The State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) released a cybersecurity strategy Monday meant to address what the bureau’s chief called “technical debt” and to create a more proactive culture when it comes to finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
The strategy document focuses on what INR is doing to “strengthen the security of the department’s top secret computing environment and improve how we manage cyber risk.”
A key element of the strategy involves migrating to the cloud. The strategy document emphasizes the need to prioritize and leverage new technologies and “establish modern IT infrastructure, software, hardware, and systems.” The strategy also focuses on the need to deploy “real-time threat based security functions.”
“This is a comprehensive approach to shifting from a reactive cybersecurity posture to a proactive one where we’re constantly hunting for potential threats in our environment rather than just waiting for alerts to fire and then we’re investigating.”
Brett holmgren, assistant secretary of…
