Xacta Classroom Training

Xacta 360 User Training

The Xacta 360 User Training Course is a three-day program providing a user perspective overview of Xacta 360. Professionals with a role in their organization’s Assessment and Authorization process (A&A) or other security assessment processes using Xacta 360 should attend.

The following topics are covered through lectures and extensive hands-on labs:

• Getting Started in Xacta 360: Navigation and common interface features of the application.
• The NIST RMF Workflow and the Workflow Approval Process Overview
• Categorize Information System: Collect and enter high-level data about your system such as system boundary, data types, and component groups.
• Select Security Controls: Choose the security regulations and applicable requirements for your system. Learn how to establish common control inheritance.
• Implement Security Controls: Import your equipment inventory and record the implementation status of your applicable controls.
• Assess Security Controls: Develop and review a test plan. Record test results and document risk analysis and POA&Ms.
• Authorize Information System: Publish and assemble the Authorization Package.  Record the authorization decision.
• Monitor Security Controls: Continuously monitor and document changes to your system during the authorization period.

Upcoming Class Schedule:

December 1 – 3, 2020 (Webinar)

To register for classes, please visit our registration page.

Xacta.io User Training Class

This one day course focuses on the general operation of Xacta.io. You will earn how Xacta.io ingests security data at scale for robust cyber risk situational awareness and management, as well as how it correlates results from third party security products into a single view and maps to the relevant IA controls for your system.

The following topics are covered through lectures and extensive hands-on labs:

• Getting Started: Introduction to Xacta.io application interface features and navigation techniques.
• Asset Management: Overview of importing system asset data collected from third party security products and the various functions available to manage your system asset inventory in Xacta.io.
• Vulnerability Management: How to analyze vulnerability and control compliance data imported from third party security products.
• io Dashboard: Overview of data visualization functionality present in the Xacta.io application allowing for real-time system asset and compliance monitoring.
• Working with Xacta 360: How Xacta 360 and Xacta.io integrate to share project and system data.

For legacy users of the Xacta Continuum application, we will continue to schedule training engagements approximately once a quarter. For our next scheduled Continuum class, please see our registration page.

Upcoming Class Schedule:

November 5, 2020 (Webinar)

To register for classes, please visit our registration page.