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CISA orders agencies to conduct weekly scans of networks and digital assets

October 3, 2022

Via: FCW
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Federal agencies will soon be required to regularly scan their networks and digital assets for potential vulnerabilities – and report those findings to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – as part of a new binding operational directive.

Beginning in April 2023, all federal civilian executive branch agencies must conduct weekly automated asset discoveries and initiate vulnerability enumerations every 14 days. Agencies will also be required to provide automated results from their vulnerability enumeration scans every 72 hours into CISA’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Dashboard.

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