From: GovTech.com | digital communities
The Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cybersecurity programs have been hailed as the cornerstone of repelling cyberthreats in real-time — but it turns out this is not actually the case.
A massive cyberattack at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposed the personal information of as many as 4 million federal employees. Though this type of news is not unusual, this particular case is different given that a multi-billion-dollar federal civilian cyberdefense systems was hacked. The cyberdefense systems supposedly protecting the OPM are Department of Homeland Security programs known as Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) — and were hailed as the cornerstone of repelling cyberthreats in real time.
Unfortunately this is not actually the case, as it took five months to discover the intrusion — hackers hit the OPM in December, and the agency did not detect the intrusion until April. How bad the attack really was is still being analyzed.
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