Cybersecurity experts say the government needs to address gaps in its IT systems and workforce to strengthen its defenses against data breaches, threats that are now a part of everyday federal operations.
The Homeland Security Department launched a new type of red team effort where they break into an agencies' networks over the next 90 days and help them make long-term, sustainable fixes.
New reports by the agency’s inspector general and a private company, called Security Scorecard, both highlight the space agency’s struggles around management and to control malware on their network.
Andrew Wasser, the associate dean in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management and the executive director of the CIO Institute, said 12-month classes try to align people, processes and technology to make sure the students can deal with the speed at which all three of these areas are changing.