U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Development (RD)

22nd Century provides programmatic cybersecurity engineering and compliance services across RD, delivering NIST RMF based Security Authorization support, continuous monitoring, POA&M management, and privacy assessments. 22nd Century authors security standards, KPIs, and dashboards, conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing using tools such as Nessus and AppSec, and implement continuous assessment processes and security artifacts to support ATO/recertification and system decommissioning. We assessed and modernized RD’s security infrastructure by designing and implementing a Zero Trust strategy that focused on Identity, Devices, Application Workload, Network Segmentation, and Data Protection. 22nd Century also develops enterprise security architecture inputs, privacy mapping and security authorization training to strengthen the agency security program.