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Contractor: CDM system is ready as agencies enter new phase of cyber accountability

By Charlie Mitchell / March 20, 2019

A key contractor says the continuous diagnostics and mitigation system run by DHS is fulfilling its mission and is ready for the next phase as agency leaders become more accountable for cybersecurity under a Trump executive order.

“The responsibility has always been there but the [2017] executive order added the word 'accountability,'” said Bill Rucker, president of the cyber firm Trustwave Government Solutions.

“Some government executives said, 'we've been doing this all along, we'll repackage it and present it'” under...


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