Many organizations have experienced the negative effects of a security breach of their intellectual property or protected information. The ramifications of these events are significantly exacerbated when the information breach involves personal information about the organization’s employees or their customers, or information deemed critical to national security or national defense. The business cost of these breaches was estimated to be in excess of $45,000,000,000 ($45 billion).

Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-171 and 800-53 (NIST SP 800-171 & SP 800-53) as a foundation, this 2-day course focuses on the challenges every organization faces in protecting the security of their released information and their information technology systems. In today’s world of ever-expanding networks and digitized information, these challenges are becoming more complex and more significant every day.

This course will examine the fundamental changes that must take place within an organization and its processes. We will utilize specific fundamental principles of enterprise configuration management to enable the creation of powerful protocols that are needed to protect an organization’s information assets and business tools. Students successfully completing this course will obtain a strong foundation of these best practices and an understanding of what steps need to be taken next.

Although document control is an aged-old profession and is widely implemented in various activity sectors, most have difficulty defining it effectively. As digital solutions have advanced so have the capabilities and processes needed to ensure proper document security, analysis, control, and digital storage.

Contrary to common belief, a document does not have to exist in the form of paper or any other hard copy format. Regardless of the media and/or digital solution, your documents are the mechanism used to communicate all requirements and information within an organization.

Requirements or information once captured as a document are subject to the information and document management rules and processes of the organization. All product-related requirements, from the Application Requirements level down, must be properly documented. All administrative requirements, from the Business Regulations level down, must be properly documented.

The types of documents related to products will vary from organization to organization. Several factors will influence the types of documents required such as type of end deliverable, type of industry, applicable regulatory agency, etc. Regardless of the source of the document creation, all product-related documents must be managed through a standard Document Control process.

The SAE EIA-649, Standard for Configuration Management is a Configuration Management (CM) standard used by both governmental and private enterprises worldwide.

This standard provides the foundation of CM principles and graphic guidance used in regulated acquisition and enterprise environments.

This course will provide hands-on discussions and workshops related to the latest released EIA-649 principles and the associated best practices while giving real-world application methods.

Additionally, the session will discuss contemporary and advanced techniques for applying Configuration Management requirements and best practices within rapidly evolving digital design and manufacturing environments.

This three-day boot camp will facilitate detailed discussions and furnish examples integrated with foundational configuration principles outlined within EIA-649.