From: BankInfoSecurity
States, Local Governments Can Tap Into $6 Billion Program
By Eric Chabrow
John Streufert, the DHS director overseeing the rollout of a federal continuous diagnostic initiative to mitigate IT systems vulnerabilities, expects that many state and local governments will participate in the program.
Known as the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program, the Department of Homeland Security initiative offers agencies at all levels of government the ability to purchase discounted hardware, software and services to assess cybersecurity risks and present those risks in a continuously updated dashboard.
Congress has earmarked up to $6 billion over the next five years for governments at all levels to buy continuous monitoring and mitigation goods and services (see $6 Billion DHS IT Security Plan Advances).
“Word is beginning to move out to a number of states that this contract is available to make purchases of diagnostic tools,” Streufert, director of Federal Network Resilience within DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, says in the second of a two-part interview with Information Security Media Group.
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