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CISA Gaining Increasing Visibility Into Federal Networks, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

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CISA Gaining Increasing Visibility Into Federal Networks, Official Says

Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

Federal civilian agencies are increasingly providing the data necessary through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) dashboards to provide awareness of cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, which in turn allows the agency to help its government partners lower cyber risks, a CISA official said on Tuesday. CISA is also successfully deploying endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools to federal civilian agency computers and servers, giving the agency the ability to routinely hunt for threats on these networks, “connect the dots,”…

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