After awarding a contract in May for an updated, governmentwide cybersecurity dashboard, the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program plans to roll it out this fall, according to Kevin Cox, the CDM program manager.
The goal of the new dashboard is to give agency IT leaders greater awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how their IT security compares to that of other agencies.
“We already have a proof of concept underway in the lab environment of the new dashboard environment … starting in the first quarter of [fiscal year] 2020, in the October or November time frame, we’re going to begin bringing that technology out to a handful of agencies,” Cox said on Sept. 5 at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C., according to Fifth Domain.
Starting Oct. 1, agencies that have access to the new dashboard will be able to compare their cybersecurity risk scores, known as Agency-Wide Adaptive Risk Enumeration risk-scoring algorithm, or AWARE, FedScoop reports.
As FedScoop notes, AWARE “measures how agencies are doing on basic security practices like vulnerability, patch and configuration management in near…
