From: GovTech Works
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The Trump administration’s twin priorities for federal information technology – improved cybersecurity and modernized federal systems – impose a natural tension: How to protect a federal architecture that is rapidly changing as agencies push more and more systems into the cloud.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program’s early phases focus on understanding what systems are connected to federal networks and who has access to those systems. The next phases – understanding network activity and protecting federal data itself – will pose stiffer challenges for program managers, chief information security officers and systems integrators developing CDM solutions.
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