The push to adopt continuous monitoring as a more advanced means for ensuring network security can only work if other network technologies are made secure, said a leading computer scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Agencies need to understand the underlying security issues, beyond what continuous monitoring can offer, because adversaries can take advantage of weaknesses to bring down network capabilities, said Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and fellow at NIST. Ross (pictured above, seated far left) made the remarks at the recent Symantec Government Symposium on government security practices. Keep reading →
Officials from the General Services Administration (GSA) said this week that the agency is preparing the next version of the federal government’s main cloud computing acquisition vehicle – the Infrastructure-as-a-Service Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) – as part of a broader effort to better position federal agencies to take advantage of the growing number of commercial cloud services.