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The agency is updating its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program to better reflect agencies' use of cloud and newly embraced zero trust security principles.
Michael Duffy, an associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Homeland Security Department, said meeting the recent Binding Operational Directive will be driven by the CDM program.
The Office of Management and Budget released the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidance with a focus on risk-based, data-drive decisions.
John Simms, the deputy branch chief of the Cybersecurity Assurance Branch in CISA, said all the guidance is helping agencies shift their cyber thinking away from the network and closer to the data.
CISA is directing agencies to address hundreds of known cyber exploits under a new process where the agency will regularly update a catalog of known vulnerabilities for priority patching.
Kevin Cox, the outgoing program manager of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program at CISA, said CISA has implemented the cyber dashboard at 13 CFO Act agencies and plans to provide it to all agencies later this year.
For the third year in a row, Congress isn't buying the White House's request nor Democrat lawmakers’ pleas for more money to help agencies move away from legacy systems more quickly.
Senate lawmakers want to add $40 million to the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program in fiscal 2021 for a total of $325 million.
Some challenges from the pandemic require new solutions. The pandemic has also come with its own unique workload for GAO.
Agencies early in the coronavirus pandemic scrambled to scale up their IT infrastructure to handle mandatory telework and enable secure access to networks remotely.
GAO's Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity Issues Vijay D'Souza had more information on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
In today's Federal Newscast, while many agencies are setting reopening dates in early to mid-June to bring an initial wave of employees back to the office, the Merit Systems Protection Board is waiting until the end of June.
Kevin Cox, CISA's CDM program manager, said the agency will establish the information exchange between agency dashboards and the new federal CDM dashboard in the second quarter of fiscal 2021.
Guy Cavallo, the deputy CIO at SBA, said the work under the CDM and TIC programs over the last two years is opening the door to pilot zero trust concepts and move away from the “hub and spoke” model for its network.