Continuous Monitoring Lessons from Government Trial & Error

In the world of federal government, the shift to continuous monitoring is not exactly optional. Agencies are being driven to evolve toward continuous monitoring by direction from the White House. While state and local agencies may not have such clear mandates to adopt continuous monitoring, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t stand to benefit from the practice.

So, the question is, what can IT leaders in other verticals learn from the fits and starts of their federal counterparts? Here are a couple of quick takeaways from implementing continuous monitoring that can be applied to other agencies:

  1. It enables top level management and key stakeholders to improve governance through ongoing evaluation of critical control factors.
  2. Implement early in the whole system development lifecycle or system engineering lifecycle. If you do that, continuous monitoring can reduce the cost involved in system and application maintenance.

For more information, listen to Venu Ayala, President of Zen Strategics LLC and Wallace Sann, Regional Vice President Systems Engineering and Federal CTO of Forescout discuss Laying the Foundation on Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation.