“The new director is really in favor of the ’without notice’ security reviews… you know, where the DCSA Rep just shows up at your office to review every- thing? He wants us to do some of those soon.” This was an actual comment at my most recent in-person Security Review by the DCSA Rep this … Read more
Here are 22 tips to have a great security program in 2022! For an added bonus – we provided a one-page “FSO Action Planner” so you can plug important actions into your new year planner and to do your best work. Download the FSO Action Planner 2021 was a challenging year for FSOs… There were … Read more
Download our End Of Year Checklist There is only one month until 2022 (Is it just me or did this year go by very fast?). It was a year with TONS of changes—DISS, new CFR instead of NISPOM, new self-inspection, new Security Reviews…so many changes and challenges. I say let’s wrap up this challenging year … Read more
What should FSOs be doing this month? Get all the resources from FSO PRO for the new Reviews! Log in to your NISS & DISS accounts. Ask FSO PRO your DISS questions! Make sure you have completed the new “Self-Inspection” and uploaded it to NISS before the end of the year. Make sure you have … Read more
If you live in the South, Sweatember is leading into Hotober… the temperature doesn’t shift as much as it should, but the leaves get prettier! Changes for the FSO are better this month! DCSA, the agency formerly known as DSS, has launched all their new products for the Federal Rule, the new Self-Inspection, the new … Read more
It Must Be September! When we first got into helping FSOs man- age their day-to-day FSO tasks, administration, and goals, I used to worry and say “If the government ever de-regulates this industry, I guess we will have to go into a different business. “ Ah…that was cute. I think we can all agree at … Read more
It is time to start using DISS more & FSO PRO is here to help! Maybe you don’t attend as many Continuous Monitoring meetings as we do (do I whine about that too much?), but DCSA is still making it pretty clear they want FSOs to start learning the requirements of the new Federal Rule … Read more
True story: Once, we were contacted by our DCSA Representative out of the blue. She sent us an email on Wednesday wanting a “quick, 20 -minute ‘Advise & Assist’ call this Thursday”. She offered no list of information to review, just made it sound like a nice “howya-doing, friend?” chat was going to happen. Don’t … Read more
One of my earliest memories as an FSO was JUST completing my FSO Training. (This was back when it was in a binder with modules and the quizzes were done with a pen- cil. I’m old. Shut up.) My boss brought me the NISPOM, which was a 4-inch thick book back then and said, “Okay, … Read more
Learning to use DISS has been interesting—in that pull your hair out, shake your fist to the sky kind of way! By now, you have all (hopefully) completed your NISS PSI Survey and started using DISS. You, like us, have probably found that there is a lot of clean up to do. If that is … Read more