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New Cyber Tools Are Giving Agencies More Awareness Of Network Vulnerabilities

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

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Federal agencies that have been deploying tools and other systems to better understand the network assets they have are now in a position to more quickly identify and patch flaws, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on June 21.The deployment of the Phase one tools of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program combined with new dashboards that make sense of the data being collected are letting agencies know what’s on their networks, and run reports to immediately…

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