Michael Duffy, associate director for capacity building at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program has enabled CISA and agencies to accelerate response to cyberthreats through sharing of data between CISA’s CDM Federal Dashboard and CDM Agency Dashboards.
Duffy wrote in a blog post published Friday that CDM Agency Dashboards work to visualize cyber risk data gathered from tools and sensors fielded within the agencies’ environments.
“Each Agency Dashboard shares data with our Federal Dashboard, giving CISA an integrated view of the dynamic state of the federal enterprise’s unclassified domain, positioning cyber operators across the federal government to more effectively collaborate when responding to a cyber threat,” he added.
In the piece, Duffy mentions CISA’s use of CDM capabilities to respond to two cyber events in July and the adoption of CDM dashboards by all 23 Chief Financial Officer Act agencies to share data on cyber risks.
“CDM is no longer a static effort to standardize agency capabilities and collect cybersecurity information, but rather the U.S. government’s cornerstone for proactive, coordinated, and agile cyber defense of the federal enterprise,” Duffy noted.
