The acting manager of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is hailing quick progress that the program and Federal agencies have made in signing new agreements mandated by the Biden administration’s Cybersecurity Executive Order to share object-level network data with the CDM program, rather than the summary-level data that was previously required.
Speaking at MeriTalk’s Cyber Central: Defenders Unite virtual conference on October 28, CDM Acting Program Manager Richard Grabowski talked about the rapid progress already seen with agencies executing new memoranda of agreement (MOA) with the CDM program that will provide CISA with better abilities to hunt threats on and across Federal civilian networks.
The Cybersecurity Executive Order issued in May gave agencies 75 days to establish or update MOAs with CISA for the CDM program “to ensure object-level data, as defined in the MOA, are available and accessible to CISA, consistent with applicable law.”
Notably, for the CDM program, the Cybersecurity Executive Order directs Federal civilian agencies to speed efforts to install endpoint detection and…
