From: FederalNewsRadio.com
By Stephanie Wasko
Special to Federal News Radio
Despite steps forward, agencies fell short of their 2014 targets for cybersecurity. The Obama administration is pushing chief information officers to focus on priorities of continuous monitoring, phishing and malware, and authorization processes for 2015, according to the newly released cross-agency priority goals on Performance.gov.
The administration continues encouraging agencies to implement information security continuous monitoring mitigation (ISCM), which continually evaluates agency cybersecurity processes and practices, according to the report. This goal carries over from last year, where agencies saw an increase in real-time awareness that enabled them to manage risks more effectively. Despite this improvement, the administration wants more cybersecurity evaluation.
“Moving forward, with the benefit of improved specificity and guidance, the meaningful measurement of continuous monitoring must include both the constituent capabilities specified by ISCM/CDM, but must also look at the degree of implementation and the alignment between policy, processes and tools,” the report states.
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