Some details about the White House’s governmentwide Cybersecurity Implementation Plan dribbled out Wednesday ahead of the strategy’s official release, expected any day now.
An official with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget gave some details on the forthcoming plan, which will look to extend the Cybersecurity Sprint called for by federal CIO Tony Scott in the wake of the massive OPM hack and other data breaches across the federal government.
Chris DeRusha, a senior analyst with OMB’s Cyber and National Security Unit, called the plan a “broad, comprehensive document” that will give agencies an idea of what they can do to immediately improve their cybersecurity stance as well as what needs to implemented over the next six to 12 months.
“There is some strategic overlay of the direction we are headed, and some discussion on why we are headed that way, but this is an action plan,” DeRusha said during a meeting of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. For the full article click here
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