INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Reducing cyber risk with managed threat detection and response
As cyberattacks continue to grow in quantity and sophistication, agencies are struggling to keep up. The federal government experienced 28,581 cyber incidents in FY 2019. Adversaries are sharpening their tactics and carrying out more calculated and destructive attacks – including ransomware, espionage, politically motivated social engineering and intellectual property theft.
In May 2018, the Office of Management and Budget highlighted systemic cybersecurity risk management challenges across the federal government, finding that a majority of agencies lack visibility into what is happening on their network. OMB mandated that agencies submit an enterprise-level cybersecurity operations maturation plan, as well as complete plan for maturation or consolidation of security operations centers (SOC) or migration to SOC-as-a-service by September 2020.
Unfortunately, many…
