As an increasingly hostile threat landscape has made the limitations of perimeter-based IT defenses apparent, the federal government has shifted from a cybersecurity regime of periodic assessment of static controls to continuous monitoring of IT resources and activities. The goal is to ensure not only that regulatory requirements are being met, but that the enterprise is effectively defended.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program supports this shift with a suite of off-the-shelf products giving better real-time visibility into government networks and systems. And the right CDM tools can also help agencies actively hunt and eliminate threats in the network before they become breaches.
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