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CJIS Security Policy Working Group – Unsupported System Components

The CJIS Security Policy serves as a critical resource for criminal justice agencies by offering guidelines and best practices to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of Criminal Justice Information (CJI). It provides rigorous security requirements, policies, and controls that must be implemented to maintain the trust and reliability of those maintaining and accessing this information. The CJIS Security Policy incorporates executive orders, federal laws, FBI directives, the criminal justice community’s Advisory Policy Board (APB) recommendations, and nationally recognized guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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CJIS Security Policy Working Group – Identification and Authentication

In support of and collaboration with the FBI’s CJIS Division, the IJIS Institute constituted this Working Group to help address the complexity of the most recent updates to the CJIS Security Policy. Through collaboration of subject matter experts from public sector agencies, industry service providers, and supporting nonprofit organizations, these publications aim to provide template guidelines assisting agencies update their policies, procedures, and ultimately overall security measures. This publication specifically focuses on changes to the Awareness and Training sections of CJIS Security Policy version 5.9.2.

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Cyber Hygiene White Paper

Cyber hygiene refers to the steps to improve the online security of a system and maintain system health. Implementing cyber hygiene is to adopt a security-focused mindset and develop safeguards, processes, and procedures to protect systems from cybersecurity threats.

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CJIS Security Policy Working Group – Training and Awareness Companion Document

In support of collaboration with the FBI’s CJIS Division, the IJIS Institute constituted this Working Group to help address the complexity of the most recent updates to the CJIS Security Policy. Through the collaboration of subject matter experts from public sector agencies, industry service providers, and supporting nonprofit organizations, these publications aim to provide template guidelines assisting agencies update their policies, procedures, and ultimately overall security measures. This publication specifically focuses on changes to the Awareness and Training sections of CJIS Security Policy version 5.9.2.

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CJIS Security Policy Working Group Preamble

The CJIS Security Policy serves as a critical resource for criminal justice agencies by offering guidelines and best practices to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of Criminal Justice Information (CJI).

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IJIS Cloud Computing Primer for Judges

In the past few years, the court system has had an explosion of interest in cloud computing. Across the nation, court Information Technology (IT) managers are wrestling with policy challenges – should they move IT services to the cloud, and if so, which services, when, and how?

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Pre-RFP Toolkit

The toolkit is a practical guide to pre-procurement readiness. The toolkit includes many original works, as well as tools and templates contributed by and borrowed formerly from the IWG, and currently from the IJIS Institute, and the IJIS Institute member organizations from jurisdictions across the country. The original toolkit was developed under the leadership of the IWG, which served as an advisory group to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on key issues related to justice information sharing, ranging from procurement reform to emerging technologies. All members of the original toolkit committee were volunteers, and each contributed numerous hours to the development of the first version of the toolkit.

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Top Trends in State and Local Government

Welcome to the “Top Trends in State and Local Government” video series with Microsoft, where we dive into the ways government institutions are adapting to a changing technological landscape, as well as what’s in store for 2023. Each video features an insightful discussion between a key industry opinion leader and a Microsoft expert. Watch all three episodes today!

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