From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500 AM
By Jason Miller
The success or failure of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program comes down to a simple premise: Will the right people in each agency use the data to solve their most pressing cyber threats immediately or will the information languish with the wrong people?
The Homeland Security Department is betting on the former by taking specific steps to ensure the right people have the right data to protect federal networks.
John Streufert, the director of federal network resilience at DHS, said one of the future task orders under the CDM program is to pair subject matter experts with agency chief information security officers and system administrators to ensure they understand and use the information from the network sensors and other cyber tools, including a dashboard, currently in the implementation stage.
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