Years ago, anti-virus software updates were sent on floppy disks in the U.S. Mail. Today, the attack surface is so large, we need continuous diagnosis and mitigation (CDM).

Legacy solutions like Security Information and Event Management (SEIM) would isolate data to point solutions. Andrew Manos suggests that if you consider today’s volume, the only way to handle is centralizing data.

Today, we have experts sit down and discuss how to take this CDM concept and deploy a solution for federal agencies. The discussion opens with best practices for a transition to CDM and follows with some guidance for the transition.

After gaining an understanding of what is on a network, it is recommended to start to experiment to evaluate rapidly innovative technologies. This process will need to have a workforce – more flexible than in the past.

Data surges have caused agencies to seek solutions to this vexing problem. One way to break this bottleneck is with the cloud. James Scobey observes the cloud allows data to be managed through an API that can go across environments.

Once a mature approach to CDM is viable, then advanced considerations like sharing data with other agencies can be considered.