
Federal agencies are making progress toward achieving cyber security goals in three priority areas although overall, agencies are still short of meeting targeted metrics, the White House Office of Management Budget (OMB) said in a report last Friday.The metrics contained in the Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goals allow OMB to track how well agencies are complying with, and applying, standards set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.“The Cybersecurity CAP goal has already improved awareness of security practices, vulnerabilities,…