This agency is preparing to score its cyber risk with a new algorithm

FedScoop: The Department of Labor is integrating into its continuous monitoring dashboard a new algorithm that will measure the security of IT assets to help the agency address vulnerabilities over time.

Known as the Agency-Wide Adaptive Risk Enumeration, or AWARE, algorithm, the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program’s latest cybersecurity tool will have a soft rollout to all federal agencies Oct. 1 — the start of fiscal year 2020. The Department of Labor is already working with AWARE, said Scott Davis, the department’s deputy chief information security officer.

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