The new Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy that the Office of Management and Budget released in September was step one to reducing the burden of using cloud services.
The Department of Homeland Security is getting ready to give agencies the second step in this process.
Jeanette Manfra, the assistant director of cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency DHS, said as part of this evolution for how agencies can secure their internet connections, her agency will soon release a TIC document catalog.
“This will help agencies understand what is being protected, where the protections take place and how they will be implemented. If you remove that specific everybody goes through a physical TIC access point, and we place our sensors there and then you broaden that, we needed to broaden the way we talk to agencies about that policy,” Manfra said on Ask the CIO. “We had a bunch of interagency working groups. We’ve talked to over 50 agencies. We’ve talked with the Enterprise Infrastructure Solution (EIS) vendors. We’ve…
