The White House Cybersecurity Coordinator should develop an “overarching federal...
The White House Cybersecurity Coordinator should develop an “overarching federal cybersecurity strategy” to address shortcomings in the current strategy, such as a lack of clearly defined guidelines on performance and agency accountability, the GAO said Thursday in a report: “Such…
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a strategy would provide a more effective framework for implementing cybersecurity activities and better ensure that such activities will lead to progress in cybersecurity.” The strategy should clarify how the Office of Management and Budget will oversee agencies’ implementation of requirements for effective risk management, as well as establish a “roadmap” to make improvements to cybersecurity challenge areas “where previous recommendations have not been fully addressed,” GAO said. Congress should also consider legislation that would more clearly define agency roles and responsibilities for implementing federal cybersecurity programs and protecting critical cyber assets, GAO said. The White House has said it doesn’t believe “another strategy document” would be beneficial, but GAO said such a document “that includes milestones and performance measures, cost and resources, roles and responsibilities, and linkage with other key strategy documents would provide a more effective framework for implementing cybersecurity activities” (http://xrl.us/bogzew). President Barack Obama this week signed a cybersecurity executive order (CD Feb 14 p1).