Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management
More Layers of Security Anticipated for Government Websites Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 10, 2021The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will take over the day-to-day management of the official .gov top-level domain in April, adding a greater emphasis on security for the domains used for government websites.
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Over the last 20 years, the .gov top-level domain has been managed by the General Services Administration, which supports many of the basic functions of federal government agencies. Over the years, the .gov domain has been used by the websites of each branch of the federal government as well as every state. Several hundred counties and cities, as well as tribes and territories, also use the .gov domain.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which former President Donald Trump signed into law in December 2020, includes a provision called the DOTGOV Act, which allows CISA to take over the management of the .gov domain because it's now considered part of the nation's critical infrastructure.
The shift of oversight to CISA is designed to pave the way to adding layers of secu ..
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