Editor’s Note: See, Achieving a Cyber-Reliant Infrastructure.
From: National Defense
In December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which mandates that the Defense Department implement continuous monitoring using cybersecurity tools in a measure to protect the nation’s information-technology infrastructure from malicious cyber attacks.
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Another element was “security configuration management.” Like patch management, thousands of out-of-the-box security configuration management policies were deployed to enforce the Defense Information Systems Agency’s security technical information guide controls, which continuously inspect devices for compliance, effectively automating many of the Defense Department’s auditing functions while providing compliance reporting with near real-time data.
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