CIO Council efforts to help agency managers secure their systems against threats that compromise data and services include these programs
CIO Council efforts to help agency managers secure their systems against
threats that compromise data and services include these programs:
* By the end of next year, produce guidelines to help agencies get a better
handle on risk management.
* Develop benchmarks to help agencies determine what security is adequate
for electronic services. The benchmarks will cover three primary areas:
Web-based information services, financial trans-actions with the public
and government/ industry procurement.
* Finalize a letter this month that asks agency CIOs to formally work
with the Federal Computer Incident Response Capability to exchange warning
and vulnerability information.
* At the end of this month, publish the first version of an information
tech-nology security assessment framework to help agencies gauge their progress.
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