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CJIS Compliance Oversight

CJIS compliance is not a once-a-year audit exercise. Municipal police departments must continuously protect Criminal Justice Information, monitor security activity, identify vulnerabilities, maintain required evidence and demonstrate that security controls remain effective.

Trestle Networks CJIS Compliance Oversight turns those requirements into an ongoing managed security and compliance program.

Rather than simply providing security tools or generating reports, Trestle combines continuous monitoring, security event analysis, vulnerability management, logging, evidence retention, remediation tracking and experienced technical oversight into one coordinated service.

The program can include:

  • inSight Security Monitoring — continuous endpoint and system security monitoring, threat detection, integrity monitoring and security-event investigation

  • inSight Vulnerability Management — recurring internal and external vulnerability assessment, risk prioritization, remediation tracking and verification

  • inSight Logging — centralized collection and long-term retention of security logs and configuration evidence

  • CJIS Control Mapping & Oversight — mapping Trestle-managed activities and evidence directly to applicable CJIS Security Policy controls

  • Remediation Management — documenting findings, assigning corrective actions, tracking progress and maintaining closure evidence

  • Recurring CJIS Reporting — management-level reporting on security posture, vulnerabilities, remediation activity, monitoring coverage and compliance status

  • Audit & Incident Support — hands-on support from our trusted US-based technical team

The result is a repeatable program that helps municipalities answer the questions that matter:

CJIS Security Policy 6.1 places substantial emphasis on continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, system inventory, audit records, security-event review and demonstrable security controls. Trestle's CJIS Compliance Oversight program is designed around that operational model.

ACT NOW. Move from point-in-time CJIS preparation to continuous, documented security oversight.

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Features

  • Security events occur continuously across endpoints, servers, directory services and applications. Collecting logs alone does not ensure that meaningful activity is identified and investigated.

    inSight Security Monitoring provides continuous security visibility across municipal systems and can include:

    • Authentication and account activity monitoring

    • Privileged-user activity

    • Suspicious processes, files and system behavior

    • File and configuration integrity monitoring

    • Malware and threat-indicator detection

    • Security configuration and policy monitoring

    • Correlation and prioritization of security events

    • Investigation and escalation of significant findings

    • Recurring security reporting and evidence retention

    This capability helps support CJIS controls associated with System Monitoring (SI-4), Audit Record Review and Analysis (AU-6), Account Management (AC-2), Identification and Authentication (IA), Configuration Management (CM), Incident Response (IR), and Continuous Monitoring (CA-7).

    The objective is not simply to collect security events.

    It is to know when something important is happening and maintain evidence that it was reviewed.

  • CJIS security oversight must also identify weaknesses before they become incidents.

    inSight Vulnerability Management provides a recurring process for identifying, prioritizing and tracking vulnerabilities across the municipal technology environment.

    The service can include:

    • Authenticated internal vulnerability scanning

    • Network infrastructure assessment

    • External attack-surface assessment

    • Identification of missing patches and vulnerable software

    • Detection of obsolete or unsupported systems

    • Asset discovery and inventory reconciliation

    • Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

    • Documented remediation assignments and target dates

    • Exception and compensating-control tracking

    • Rescanning and closure verification

    • Management-level vulnerability reporting

    This directly supports important CJIS control areas including:

    • RA-5 — Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning

    • RA-5(2) — Update Vulnerabilities to Be Scanned

    • RA-5(5) — Privileged Access

    • SI-2 — Flaw Remediation

    • CM-8 — System Component Inventory

    • CA-7 — Continuous Monitoring

    • RA-3 — Risk Assessment

    A scanner alone does not create a vulnerability management program.

    Trestle maintains the operational process around the technology: discover → assess → prioritize → assign → remediate → verify → document.

  • inSight Monitoring extends visibility into the network and infrastructure supporting CJIS operations.

    Trestle continuously monitors supported firewalls, switches, wireless infrastructure, servers, VPNs and other critical systems for conditions including:

    • Administrative logins and logoffs

    • Failed and unusual authentication activity

    • Configuration changes

    • Network and security-device health

    • VPN and remote-access status

    • Firewall and IPS/IDS security events

    • Critical service availability

    • Infrastructure performance

    • Device and service failures

    • Other customer-specific security and operational conditions

    This helps support controls including SI-4, AU-2, AU-6, IA-2, AC-2, AC-6, CM-3, CM-6, SC-7 and CA-7.

  • nSight Logging provides centralized collection and retention of security and configuration evidence from supported CJIS in-scope infrastructure.

    Sources can include:

    • Firewalls, switches and wireless infrastructure

    • Windows and Linux systems

    • Authentication and directory services

    • VPN and remote-access systems

    • IPS/IDS and other security services

    • Applications supporting CJIS workflows

    • Cloud and on-premises infrastructure

    Baseline service can include:

    • 366-day retention in US-based cloud storage

    • Structured, searchable log archives

    • Defined log-source inventory

    • Configuration backup and historical evidence

    • Documented retention periods and locations

    • Rapid retrieval for investigations and audits

    These capabilities help support CJIS requirements including AU-2, AU-4, AU-6, AU-7, AU-11, CM-2, CM-3, CM-6 and CA-7.

    Retention isn't simply storage.

    It is the ability to produce the right evidence when an auditor, investigator or security incident requires it.

  • You cannot reliably monitor, assess or protect systems you do not know exist.

    Trestle correlates information from available operational and security systems to help establish visibility across the environment.

    Sources may include:

    • Vulnerability assessment results

    • Active Directory

    • inSight Monitoring

    • Security monitoring platforms

    • Endpoint security systems

    • VMware and virtualization inventories

    • DHCP, ARP and network forwarding information

    • Firewall configurations

    • Existing municipal asset records

    This process can identify:

    • Unknown or unmanaged devices

    • Systems missing security monitoring

    • Systems not included in vulnerability assessments

    • Unsupported operating systems

    • Retired systems that remain connected

    • Gaps between documented and actual infrastructure

    This capability particularly supports CM-8 System Component Inventory, while improving the effectiveness of vulnerability management and continuous monitoring.

  • Item descriptioFinding a problem is only the beginning.

    Trestle maintains a structured process for documenting and tracking security and compliance findings through resolution.

    Depending on the service scope, findings can include:

    • Vulnerabilities

    • Missing security updates

    • Unsupported systems

    • Monitoring coverage gaps

    • Logging deficiencies

    • Configuration issues

    • Security events requiring follow-up

    • CJIS control gaps

    • Audit findings

    Remediation records can document the responsible party, recommended action, target date, current status, operational dependencies, exceptions, compensating controls and closure evidence.

    Where appropriate, corrective actions are validated through rescanning, monitoring data or other technical evidence.

    This creates a documented lifecycle:

    Identify → Assign → Remediate → Verify → Close

    and provides durable evidence that identified risks are being actively managed.n

  • Technology alone does not demonstrate CJIS compliance.

    Trestle maps managed security activities to applicable CJIS Security Policy 6.1 controls, providing a direct relationship between:

    CJIS Control → Security Requirement → Trestle Service → Operational Activity → Evidence

    Evidence maintained through the program can include:

    • System and asset inventories

    • Monitoring coverage

    • Log-source inventories

    • Vulnerability scan records

    • Vulnerability remediation records

    • Security-event review

    • Configuration-change history

    • Administrative-access activity

    • Retention records

    • Incident and escalation tickets

    • Exceptions and compensating controls

    • Verification and closure evidence

    • Periodic management reports

    This provides municipalities with something more valuable than a compliance checklist:

    evidence that security controls are actually being operated.

  • Item deAgency leadership should not have to interpret thousands of monitoring events, vulnerability findings and technical logs to understand its security posture.

    Trestle consolidates operational activity into recurring CJIS-focused reporting.

    Reports can include:

    • Executive security and compliance summary

    • CJIS control status

    • Monitoring coverage

    • Security events and significant findings

    • Vulnerability status and trends

    • Critical and high-risk vulnerabilities

    • Remediation progress

    • Outstanding and overdue corrective actions

    • Asset and scan coverage

    • Logging and evidence status

    • Exceptions and accepted risks

    • Recommended priorities

    • Changes since the previous reporting period

    Technical evidence remains available for administrators while concise reporting gives police leadership and municipal officials visibility into risk, progress and required decisions.scription

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