How DHS is following the Pentagon’s plan for internal cybersecurity
The Department of Homeland Security is trying to replicate a strategy used by the Department of Defense to protect and defend its networks, and the plan could soon be used across the entire federal government. DHS is currently assessing its 16 federated security operations centers (SOCs) to determine which agencies meet the parameters by which they could offer services to other agencies in need of various services, according to DHS Chief Information Security Officer Paul Beckman. “We are trying to figure out how we collectively get our arms around all those SOCs and how we optimize that,” Beckman told a crowd at the 2019 IT Modernization Summit, presented by FedScoop. Beckman said the process is following the DOD’s Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) model. That program assesses which internal security centers hit a number of benchmarks. When one center is qualified to provide a certain level of security, other internal agencies […]
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