From: FCW
By Sean Lyngaas
The federal government has gone all in on continuous diagnostics and mitigation, a wide-ranging and ambitious program to guard agency networks against cyber threats. Run by the Department of Homeland Security, the program aims to address 15 types of continuous diagnostics and pairs a dedicated acquisition vehicle with expert guidance and even DHS dollars for agencies seeking to improve their monitoring.
The first phase, which focuses on endpoint device security, has drawn widespread agency interest, and network managers who have implemented CDM have said the system of dashboards provides a revealing view of vulnerabilities — many of which had gone unnoticed under previous monitoring regimes.
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