CDM Industry Players Optimistic as Program, Cyber Threat Grow

CDM Industry Players Optimistic as Program, Cyber Threat Grow - MeriTalk

Sep 17, 2019 02:00 pm Cyber Security 206

A sampling of many of the most important private-sector players supplying technology and services through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program reveals optimism about the pace of Federal agency implementation of the program.

Industry comments also show readiness to meet demand for more advanced CDM capabilities, and certainty that persistent security threats will drive agency deployment rates higher in the near term.

Across the responses of nine industry players – Tenable, Zscaler, Splunk, Forcepoint, Forescout, Broadcom, ManTech, RedSeal, and Trustwave – to a MeriTalk inquiry about the state of the CDM Program seven years after the program’s launch, several forward-looking themes emerged:

Agency demand for CDM products and services is strong;

The ever-increasing cybersecurity threat continues to drive CDM deployment urgency at DHS and the agency level;

DEFEND and RFS processes are helping to speed deployments;

Agency migrations to cloud services are changing program dynamics, and the program needs to evolve in step with technological advancements;

Agency progress past asset and user identification capabilities is key to the next big pay-off in program effectiveness; and

Having the right workforce is as important as having the right security tools in place.

These and similar themes will be touchpoints for expert discussion at MeriTalk’s CDM Central

Conference on October 10, followed by MeriTalk’s Cyber Smoke Federal IT networking event.

We asked the industry players: “The CDM program has a long arc – began in 2012, and with current contracts extending out at least six years – that’s a 13-year journey at a minimum. How is the state of the market, and agency demand for the ind ..

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