The Defense Department has unveiled a new framework for cyber risk management with a focus on automation, speed and the use of continuous monitoring. The Cybersecurity Risk Management Construct is “a transformative framework to deliver real-time cyber defense at operational speed,” according to a Sept. 24 Pentagon release announcing the new initiative. DOD says, “This five-phase construct ensures a hardened, verifiable, continuously monitored, and actively defended environment to ensure that U.S. warfighters maintain technological superiority against rapidly evolving and emerging...
