Continuous diagnostics and mitigation
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The time to move from contract award to full implementation under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program will force agencies to decide whether to spend money on new tools or wait for those coming from DHS.
August 24, 2015 -
The first iteration of the cybersecurity dashboard under the continuous diagnostics and monitoring is supposed to come out later this month. It will soon be one piece of the toolkit agencies can use to step up their cybersecurity game. Molly O'Neill is vice president for state and local government industry at CGI and former chief information officer at the Environmental Protection Agency. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the dashboard is the tool agency managers need to understand where they stand on security.
August 20, 2015 -
Homeland Security will give eight agencies a detailed look at the health of their networks and systems later this month. DHS will launch the first set of agency-wide dashboards under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program. In his biweekly feature, "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," executive editor Jason Miller writes about the agency's plans to get pick up the pace of continuous diagnostics and mitigation. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more.
August 17, 2015 -
The first iteration of the cybersecurity dashboard under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) is scheduled to be released this month.
August 17, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management's Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing system is offline now after the agency says it found a security vulnerability. The site will be offline for four to six weeks. OPM hasn't said the discovery came out of the 30-day cyber sprint called for by federal CIO Tony Scott. Karen Evans, executive director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge and former e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, is watching the agencies respond to Tony Scott's call. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose, how the OPM breach is changing the way agencies protect their data.
June 30, 2015 -
DHS says its program to scan federal networks for cyber threats should be mostly finished by the end of this fiscal year, but it still faces obstacles in implementation of EINSTEIN 3, which seeks to stop cyber attacks before they enter federal networks.
June 25, 2015 -
President Barack Obama said \"significant vulnerabilities\" exist and will continue to accelerate in government and private sector systems, unless changes are made.
June 08, 2015 -
HP Enterprise Services submitted a protest to the Government Accountability Office on March 9 of the $29 million award to Knowledge Consulting Group under task order 2.
April 03, 2015 -
Knowledge Consulting Group will implement tools and services from three vendors on the Homeland Security Department's network.
March 02, 2015 -
Andy Ozment, the assistant secretary of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications within the National Protections and Programs Directorate (NPPD), said the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) and Einstein 3A programs would be "gravely" affected if Congress doesn't pass DHS funding bill by Feb. 28.
February 20, 2015 -
Grant Schneider, a federal cybersecurity adviser within OMB, said the new E-Gov Cyber Unit will play a key role in how the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology analyzes agency progress in protecting their systems. DHS and GSA will award the second task order under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program in the coming weeks, which will provide integration services with tools and the agencywide dashboards.
February 12, 2015 -
John Streufert, the director of federal network resilience, has announced he will be moving on from the Homeland Security Department after more than three years. DHS to reorganize cybersecurity office to meet new legislative requirements under the 2014 FISMA update.
February 11, 2015 -
It's been a little over a year since Lockheed Martin opened the doors to its continuous diagnostics and mitigation lab. Since then, Lockheed has been conducting workshops with chief information security officers, security operations center managers, and cyber analysts. Vicki Schmanske is the vice president of IT and Security Solutions at Lockheed Martin. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, she explained the threat landscape and what the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program can do for agencies looking to secure their enterprise networks.
December 03, 2014 -
The Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program will send a draft baseline standard for FISMA high systems around the government for comment in the next month. Matt Goodrich, the acting director of the FedRAMP program, said the high-impact baseline would apply only to non-classified technology systems as characterized under the Federal Information Security Management Act.
November 28, 2014