Open source software offers greater agility, flexibility and transparency to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. Now federal agencies are honing in on boosting security in an open-software world.
President Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order catalyzed government’s robust approach to cybersecurity and called for agencies to increase visibility into and detection of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats to agency networks.
“What the executive order does is it recognizes that fundamentally we are not going to make this space secure. What we are going to do is we’re going to make it defensible. And so we’re employing new policies and new ways of thinking about security so that you are no longer looking at just the perimeter. We are looking at everything inside that perimeter,” Director of Federal Cybersecurity at the Office of the National Cyber Director Phil Stupak said during GovCIO Media & Research’s Zero Trust event in October… Read the full article here.