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The Downside of Not Exhausting a $6 Billion Cyber Contract
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:20:41 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/06/downside-not-exhausting-6-billion-cyber-contract/87577/ By Aliya Sternstein Nextgov.com June 30, 2014Agencies are partially taking advantage of a huge bulk-price governmentwide deal to help automate network vulnerability-tracking and fix problems in real-time, according to federal officials.
If departments underutilize the arguably complex acquisition program, the upshot could be saving money on a potentially $6 billion contract.
But if agencies latch onto the five-year endeavor, they could save money elsewhere, by eliminating the hundreds of millions of dollars currently spent on audit paperwork and incident response, advocates say.
The so-called continuous diagnostics and mitigation project -- funded by the Homeland Security Department -- aims to supply all agencies with products to move from traditional three-year vulnerability checks to three-day fixes.
Parts of DHS itself are using established tools and also must wait for current network surveillance contracts to expire.
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