GainSide: Your Trusted Partner for CJIS Compliance
Navigate CJIS Compliance with Confidence — Expert Guidance, Hands-On Support
Protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI) requires more than implementing cybersecurity tools. Organizations must maintain security controls, policies, processes, documentation, and ongoing practices that align with the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy.
GainSide simplifies the process with a high-touch, concierge approach—combining cybersecurity expertise, hands-on implementation, and personalized compliance support from assessment through ongoing readiness.
Protect CJI. Meet CJIS Requirements. Without the Headache.
For organizations that access, store, process, transmit, or support systems containing Criminal Justice Information, meeting CJIS Security Policy requirements is critical. The policy is designed to protect CJI throughout its lifecycle and applies broadly to individuals and organizations with access to CJI or supporting criminal justice services.
The challenge? CJIS compliance extends well beyond technology. Organizations need to address security controls, personnel, policies, access, documentation, incident response, and ongoing oversight.
GainSide changes that.
We deliver a white-glove, done-with-you approach that helps you understand your requirements, identify gaps, implement the appropriate safeguards, and maintain an environment designed for CJIS compliance.
Proven CJIS Expertise
GainSide helps organizations translate CJIS Security Policy requirements into practical cybersecurity and operational controls.
- Guidance aligned with the FBI CJIS Security Policy and applicable agency requirements
- Expertise across security policies, procedures, technical controls, and audit readiness
- Support protecting CJI throughout its lifecycle
- Practical security solutions designed around your organization’s environment and operational needs
The FBI describes the CJIS Security Policy as establishing minimum security requirements to provide an acceptable level of assurance that CJI and related sensitive information are protected.
White-Glove, End-to-End Service
We don’t just provide a checklist—we work alongside your team. GainSide delivers a high-touch compliance experience designed to turn CJIS requirements into actionable security practices.
- Dedicated compliance guidance throughout the process
- Hands-on implementation support for required security controls
- Customized roadmap based on your environment and responsibilities
- Policy and procedure development
- Evidence and documentation support
- Ongoing guidance to help maintain compliance as requirements and your environment evolve
Streamlined Path to CJIS Compliance
Our structured methodology helps remove uncertainty and gives your organization a clear path forward.
Gap Assessment
Evaluate your current technology, policies, processes, and safeguards against applicable CJIS requirements.
Remediation Planning
Create a prioritized roadmap for addressing identified security and compliance gaps.
Implementation Support
Put required technical and operational safeguards into practice with hands-on expert guidance.
Policies & Documentation
Develop and organize the policies, procedures, inventories, agreements, and supporting documentation necessary to demonstrate compliance.
Audit Readiness
Prepare your technology environment, documentation, evidence, and personnel for agency or CJIS-related compliance reviews. The FBI maintains audit programs specifically to evaluate compliance with requirements associated with access to CJIS systems and information.
FIPS-Compliant Encryption & Data Protection
Protecting Criminal Justice Information requires more than simply turning on encryption. CJIS requirements specify how CJI must be protected when transmitted or stored outside appropriately secured environments, including requirements for approved cryptographic protections. The current CJIS Security Policy requires FIPS 140-3 certified cryptographic modules or qualifying FIPS-validated encryption for specified uses, including protection of CJI in transit outside a physically secure location.
GainSide helps ensure your technology environment is configured to meet applicable CJIS and FIPS requirements, including:
- FIPS-Validated Encryption — Evaluate encryption technologies and cryptographic modules to ensure they meet applicable FIPS requirements for protecting CJI.
- Data in Transit Protection — Secure CJI as it moves across networks, remote connections, cloud services, and other environments outside physically secure locations.
- Data at Rest Protection — Assess and implement appropriate encryption for CJI stored on endpoints, servers, mobile devices, backups, and cloud platforms.
- Encryption Key Management — Establish controls governing who can access encryption keys and how keys are protected, managed, and maintained throughout their lifecycle. The FBI specifically emphasizes the importance of encryption-key control when CJI is stored in cloud environments. Law Enforcement
- Technology & Configuration Review — Verify that security products are not simply marketed as “FIPS compliant,” but that applicable cryptographic modules and configurations meet the required validation standards.
Built for Organizations That Handle Criminal Justice Information
GainSide understands that CJIS requirements can extend beyond law enforcement agencies themselves. The policy can apply to contractors, private entities, noncriminal justice agencies, and others that access CJI or operate in support of criminal justice services and information.
- Law enforcement and public safety organizations
- State and local government agencies
- Courts and criminal justice organizations
- Noncriminal justice agencies with authorized access to CJI
- Contractors and technology providers supporting CJIS environments
- Organizations providing managed technology or security services involving CJI
What Sets Us Apart
Concierge-Level Support
We operate as an extension of your team
Execution-Focused
We help implement the controls—not just tell you what’s missing.
Clarity & Transparency
Clear requirements, clear priorities, and no compliance guesswork.
Audit-Ready Outcomes
Build the documentation, evidence, and security practices needed to demonstrate compliance.
Outcomes You Can Expect
Reduced compliance risk
Identify and address gaps before they become findings.
Stronger Protection of CJI
Build cybersecurity controls designed to safeguard sensitive criminal justice information.
Clear Path to CJIS Compliance
Turn complex requirements into a prioritized, manageable roadmap.
Greater Audit Readiness
Maintain the documentation, evidence, policies, and controls needed to support compliance reviews.
Deliverable: A CJIS-Ready Security & Compliance Program
GainSide helps establish and document a program designed around the CJIS requirements applicable to your organization, including:
- CJIS gap and readiness assessment
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- Security policies and procedures
- Access control and identity-management safeguards
- CJI protection and encryption requirements
- Security awareness and personnel practices
- Incident response procedures
- Evidence and documentation preparation
- Ongoing compliance and security recommendations
Let's Simplify CJIS Compliance
CJIS compliance isn’t simply about passing an audit—it’s about protecting sensitive criminal justice information and maintaining the trust of the agencies and communities that depend on it.
With GainSide, you gain a cybersecurity and compliance partner that helps turn complex requirements into a practical, manageable security program.
