{"id":15404,"date":"2018-08-23T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/08\/23\/ombs-cyber-report-should-start-the-race-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:40:06","slug":"ombs-cyber-report-should-start-the-race-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/opinions\/2018\/08\/23\/ombs-cyber-report-should-start-the-race-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"OMB\u2019s cyber report should start the race to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to cybersecurity problems within the government, I feel like Bill Murray in the movie \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m watching and listening to government officials have the same discussions of the same problems over and over, and making only incremental progress in addressing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May, I was hopeful that this endless repetition might stop when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Cybersecurity-Risk-Determination-Report-FINAL_May-2018-Release.pdf\">Federal Cybersecurity Risk Determination Report and Action Plan<\/a>. OMB said the plan \u201cpresents a high-level assessment of government cybersecurity risks, identifies actions to improve federal cybersecurity,\u201d and discusses the need for agencies to work together to \u201cidentify how to implement those actions.\u201d Mandated 12 months earlier by President Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal-networks-critical-infrastructure\/\">executive order on cybersecurity<\/a>, this \u201cRisk Report\u201d appears to be useful for those who are new to the issues discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the report isn\u2019t really news to those who have been toiling in the cyber trenches for years. In fact, much of it is a rehash of things we have known for at least 15 years, going back to the old FISMA scorecards, when the average agency score was a \u201cD.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The Same Discussions Year After Year<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite increased investments in things like continuous diagnostics and mitigation, information-sharing initiatives (ISACs and IASOs), threat-sharing (STIX and TAXI), and NIST\u2019s risk management framework and cyber security framework, the story has remained the same. We\u2019ve had discussions of the problems, lots of fanfare about initiatives, but little real progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To give an example, one of the risk report\u2019s recommendations was to \u201chold agency heads accountable for their organization\u2019s security and governance processes.\u201d But the president\u2019s May 2017 executive order on cybersecurity already clearly stated that agency heads will be held accountable for implementing risk management measures and processes. Despite this charge, the risk report points out that \u201c71 of 96 agencies (74 percent) participating in the risk assessment process have cybersecurity programs that are either at risk or high risk\u201d a full year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has anyone been held accountable for this? The federal government is spending its time observing and practically congratulating itself for recognizing the problems, rather than trying to understand the root causes and addressing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>We Know the Problems; Where Are the Solutions? <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To its credit, OMB\u2019s risk report correctly states that \u201ctwo of the most significant areas of risk that were identified in agency assessments were the abundance of legacy information technology, which is difficult and expensive to protect, as well as shortages of experienced and capable cybersecurity personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given this, it seems that rather than OMB\u2019s recommendation that agencies \u201ccontinue standardizing their IT offerings and cybersecurity capabilities,\u201d a more focused effort should be made to centralize and standardize IT infrastructure protection. This could be done by <a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.telos.com\/blog\/the-quest-for-continuous-ato\/\">relying on cloud providers<\/a> to do much of the heavy lifting (manage, maintain, and help secure facilities, systems and infrastructure), while users would still be responsible for things that they host in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standardization that cloud providers offer, along with shared security responsibility and economies of scale, will go a long way toward addressing the primary issues that were raised in the report \u2014 specifically, not having enough skilled workers and the complexity of existing systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s simply not enough to threaten to hold an agency head accountable. To be successful, we need agency officials who are empowered with the administrative and budgetary authority to make this happen by a specific date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The Race to the Cloud Needed to Start Yesterday<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an early proponent of the security of cloud computing, I am more convinced today than ever that the cloud can be more secure than allowing agencies to manage their own unique infrastructures, and that economic efficiencies from further cloud adoption will benefit the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am also convinced that now is the time for federal agencies to quit dragging their feet and actually make widespread migration to the cloud a reality. Let\u2019s not have this same conversation 15 years from now. Let\u2019s have government really do something big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America once pursued an ambitious race to the moon that led us places man had never been before. It\u2019s time to develop a similarly comprehensive \u201crace to the cloud\u201d initiative. That\u2019s the type of big thinking required to make our government\u2019s systems and data more secure, and to best serve the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Rick Tracy is senior vice president and chief security officer at <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telos.com\/\"><i>Telos Corporation.<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the cloud awaken the government from cyber Groundhog 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