The Department of Homeland Security is solicity information regarding continuous monitoring capabilities. Specifically, DHS “is performing market research to determine industry interest and capabilities for information security continuous monitoring solutions.” The request for information is not a “request for proposal and in no way commits the Government to award a contract.”
DHS states that “Solutions must define and operate in a near real-time manner” and “must be capable of being implemented across a range of computing environments” including “geographically diverse networks” and “disconnected computing assets…that are disconnected from an agency’s enterprise even though the agency has to account for them (e.g. laptops, mobile devices)….”
The Request for Information also lists specific automated monitoring capabilities that are desired by the Department.
The RFI is attached below.
To state the obvious, continuous monitoring is nice but without a strong forensics ability you will only see part of the picture.