From: FederalNewsRadio.com
By Jared Serbu
For the first time ever, the Commerce Department is building a real-time view of its overall cybersecurity posture. And with that information, it’s taking on a greater oversight role over the 14 different agencies within its purview.
Commerce officials emphasized that the establishment of a new Enterprise Security Oversight Center (ESOC) is not meant to be a takeover of the IT functions that have traditionally been managed by bureaus with disparate missions, ranging from the Census Bureau to the National Weather Service to the Patent and Trademark Office. Rather, it’s a recognition that the push toward continuous diagnostics and mitigation in the government only works if everyone’s sharing information — and if each agency is on basically the same cybersecurity footing.
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