Ryan said NRO is applying the risk management framework to address not just supply chain challenges, but also ways to make it easier to get systems accredited and approved and add automation to ensure applications are continuously monitored. We are looking at what vulnerabilities are exploitable from where you sit on our network.
Patch those first and your score will go down. He said another key piece of this effort is ensuring configuration management processes are in place as part of the continuous monitoring effort. Sign up for our daily newsletters so you never miss a beat on all things federal. At DoD, the cybersecurity scorecard includes a capability to demonstrate current threats and vulnerabilities. AWARE uses basic measurements such as vulnerability management and configuration management, weighted by age and criticality.
NRO also is planning to add confidentiality, integrity and availability scores individually and as an aggregate to the heat map. Ryan said those scores will help NRO make better decisions about the state of a system.
We want to get people to get that hygiene better. We also will incorporate a kind of a credit score. How much credibility does the system have? The agents on the host are just adding up and the security stack on the boundary is second-to-none, but what results in that is the workforce being very frustrated with network performance. We have to partner with them to understand the problem and work with our engineering staff. NGA is conducting a review of its security architecture to identify overlapping tools, gaps and current and future requirements, especially as the agency moves more to the cloud.
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