Federal Cybersecurity Best Practices Study: Information Security Continuous Monitoring

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Bruce Levinson

Center for Regulatory Effectiveness

Date Written: October 2011

Abstract

This study documents the successful work by NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) Security Team in thwarting the cybersecurity challenges posed by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). Through a combination of initiative and creativity by the NASA EOS Security Team and their use of sophisticated software for continuous monitoring which could adapt to changing needs on-the-fly, the team prevented the agency’s information system security from being breached following the highly publicized hack of RSA which compromised a key component of the agency’s protocol for authenticating users.

Keywords: FISMA, regulation, cybersecurity, continuous monitoring, Advanced Persistent Threat, NASA, best practices

Suggested Citation

Levinson, Bruce, Federal Cybersecurity Best Practices Study: Information Security Continuous Monitoring (October 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2708902

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