Kurt DelBene, the assistant secretary for the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said these new cyber gates is part of how VA is embracing a more well-rounded approach to their ATOs.
“What I found in VA so far is that we’re really good about doing the required procedures to get all the documentation together. But what we have an opportunity to do is have more of that last look of saying, if I look at everything in aggregate, do I feel good about the overall security of that system?” DelBene said in an interview with Federal News Network. “Or should I say ‘no, these are the three things that I actually don’t feel good about,’ and they can be three initiatives that we’ve got in terms of things like zero trust, for instance. As a result, we’re going to say, you’ve got to come back and a certain period of time, even if we grant the ATO now, it’s for a much shorter period of time, and we want these things remediated.” … Read the full article here.
