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It’s been a full year since the new administration issued its first cyber executive order, “Presidential Executive Order (EO) on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure” with an emphasis on lead… Continue reading The State of ICS: One Year Into the Cyber Executive Order
The White House Office of Management and Budget will be at the center of the Trump administration’s move to modernize and secure federal computer networks, the government’s senior-most IT official said Wednesday. The agency is at the hinge where several important IT initiatives meet the federal budgeting process, explained acting federal CIO Margie Graves. Not only does it help implement the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA, but it also has new tasks under the cybersecurity executive order signed recently. Under the EO, every federal agency or department has to conduct a risk assessment using the Cybersecurity Framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and then submit it to the OMB director and the Homeland Security secretary. That process, she told the Public Sector Innovation Summit presented by VMware, was the essential underpinning for both security and modernization efforts because it identifies the areas where investment is needed. It also had the added benefit […]
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The White House is putting the finishing touches on a new draft of the cybersecurity executive order originally scheduled for signature in January, and it could be done in a week or so, former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said Monday. “My sense is that they’re moving along and maybe within a week or so we could […]
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