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Einstein 3A Cyber System Covers Civilian Cabinet-Level Departments But Falls Short Of Covering All Agencies

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jeh Johnson announced Wednesday that as of the end of 2016 the EINSTEIN 3A Accelerated (E3A) cybersecurity defense system is providing coverage to all civilian cabinet-level departments and 45 federal departments and agencies. However, this falls short of a mandate by Congress, Johnson previously noted, that all federal civilian agencies avail themselves of the program by the end of 2016. The EINSTEIN program guards the perimeter of federal agency networks like a gateway and perimeter fence scanners.…

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