White House Details Plans to Beef Up Feds' Cybersecurity

A long-planned move to modernize the federal government's out-of-date cybersecurity practices became much clearer Friday, as the country's chief information officer outlined what the government is doing to stop cyberattacks in a blog post.

A 30-day "cybersecurity sprint," launched in the aftermath of the June the Office of Personnel Management data breach, helped kick things into gear, and now U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott writes in a blog post that more lasting changes are coming, NBC News reports.

The five-point list of objectives in the Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan addresses the main needs of large organizations under continuous threat of being hacked. But it won't be easy.

"Across the Federal Government, a broad surface area of legacy systems with thousands of different hardware and software configurations contains vulnerabilities and opportunities for exploitation," Scott wrote on whitehouse.gov.

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