http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/06/downside-not-exhausting-6-billion-cyber-contract/87577/
By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
June 30, 2014
Agencies are partially taking advantage of a huge bulk-price
governmentwide deal to help automate network vulnerability-tracking and
fix problems in real-time, according to federal officials.
If departments underutilize the arguably complex acquisition program, the
upshot could be saving money on a potentially $6 billion contract.
But if agencies latch onto the five-year endeavor, they could save money
elsewhere, by eliminating the hundreds of millions of dollars currently
spent on audit paperwork and incident response, advocates say.
The so-called continuous diagnostics and mitigation project -- funded by
the Homeland Security Department -- aims to supply all agencies with
products to move from traditional three-year vulnerability checks to
three-day fixes.
Parts of DHS itself are using established tools and also must wait for
current network surveillance contracts to expire.
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