At the end of August, reviews began on the organizational plans submitted by Federal cybersecurity stakeholders, in response to the May 11, 2017 Executive Order for Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure.
A critical action within EO 13800 was for federal cybersecurity stakeholders to produce target profiles, based on the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Security, that identify their cybersecurity gaps and plans to mitigate those gaps. Essentially, map a path from cybersecurity “as is” to cybersecurity “to be.”
