Wednesday-Friday
December 3-5, 2025
Homewood Suites Herndon, VA
Date and Time
Wednesday-Friday December 3-5, 2025
8am – 5pm daily with multiple breaks including lunch break on your own
Location
Homewood Suites Fox Mill Room
13460 Sunrise Valley Drive Herndon, VA 20171
About the Event
Course Goal: The goal of this course is to provide knowledge and skills to ISSMs, ISSOs, ISSEs, and Assessors responsible for implementing and assessing security policies, practices, and technologies in accordance with Risk Management Framework, JSIG, IC, and DoD Guidance.
Objectives:
- Explore in detail the RMF steps – Step 0: Prepare through Step 6: Monitor.
- Explain individual, group, and organizational responsibilities in the RMF process.
- Through in-class exercises, get to know specific documents required for RMF.
- Discuss risk management concepts.
- Consider categorization key concepts.
- Develop a working knowledge of the Security Authorization Package and Bodies of Evidence.
- Explore Security and Privacy Controls, Control Baselines, Overlays, and Control Tailoring.
- Gain insight and discuss best practices for achieving ATO.
- List Security professional best practices and recurring tasks.
SF-182 Info – Section B – Training Course Data
1a. CyberAware Technologies PO Box 127 Hinton, WV 25951
1b. Homewood Suites 13460 Sunrise Valley Drive Herndon, VA 20171
1c. 443-718-0670
1d. info@cyberawaretech.com
1e. https://www.cyberawaretech.com/
1f. Ted Kula, Owner
2a. JSIG RMF Security Training
2b. RMF-DEC25
3. 2025-12-03
4. 2025-12-05
5. 24
20. (Skill Learning Objective text: Use or modify as needed) This training is essential to my role, as the JSIG has been deemed the DoD SAP collaborative implementation guidance for the Risk Management Framework. The JSIG provides critical guidance to assess and authorize SAP information systems that is foundational to the principle of reciprocity among the Services and Agencies.
Other fields are user-specific.
Hotel Amenities: Located in the DC area’s tech hub, easily accessible from I-66 and VA-28 (Dulles Toll Road), and walking distance to the Innovation Center Metro Station. Dulles International Airport (IAD) is less than 10 minutes away. The hotel offers complimentary full breakfast for overnight guests, indoor pool, exercise facility, self-serve laundry, free Wi-Fi, business center with printer available, digital key, connecting rooms, complimentary Dulles Airport shuttle, and free parking. The hotel is 100% smoke free.
Hotel sleeping rooms: We negotiated a special event rate of $149/night for a limited number of sleeping rooms. Call the hotel directly at 703-793-1700 before the cutoff 11/20/2025 and use the "JSIG Group Block" to make your reservation. The rooms are first-come, first-served, so make your reservation soon.
Hotel website: https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/wasdlhw-homewood-suites-dulles-intl-airport/
Local restaurants: Houlihan’s, Chicken Rico, Amphora Diner Deluxe, Potbelly, Chowrastha Indian Eatery, Chipotle Mexican Grille, Starbuck’s, Jackson’s Mighty Fine Foods, and many, many more. The Worldgate Centre is a 5-minute drive and has the following restaurants at a single location: A-Deli Italian Food, Anatolian Bistro, Charred, Cold Stone Creamery, Inchin’s Bamboo Garden, Kalpasi Indian Cuisine, Panera to You, Pho 2000 Restaurant, Pizza Twist, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Subway, Sushi Umi, Tara Thai, TEZ and TGI Fridays. There are also several business services available at Worldgate including FedEx and dry cleaners.
