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While everyone else is celebrating the holidays, someone will have to be on duty watching for cybersecurity threats. 2016 won't bring the end of the cyber threat, but it will see it morphing, along with the best ways to deal. Amit Yoran has been following the cyber threat for decades. Now the president of RSA, he joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a look at the cybersecurity trends part of the look-ahead to 2016.
RSA and Booz Allen Hamilton said they will jointly develop new information security products and offer them as managed services.
Bruce Levinson, with the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, joined the with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the center\'s recent survey on agency FISMA compliance.
Computer security firm RSA says it is only offering to replace about a third of its SecurID tokens, amid indications it could take months to swap them out for its entire user base.
The hack last month that compromised RSA\'s SecurID product resulted from a targeted advanced persistent threat that took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player, the company confirmed.
How bad is the hacking of RSA for the federal government? We ask CERIAS\'s Gene Spafford.
The hack attack that breached tools provided by RSA has affected federal users, but the Homeland Security Department is advising agencies, they don\'t need to replace the product.
Several cyber experts are not sold on how security around cloud computing will work. Some of the doubts come as GSA issues draft requirements for FedRAMP. Others say agencies likely will move to a private cloud first before trusting data to a public provider.
With so much at stake, what role, if any does the federal government play in protecting the .com Internet domain? Several experts offer some candid observations on what the government\'s role should be.
DHS also will make Randy Vickers the permanent head of U.S. CERT. Stempfley would become the first permanent NCSD director since 2007. The division\'s oversight of federal civilian networks is growing more important with Einstein and TIC initiative.