The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to make it harder for applications to get on and stay on its network without the proper cyber controls. VA is making a cybersecurity gate a little bit higher. VA Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer Kurt DelBene said the agency is good at documenting the authority to operate, or ATO process, but they want to take a closer look at the systems in aggregate before granting the ATO. “We’re starting to focus on the most critical systems that we have at the VA. We are starting to look at each of them and figuring out what it would mean to be more rigorous in that approval process and we are in the early days,” DelBene said…
