Federal agency chief information security officers (CISOs) told a Senate panel today that the security payoffs yielded by the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program are well worth the challenges that agencies have faced in implementing the program run by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Please join MeriTalk on Wednesday, May 12, at 9 a.m. at our CDM Central: The Age of Cyber Defenders virtual conference featuring keynote addresses from Federal CISO Chris DeRusha and CDM Program Manager Kevin Cox, along with Federal agency IT leaders and security industry experts.
The CDM program – along with the EINSTEIN intrusion detection and blocking program – are CISA’s two main programs that aim to protect Federal civilian networks. For Federal agencies, implementing CDM capabilities is a multi-year effort that includes foundational investments in network asset and user and access management infrastructure that then yield big gains in network security and data protection management.
The CDM program and its ability to better protect Federal civilian networks have taken on a higher…
