“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are improving data access and posture to mitigate cybersecurity risks, leaders said during an ATARC virtual event…”
“Bobby Miller, CISO at HHS’ Office of Inspector General, explained that one of the biggest challenges at his office is training the workforce to perform security analysis across different data sets, then transforming that data into actionable insights.
‘Moving forward, particularly as we start talking more about extended detection and response (XDR), I think behavioral analytics will become essential to provide that holistic view to security analysts — being able to look across devices, applications on your network — that’s going to be invaluable,’ Miller said…”
“Telemetry is the automated communication processes from multiple data sources. Telemetry data is used to improve customer experiences, monitor security, application health, quality and performance. Agencies are looking to leverage this data to improve incident response time.
‘Having that telemetry data is critical for your security analysts … Having the ability to have data at your fingertips, when you need it is essential,’ Miller said. ‘When you start talking about pulling these data sets together, being able to instantly respond to an incident and track it down, you have to have that data.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIST, HHS on Automating Data Collection for Cybersecurity – By Sarah Sybert, February 10, 2022. GovCIO.
