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Kevin Cox is the Program Manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, within the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.
DHS says every major agency has implemented the dashboard under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
DHS issued an updated CDM supply chain risk management plan to help agencies be more confident in the cybersecurity products and services they are buying.
GSA and DHS opened up the special item number under the IT Schedule and issued the first task order under Allilant for the governmentwide cyber program.
As the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program enters its fourth year, the Homeland Security Department is considering how it can utilize the cloud for both agency and federal dashboards. DHS is expected the launch the federal dashboard later this summer.
Kevin Cox, the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program manager, said 11 agencies have dashboards in place and more are expected to come online in the next few months.
In our latest downloadable Expert Edition, Cyber: Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, you’ll learn from CDM Program Manager Kevin Cox how agencies are progressing with implementation of Phases 1 and 2; what to expect after the BPA expires in August 2018; and what that means for Phases 3 and 4.
The General Services Administration will create a new special item number under Schedule 70 for approved products under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program as part of the effort to add flexibility to the initiative.
On the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, the CIO Council and DHS are expected to issue a security baseline and reference architecture for mobile computing. The goal of the document is not to give agencies new requirements but to focus on those security standards that are mobile-centric.