“Agencies likely have the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program on their minds as a result of the Office of Management and Budget’s November memo requiring they share cyber risk data to a new federal dashboard. Specifically, the memo notes, agencies are required to ‘report the status of their information security programs to OMB,’ with inspectors general conducting ‘annual independent assessments of those programs.’
What should an agency’s ‘information security program’ include? With agencies’ increased emphasis on big data throughout their operations, if the program does not include a strategy for big data and cloud security, it is incomplete.
Additionally, OMB expects agencies to certify their implementation of the CDM program’s Data Quality Management Plan and be ready to exchange data with the dashboard by the end of the 2021 fiscal year. Agencies will start that data exchange off on better footing when their information security program thoroughly considers the security of big data and the cloud. After all, it’s easier to measure security risks once the fundamental elements have been buttoned down…”
“Security risks related to big data have grown an order of magnitude over the last few years because the technology has become more common in agencies’ daily operations. The Cloud Security Alliance estimates that data volume is doubling every two years, and with that growth comes more cybersecurity risk…”
“Understanding an agency’s risk criteria, in compliance with OMB guidance, means federal IT professionals at all levels (but especially CIOs) must make sure their agencies’ security strategies are aligned with cloud-based technologies…” Read the full article here.
Source: Preparing for the CDM dashboard: Big data and the cloud – By Brent Hansen, February 22, 2021. GCN.
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