NIST SP 800-137

From: Federal Times

Aaron Boyd, Federal TImes

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Almost half of the $1.6 billion request will go toward DHS’s two major cybersecurity programs: $274.8 million for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program — a set of tools to identify threats on civilian networks and boot the bad actors — and $471.1 million for Einstein — a sophisticated firewall that, in its third generation, can block known malicious traffic at the ISP level.

Johnson told lawmakers the first phase of CDM — which gives agencies a view of all the assets on their networks — is now on 97 percent of federal systems and the second phase — which monitors and controls user access — will be on all civilian networks by the end of 2016.

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