Captioning performed by vitac through our cloudbased shared service platform, its a fed ramped cloud where we get the sensors out for those small and micro agencies and feed that data rather than into individual dashboards at their sites, feed it up into a fed ramped cloud where each agency has their multitenant dashboard. Thats been a great accomplishment for the program in terms of for the first time were getting near realtime visibility of those smaller micro agencies and helping them get the capabilities they need to protect their Critical Mission systems. One of the early wins for the program, once we were getting automated discovery capabilities out to the network, we were able to see on average across the federal government that there were 75 more assets than what were being reported up manually. So from that measurement we want to continue to build on that. Now we have all of this vulnerability information feeding up to the Agency Dashboard summarized up to the federal dashboar
The continuous diagnostics and Mitigation Program and what im going to talk to you today about is the importance of the cdm program continuous diagnostics and mitigation for federal cybersecurity. I want to set the stage in regards to where the cdm program originated around 2012. Many of these types of headlines were occurring and we see those today, as well. They continue to try to perform reconnaissance on our Government Networks, try to get to our Mission Critical and sensitive data. Really the importance of cdm is to help agencies combat that. What we want to do is help agencies and get in front of the adversary, get in front of the threat. And so, what we have done in the federal government, started out at dod with the cybersecurity architecture review there and now dodcar and we have it in the civilian side. The dotgov review and what this effort is about is to take a look at our government systems, Government Networks to understand how the adversary is looking at them. To unders
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What are we doing to protect god and from a planned protection, are you on schedule. So that is a big thing that came out in cyberspring activity that basically cios i was on the boat for reporting literally on a daily basis. Taking a look at who has a day of an tiny qquebec and why. What assets today have been why do they have it . Making sure folks that dont need it dont have it. So by telling scott and others if we need to address this in a timely fashion. Again, the third area dealt with the factor of authentication and accelerating now. Another one dealt with making sure if he does have a cbm in place as well as accelerating einstein. So the metrics that were put in place were in support of not only the program, but also the areas of priority identified as critical cybersecurity areas to address part of closing the loop. The third area is communication. Communications from a machine perspective making sure it is made available to departments and agencies through price breaks as we
Protection, and securitysecuri technologies will come to order. First of all, im sure speak for all of us here on the dais in expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events like the one yesterdayic really demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and evil, and hopefully will give us all a renewed sense of purpose today as we approach the task of the h day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of Homeland Security is Cybersecurity Mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. We are here to today, at the start of National Cybersecurity awareness month, to discuss what i believe is one of the defining Public Policy challenges of ouri generation, the cybersecurityy posture of the United States. We have seen cyberattacks hit practically every sector of our economy with devastating impact to both Government Agencies ande the private sector ali