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GSA and DHS award a $276 million contract to CGI-Federal to modernize the current shared services platform and add new capabilities for small and micro agencies under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
In order to leverage all that CDM has to offer, federal agencies must be prepared to apply a more agile, risk-based approach to their cybersecurity strategies using actionable data.
In May, DHS awarded its new CDM dashboard contract which was intended to bring better scalability, performance, visualization and analytics to agencies.
Although the exact definitions of zero trust may vary, for the 16th Air Force that means breaking traditional relationships.
Kevin Cox, CDM program manager at DHS, said the dashboard will give agencies better visualization when it comes to operationalizing their data.
The Small Business Administration, over the past few years, has implemented CDM by migrating programs to the cloud and noticed some surprising cybersecurity possibilities in the process.
Smartphones are an integral part of how companies and the government do business today, but keeping them protected can be a challenge.
This constant monitoring of systems to catch bad actors provides the basis for CDM – Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation.
Lawmakers say they fear cybersecurity mitigation efforts are taking a backseat to the mounting pile of IT modernization initiatives ongoing at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
CISA's Jeanette Manfra said her office has talked with 50 agencies, cloud and network vendors and others to create guidance to help agencies more easily meet the Trusted Internet Connections requirements.
In today's Federal Newscast, new legislation from Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) would give agencies the authority to fire employees and contractors convicted or credibly found to have committed sexual assault while in government.
In the next stage of CDM, Dimina says, agencies will realize more value from the data they gather, analyzing for threat hunting and active cyber response.
SBA has leveraged data analytics tools to build out a cybersecurity dashboard that provides an around-the-clock look at every agency device that’s connected to its network.
Federal Chief Information Security Officer Grant Schneider, speaking Thursday at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s summit, said agencies have “come a long way” on cybersecurity. He pointed to overall higher Federal Information Security Management…