Advancing Federal cybersecurity: the CDM program turns 6

As the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) hits its 6th year in operation, a lot of important milestones have been achieved. Twenty of the xx-three CDM covered agencies under the CFO Act are on the federal cybersecurity dashboard, as well as iv smaller agencies not covered by the act. Looking forward, another xv smaller agencies should be on the CDM federal dashboard by the end of September.

That said, every civilian agency’s approach to the CDM is different and in that location accept been many important lessons learned, challenges navigated, and unique tactics deployed over the last 6 years.

To marker the sixth year of this journey, Forcepoint is hosting a
CDM Plan Insights and Trends Breakfast Roundtable
on Tuesday morning, October 2^nd
in Washington, D.C. We will be bringing together government leaders from a range of agencies to discuss, collaborate, and share trends and insights most the CDM program.

We will also collectively preview the results from a recent Marketplace Connections survey of civilian agencies to better understand the current pulse on CDM. The survey dives into where agencies believe there is room for improvement, the specific challenges agencies have faced in adopting CDM, and what challenges agencies believe CDM will help them solve.

The event will as well include a peer-to-peer interactive panel where attendees tin can hear straight from bureau leaders on their arroyo to CDM, best practices, pain points, and more.

Bank check out the program agenda below and annals hither. Space is limited – I’m looking forward to seeing y’all there.

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CDM Insights and Trends Breakfast Agenda | x.2.18

• seven:00-8:00 AM – Networking/Breakfast

• 8:00–8:20 AM – Sanjay Gupta, SBA CTO – The CDM program has evolved over the years to offer government agencies more flexibility in acquiring security tools. The Small Business concern Administration’south approach to CDM has been chosen unorthodox, and the agency’s CTO Sanjay Gupta will provide insights on why SBA challenged the condition quo and took a slight departure from CDM’s initial guidelines. He will share SBA’south CDM process, lessons learned, and best practices for other agencies equally they pattern (or redesign) their CDM arroyo.

• eight:xx–8:45 AM – Marketplace Connections Presents CDM Survey Findings– CDM recently marked its 5^thursday
  yr in performance. In response to this milestone, Forcepoint and Market Connections surveyed agency leaders to meliorate understand their perspectives on the rollout of the program and their viewpoints on the future of the programme. The initial survey results will be presented and discussed to provide greater insight on how government agencies view the success of the CDM program and so far.

• 8:45–nine:00 AM – Forcepoint Solutions for CDM – Forcepoint’s approach to CDM is unique. Eric Trexler volition share why agencies should consider a human-centric approach focused on the intersection of people, data, and networks as well as the top five things that agencies should look for in a CDM vendor.

• ix:00–10:00 AM – Peer-to-Peer Console with Q&A – Because every agency’s CDM approach is different, this interactive panel will allow attendees to hear directly from agency leaders on their approach to CDM, all-time practices, hurting points, etc.

• 10:00-eleven:00 AM – General Networking