as the target for Federal Agencies to demonstrate Event Logging Tier 1 (EL1) maturity, February 2023 for EL2, and August 2023 for achieving EL3 maturity. As currently defined, EL3 requires agencies to ensure that “logging requirements at all criticality levels are met.”
Commercial enterprises supporting Agencies should explore proactive compliance with M-21-31 as part of continuous efforts to mature risk management capabilities and compliance with current and emerging mandates such as CMMC, HIPAA, SOX, FedRAMP, and FISMA.
Qmulos enables Agencies to confidently achieve and demonstrate M-21-31 compliance on the timetable established by the Executive Order. Qmulos Q-Compliance and Q-Audit platforms offer broad out-of-the-box coverage of M-21-31 objectives, with user-friendly visualizations of control maturity, as well as technical evidence traceability and automated control validation.
Advanced cyber threats continue to evolve and impact the public sector. Accordingly, cybersecurity and risk management standards and mandates are expected to evolve over time, increasing the compliance overhead for those organizations that fail to implement…
