How FDIC rebounded from major cyber incidents

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Two years after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation endured as many as six cyber incidents over the course of eight months, the changes in policies and procedures have demonstrated success.  But with cybersecurity, every chief information officer knows success is short lived.

This is why Howard Whyte, the FDIC CIO, brought in a third party expert to help develop a roadmap to further keep his agency’s data and network secure.

“We have taken action to address each and every one of those, I call, advisories provided to us. We continue to align ourselves with the cybersecurity framework maturity model. We are looking at where we are today and where do we want to be,” Whyte said on Ask the CIO. “We have taken action to deploy capabilities to detect data leakage, to detect malware. The list of things that are outlined as cyber threats we look to employ capabilities to ensure our folks are trained, we have processes to detect and also to recover.”

Howard Whyte (right), the FDIC’s chief information officer, tells Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller about a third party assessment of the agency’s cyber posture.

Whyte said these efforts are complimentary and…

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