Homeland Security Wants To Make Most of Its Data
April 24, 2020
The US Department of Homeland Security gathers terabytes of data relating to national security. One of the department’s biggest quandaries is figuring out how to share that information across all law enforcement agencies. FedTech explains how Homeland Security discovered a solution in the article, “DHS’ CDM Program Focuses On Shared Services Dashboard.”
The project for sharing data is officially from the Department of Homeland Security and is called Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is a dashboard that gives IT leaders keener insights into cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how IT security compares to other agencies. From April 2020 to September 2020 (the end of the fiscal year), the Department of Homeland Security will pilot the dashboard. The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program uses Elasticsearch to power its enterprise search, metrics, and business analytics.
Kevin Cox is the manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Cox states that the program will be expanded beyond regular law enforcement agency:
“DHS is also focused on bringing in more agencies that were not originally participating in the CDM program, Cox tells Federal News Network. DHS needed to make sure they had asset management capabilities, awareness of the devices connected to their networks and identity and access management capabilities, according to Cox.
For 34 smaller, non-CFO Act agencies, DHS has provided them with a common shared service platform to serve as their CDM dashboard, although each small agency can see its own data individually as well, which is summarized in the larger federal dashboard.
Cox notes that this process has not been easy, and DHS benefits when it has flexibility to meet each individual agency’s cybersecurity data needs.”
One of the program’s goals is to see if the tool meets the desired requirements. Cox wants the data to be recorded, utilized on the dashboard, insights are found, and shared with agencies across the dashboard. It sounds like the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is a social media platform that specializes in cybersecurity threats.
Whitney Grace, April 24, 2020
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