House panel evaluates progress of CISA shared services to improve network visibility, security

The House Homeland Security cyber subcommittee heard from industry stakeholders involved in CISA’s continuous diagnostics and mitigation program and the EINSTEIN initiative during a Tuesday panel session.

“CDM provides tools to agencies to defend their networks, which feed data into dashboards to allow agencies to monitor their real-time network security. Conceptually, those agency-specific dashboards send data to a federal government-wide dashboard that CISA uses to monitor the state of FCEB cybersecurity. The current model provides two years of CISA sourced...