The Energy Department's budget for security and safeguards, meaning protection against theft of nuclear material or information, is "not sufficient to implement the security posture requirements that appropriately respond to the September 11th attacks," the letter said.
RiskRecon can harvest that information, then measure and observe the vendor's security posture, giving each company an objective security score — something companies tend to struggle with when evaluating cloud vendors.
The U.S. government and the private industry are interconnected; this means that hackers can exploit a corporation's weak security posture as an access point to government information, making these attacks a very real threat to national security.
The government was looking to, among other things, "improve the cyber security posture of Canada's business community by enhancing information sharing and collaboration between the Government and private sector companies".
To determine the premium, they look at the scale of the business, the sensitive nature of the data it handles and stores and its overall security posture.
The future lies in analyzing this data to give security professionals a comprehensive view of their security posture.
"Pakistan is very good at playing a spoiler role in any of these kinds of conversations, and when they're excluded from the conversation or excluded from having the information after the fact, that's very frustrating for them because so much of this impacts their national security posture".
Take information security, which the G.A.O.
"Have I violated information security?" he asked.
Lastly we are focused on cybersecurity, creating a new real-time security posture.
"The department's security posture for tomorrow must be more agile and adaptive".
