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Information management needed to enhance cybersecurity

Learn more in today\'s cybersecurity update.

Federal News Network Staff

June 25, 2010 5:35 pm

1 min read

Cybersecurity Update – Tune in weekdays at 30 minutes past the hour for the latest cybersecurity news on The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris (6-10 a.m.) and DorobekInsider with Chris Dorobek (3-5 p.m.). Government Computer News reports, information management doesn’t require data dumps, but standards for tools that can analyze data. These new standards are helping to make cybersecurity more strategic and less tactical and reactive.

Under FISMA agencies are required to file an annual report about how they look at their IT systems. The law though doesn’t specify how they have to do that. And now continuous monitoring is becoming a buzz word attached to FISMA. But really is it? Eric Chabrow is the executive editor at Gov Info Security dot com. He talks with DorobekInsider about what continuous monitoring really is. (Read the full story.)

Check out all of Federal News Radio’s coverage of cybersecurity issues here.