From: CIO
One of the leaders of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program shares his strategy for deploying real-time security and situational awareness across the government.
WASHINGTON – As the federal government gradually moves to an always-on, cloud-centric IT operation, senior technology officials work to ensure that agencies’ security posture can keep pace.
The feds broadly have been trying to move beyond the days when security was a check-box, compliance-centered activity, and into an era of real-time monitoring of networks and systems.
The Department of Homeland Security and General Services Administration are formalizing that approach through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program, or CDM. Under that initiative, which is in the midst of a multi-stage rollout, the feds look to incorporate off-the-shelf commercial security tools that will extend sensors throughout their networks, automate the search for flaws, prioritize threats by severity, and relay information back to dashboards to improve situational awareness for security workers and enterprise leaders.
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