From: FedTech
The Trump administration needs to work with Congress to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.
by John Landwehr
Data breaches pose one of the greatest threats to the federal government. As President Donald Trump acknowledged in his Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, the government needs to do much more to protect the nation’s data.
To do so, the president will need to work with Congress to transform the way the federal government thinks about directing cybersecurity investments. The ever-changing cybersecurity landscape requires federal agencies to evolve beyond merely protecting the network perimeter and hosts to implementing protections on the most essential level: the data.
How the Federal Government Can Better Protect Data
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