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The cyber capabilities of adversaries continue to grow and industry is concerned that the government doesn\u2019t have the proper tools and technology be safe in cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several industry experts interviewed by Fifth Domain at Black Hat USA, a cybersecurity conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Aug. 3-8, expressed concern that government agencies don\u2019t know what\u2019s on their networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the needs on a large scale is to really understand the elements of the stack that are needed in order to perform full-scale cyber defense,\u201d Abdul Rahman, chief scientist at Fidelis Cybersecurity, told Fifth Domain Aug. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government, he said, needs more network visibility. Just last week, a report from the Office of Management and Budget revealed<\/a> that federal civilian agencies had 31,000 \u201ccyber incidents\u201d during the last fiscal year. And that report also revealed that the government wasn\u2019t able to identify how it was attacked in nearly 27 percent of incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir sensors don\u2019t give them good enough visibility \u2026 into where the problems are in their network,” Rahman said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know because you don\u2019t know your terrain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahman also warned of \u201cvendor bloat,\u201d meaning an agency has so many different vendor products in the environment that employees lose track of where important tools like sensors sit on their network because it may not be \u201cproperly documented\u201d amidst staff changes or contractor projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Kennedy, chief information security officer at AttackIQ and former Treasury and Marines cyber official, told Fifth Domain Aug. 7 that even if the government had better visibility, they still may not know if all their technology on the network was configured correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithin all that investment, do they have a way to actually know if the configuration is good?\u201d said Kennedy, suggesting government invest in continuous security evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another problem hurting the government is poor communication within security teams, Rahman said. He said the structure of agency cyber teams need to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe network teams that manage the infrastructure \u2026 are not accountable or interact with the information security [or] cybersecurity teams,\u201d Rahman said. \u201cCybersecurity teams control the rules and the policies, but the hardware and the physical devices \u2014 and some of the policies \u2014 are controlled by the network teams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There aren\u2019t any incentives for the network teams to tell the cyber team when they\u2019ve placed a new component on a network that bypasses technology put on the network by the cybersecurity team, Rahman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo now, no one\u2019s really watching the traffic; it may seem the same, but the quality and the content of it is different,\u201d Rahman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other industry leaders told Fifth Domain that the government needs better vulnerability disclosure programs, which would allow hackers to alert the government to vulnerabilities within their system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey should mandate vulnerability disclosure programs for every federal agency, for every publicly listed company, and every company that holds consumer information,\u201d Marten Mickos, CEO of a white hat hacking company HackerOne, said Aug. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been at least some progress in the how the government views hackers. The Department of Defense and some of the military services are hiring ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImplementation of a vulnerability disclosure policy across the entire federal government literally as a starting point for the conversation around the fact that they are serving the public,\u201d said Casey Ellis, founder and CTO of Bugcrowd, another white hat hacking company, speaking to Fifth Domain Aug. 5. \u201cThe public is connected to the internet and if they see something, they should be able to say something,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at endpoint security company Carbon Blac, told Fifth Domain Aug. 6 that the federal government needs to do quarterly threat hunts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey need to invest in hunt teams that have the authority to mandate remediation across attack paths that have been deemed viable,\u201d said Kellermann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy said that the government needs to go beyond just cyber hunt teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not good enough,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cThe government needs to invest in better ways of evaluating [if] their cybersecurity strategy is effective. That means that they need to connect real adversarial emulation as a way to drive \u2018is the effectiveness of my program working?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has taken some good steps in the right direction over the past few years, said Dave Weinstein, chief security officer at Claroty, an operational technology security company. Weinstein cheered some measures that the government has taken around data security, like installing a federal chief information security officer, a position created in 2016 under the Obama administration. However, he did have one suggestion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first thing they need to do is to start to gain visibility into what operational technology assets they have and then go from there. It\u2019s kind of that whole other side of the house that is invisible to the agencies, so they need to wrap their heads around it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahman compared the current government cybersecurity posture to a medical examination that dances around the real pain point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to take an X-ray of everything above your torso but I\u2019m not going to do it in your midsection and I\u2019m going to do it below your knees. Well, hey, I\u2019m feeling a lot of pain in certain areas,\u201d Rahman said. \u201cIt\u2019s just like not being able to have visibility into areas that are important. You have to be able to see everything in order to say something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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