Taskforce Tackles New IT Security Metrics

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1832

The Federal Chief Information Officers Council has established a
taskforce to develop new information security performance metrics that
focus on outcomes.

On the blog of the IT Dashboard, federal CIO Vivek Kundra and Navy CIO
Robert Carey and Justice CIO Vance Hitch (co-chairs of the council's
Information Security and Identity Management Committee) write that
approaches to cybersecurity must confront new realities as threats to
the nation's IT security evolve, adding:

"In order to meet the evolving challenges we now face, Federal
Information Security Management Act metrics need to be rationalized to
focus on outcomes over compliance. Doing so will enable new and
actionable insight into agencies' information and network security
postures, possible vulnerabilities and the ability to better protect
our federal systems."

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