The Homeland Security Department is footing a potentially $6 billion bill to provide civilian agencies with the technology and expertise needed for near real-time threat detection, DHS officials said this week. The White House has demanded so-called continuous monitoring since 2010, but many agencies did not have the resources or know-how to initiate such surveillance.
Under the new five-year project, DHS, which is responsible for protecting civilian networks, will shoulder the financial burden to finish activating continuous monitoring governmentwide. More than 62 percent of the federal government, or 15 out of 24 major civilian agencies, do not have mature surveillance programs, according to internal watchdogs
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Homeland Security plans to split the job among at least five teams, each comprising multiple companies supplying an array of technologies and experts. Military, state and local agencies will be urged to purchase services from the same contract packages to protect dot-mil and municipal government computer systems, but Homeland Security will not cover those costs.
“DHS is responsible for securing unclassified networks for federal executive branch civilian departments and agencies” on the dot-gov domain, Homeland Security spokesman SY Lee said.
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Under the new five-year project, DHS, which is responsible for protecting civilian networks, will shoulder the financial burden to finish activating continuous monitoring governmentwide. More than 62 percent of the federal government, or 15 out of 24 major civilian agencies, do not have mature surveillance programs, according to internal watchdogs
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Homeland Security plans to split the job among at least five teams, each comprising multiple companies supplying an array of technologies and experts. Military, state and local agencies will be urged to purchase services from the same contract packages to protect dot-mil and municipal government computer systems, but Homeland Security will not cover those costs.
“DHS is responsible for securing unclassified networks for federal executive branch civilian departments and agencies” on the dot-gov domain, Homeland Security spokesman SY Lee said.
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